Grand Master Burleson

Grand Master Troy Burleson has been training in Taekwon-Do since 1980 and began his teaching career in 1982 in Lead Hill, Arkansas. Since that time, he has founded over 20 schools or clubs in Arkansas and Missouri. He is a former Mayor of Diamond City, Arkansas, Justice of the Peace in Boone County, Arkansas, President of the Lead Hill School Board, law enforcement officer and security specialist.  He is President of Hard Target Security Resources, LLC and Owner of MiB Security Service.

Beginning in 1993, Master Burleson traveled with the USA-USTF National Taekwon-Do team as a team member and captain. He won gold medals at World and International Championships in Russia, Scotland, Italy, Canada and the USA. He has won over ten USTF, UTA and AMA National Championships and was the GTF World Champion in 2002 and won the Universal Martial Arts Hall of Fame World Championship in 2004. He has made two "Taekwondo cultural tours" of Korea and has trained in the Yong In University and also at the Kukkiwon in Seoul, Korea.

In 1995, he and Master Jason Wadley were selected to coach the USA-USTF junior teams. During the next five years, their teams never were beaten in international competition.

In 2004, he was inducted into the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame and the Universal Martial Arts Hall of Fame. In 2006, Master Burleson became the first elected President of the United States Taekwon-Do Federation and then went on to serve as the Executive Director of the United Taekwon-Do Foundation and the United States Taekwondo Alliance and is now the Executive Director and President of the American Martial Arts Alliance.