DRAGONFEST Returns This Year!
If you are a martial arts enthusiast and were lucky enough to live in or around Santa Clarita or Burbank in the past fifteen years, chances are you got to share some pretty cool experiences, most notably, the annual Dragonfest convention hosted by actor and martial artist Gerald Okamura who since retired the event in 2004. This year, that all changes when Dragonfest makes its return to the public eye this month in Burbank, California, hosting a wide array of events that will not only explore martial arts as an entertainment venue, but also as a fundraiser for Burbank’s one and only Martial Arts History Museum, owned by fellow martial artist, founder and president Michael Matsuda. I got to share a few words with Matsuda on Thursday, who himself used to be a magazine writer, among other things, to learn more about what it was about martial arts that inspired […]