About this instructor:

Master Gifford started his martial arts career in Johnstown, NY with Sensei Campos in 1969. He established the first ZDK programs in N-NY (Ogdensburg, Massena, Malone, Canton) after college and eventually moved to Texas to work for Mobil Oil. Currently he is a full-time martial arts instructor with several clubs and several hundred students in the Houston area. He is the senior ranking instructor in the ZDK and, as such, is inheritor of the system.