Local martial arts master achieves historic world's first

San Antonio consulting guru Winslow Swart, the highest ranking teacher of the Japanese martial art of kenseido outside of Japan, has become the only non-Japanese man in the world to attain seventh-degree, master-level rank in kenseido.

Swart achieved this following a weeklong examination in Japan where his skills and knowledge were put to the test by other masters of the discipline.

In addition to being the executive director at the Kenseido U.S. Headquarters Dojo, located in San Antonio, he is also head of Winslow Consulting.

As origionally reported in the Express-News, San Antonio is the only location inthe U.S. with professional kenseido training facilities.

There are only 130 practitioners of the art in U.S. and all of them are in San Antonio.

You can read more on more on Swart and kenseido here.