Master Keith Kelly is a 6th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo and a 1st Degree Black Belt in Doce Pares Eskrima. He has trained in the martial arts for thirty-five years. Master Kelly competed in aggressive point and Olympic style Taekwondo tournaments for fifteen years. He has won approximately 100 championships. When he retired he was an AAU Heavyweight National Taekwondo Champion. Master Kelly is a Special Education Teacher specializing in English in the Jersey City Public School System. He has run an after school and Saturday morning Taekwondo program in downtown Jersey City for the past eighteen years. As a testament to strength of his teaching, Master Kelly’s chief assistant Christian Latoja, has been with him from the very first class of the program.
