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<br><br>Name: '''Steve Sanders'''<br>aka: [[Steve Muhammad]]<br><br>Birth Name: [[Steve Sanders]]<br>Birth Place: Topeka, Kansas<br><br>Martial Arts Practiced: [[BKF Kenpo]]<br>Rank:10th Degree Black Belt<br><br>Notable Students: [[Lenny Ferguson]] - [[Sam Pace]] - [[Ernest Russel]] - [[Carl Scott]] - [[Frank Argelander]]<br><br>Occupation: Teacher, Author<br><br>HomePage: [http://www.stevemuhammad.org/ Steve Muhammad]<br>]]<br />
'''Steve Sanders''' aka Steve Muhammad (1944) Is an American martial artist, instructor and one of the four founding members of the [[Black Karate Federation]].<br />
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== Personal Life ==<br />
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Born [[Steve Sanders]] in [[Topeka]], [[Kansas]], 1944. Mr. Sanders has since changed his name as an adult to [[Steve Muhammad]]. As a youth he participated in school athletics, excelling in Baseball, Football, and Track. He received a Football Scholarship and attended [[Kansas State University]]. <br />
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Mr. Muhammad joined the [[United States Marines]], serving as a member of the [[Pathfinders]], an airborne paratrooper unit which operates as a small team, dropping into enemy territory to scout and prepare landing zones for large-scale paratroop and helicopter landings. He served a tour of duty in [[Okinawa]], where he trained in [[Goju-Ryu]] one of the “hard/soft” styles of Okinawan Karate, employing both hard and soft fighting techniques. <br />
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After completion of his tour he was stationed at [[Camp Pendleton]], Southern California. During this time he enrolled in Edmund Parker’s West Los Angeles school, earning the rank of [[Purple Belt]] before he was sent to [[Vietnam]]. When he returned from [[Vietnam]] at the completion of his military service, Mr. Muhammad resumed his training in [[Kenpo]] , and earned his first black belt under two of Edmund Parker’s black belt instructors, [[Dan Inosanto]] and [[Chuck Sullivan]].<br />
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Mr. Muhammad began competing in Martial Arts tournaments, winning his first title in 1965 at [[Azusa Pacific University]] in southern California. He became a member of the [[West Coast Karate Team]]. He went on to win a number of tournaments: <br />
[[International Lightweight Champion]], eight titles, [[California State Champion]], four titles, [[World Professional Champion]], three titles, and state titles [[New York]], [[Chicago]], and [[Salt Lake City]]. <br />
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During his competition years [[Steve Muhammad]] earned the reputation for having “the fastest hands in karate".<br />
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Towards the end of the 1960’s [[Steve Muhammad]] joined with other black martial artists often from different disciplines, training together at places like the [[West L.A. Karate Institute]], [[Teen Post]], [[Manchester Part]], and [[Manual Arts High School]]. Many of these martial artists would also meet at [[Van Ness Park]], and this became the foundation to what later developed into the [[Black Karate Federation]]. They called themselves The "[[Magnificent Seven]]"; [[Steve Muhammad]], [[Donnie Williams]], [[Curtis Pulliam]], [[Cliff Stewart]], [[Jerry Smith]], [[Ron Chapel]], and [[Karl Armelin]].<br>Steve Muhammad became the unifying factor, helping to bring all these martial artists together. In 1969, this core group formed the [[Black Karate Federation]] ([[BKF]]) and elected Mr. Muhammad as its first President. <br />
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==Instructors==<br />
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* Chuck Sullivan<br />
* Dan Inosanto<br />
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== Founders of the Black Karate Federation ==<br />
* [[Steve Sanders]]<br><br />
* [[Donnie Williams]]<br><br />
* [[Jerry Smith]]<br><br />
* [[Cliff Stewart]]<br><br />
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== Notable Students ==<br />
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* [[Lenny Ferguson]]<br/><br />
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* [[Sam Pace]]<br/><br />
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* [[Ernest “Mad Man” Russel]]<br/><br />
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* [[Carl Scott]]<br/><br />
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* [[Frank Argelander]]<br/><br />
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==References==<br />
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[http://www.kenponet.com/flame/whoswho/whoswho/steve_muhammad.html Steve (Sanders) Muhammad Bio]<br />
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gōjū-ryū Goju-Ryu Karate]</div>-gatekeeper-