OUR HISTORY 

Meet KJN Gary Nakahama, Founder of the West Coast Palo Alto School   

West Coast is the root our organization, where our association originated. It is home base. The name Word Martial Arts evolved from the fact that our style is a mixed martial arts system of self defense styles and techniques from all over the world. 

Through our association's reputation of producing some of the most famous Black Belt students, champions, and demonstration teams in the history of martial arts in America, we have had the opportunity to meet, share and learn from legendary masters, grand masters and world champions from all styles of martial arts.