Our Instructors/Coaches/Staff Members
Our active Instructors/Coaches/Staff members have spent many years devoted to training in the martial arts and have attained a certain level of expertise to qualify them as teachers and also mentors.
Through extensive training, testing, certification and competition, our staff has attained a high skill level in combative martial art and now enjoy sharing their knowledge and passing it on to their students. Here are a few of Purple Dragon Studio's instructors and other staff members, starting with:
John McNabney 
Purple Dragon Studio Founder and Chief Instructor/2nd Generation JKD Instructor - John McNabney has spent many years training and learning martial arts. Not only just from the physical point of view, but from the mental and spiritually point as well.
"Having attained a certain level of understanding in my personal art and training with some of the worlds best martial art instructors. I now enjoy sharing my knowledge and experiences to my friends/students. I believe that we are all students of this thing we call life, we must learn from each and every day of our life by being in the moment of what is, to continue to grow from those experiences as well."
- John McNabney
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Sylvia McvNabney
Office Asst./ 3rd Rank JKD/ 3rd Level PDS Kickboxing
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Gino Iafrate
3rd Gen. JKD Instructor. Gino is also a Isado Instructor
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Eric Hughes
3rd Gen. JKD Instructor
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Aaron Liebowitz
JKD Coach
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Kevin Orzechowski
JKD Coach
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Kelley Gorman
Senior Instructor in PDS Kickboxing
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Elizabeth Brennan
3rd Deg. Black Belt Karate Instructor
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Vickie Marrs
2nd Deg. Black Belt Karate Instructor
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For more information about the Purple Dragon Studio staff or training programs, please contact us at 586-445-3525 or by
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