Shihan Tim Thompson is a Renshi 6th degree Black Belt Master Instructor in the Kyoshi Yamashita International Okinawan / Japanese Shorinryu Karate-Do System. His students and the Martial Arts community know him as “Sensei.” He has been in the Martial Arts for thirty years and was promoted to his present rank of RokuDan (6th Dan) on 24 February 1996 by Karate Master & Legend Tadashi Yamashita. He has also studied under Soke Kuniba and Shihan Herndon. He was promoted to 7^th Degree Black Belt in Goshinjitsu on 22 November 2003 by the O.M.A.A. He has trained & performed in numerous countries including Japan, England, Scotland, Okinawa, Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Norway, Germany, Egypt, Bahrain, Africa, Bahamas, Cuba, Caribbean Islands and through out the United States of America.

Shihan Tim Thompson is the Founder and Director of the Ryoshin-Kan Karate School, the Dragon Force Demo Team & the Dragon Force National Karate Team located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, both of which he established in 1980. Shihan Thompson has taught / shown thousands of Adults and Children in Shorinryu Karate-Do, Kobudo (Weapons) and Goshinjitsu (Advance Self-Defense). He is the creator of the very dynamic and realistic Ryoshin-Kan Goshinjitsu System. His School has produced numerous National and World champions. His demo team won 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 National Karate Championships. He has performed in over 1000 Karate Demos and in 1995 He directed & starred in the movie "The Adventures of Dragon Force." His Dragon Force Drum Corps, Color Guard, Ryoshin-Kan Float and Student Body won First Place out of 100 units in the 1998, 2000 and 2004 Virginia Strawberry Festival Parade. His Dragon Duet Team Pairs routine that he created and performs with, has won 2002, 2003 and 2004 Championships. He is a National & World Champion in Karate, Kobudo and Goshinjitsu. He was a member of the Legendary USA Karate Team that finished second in the world out of fifty countries in 1991 at Kyoto, Japan. He has won First Place in Black Belt Self-Defense at Martial Arts Championships in 1982, 1985 to 93, 1997- 2005. He won the Title & First Place in the Adult Black Belt Self-Defense Division and his Dragon Force National Team won the Demo Grand Championships at the 2001, 2002, 2003 & 2005 “WORLD CUP” Martial Arts Championships conducted in Washington, D.C. His Dragon Force Team is the First demo team to win this National Title three years in a row.

Shihan Tim Thompson was born in 1954 in Warrenton, Virginia and he graduated from Fauquier high School in 1973. He attended college at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and graduated from this famous institution in 1977 with a BA in History. He is a Retired Decorated Navy Commander and he served in the U.S. Navy for 26 Years. He was inducted into the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame in 1992 as “Instructor of the Year” and in 2000 as “Head Founder of the Dragon Force Karate Demo Team.” He was inducted into the 2000 World Karate Union Hall of Fame as “Master Instructor of the Year & Black Belt National Team of the Year.”  He was inducted into the WKU Hall of Fame in 2001 as the “Black Belt Goshinjitsu National Champion Team of the Year.” He was inducted into the 2002 World Black Belt Martial Arts Hall of Fame as the “Grand Master of the Year.” He was Featured in the January 2001 Action Martial Arts magazine as well as on their Millennium Collector Card. Shihan Thompson and his Dragon Force National Demo Team were awarded the 2001 / 2002 “National Karate Demo Team of the Year” by the World Cup and World Black Belt Martial Arts Hall of Fame Organizations. His Dragon Force National Karate Team was awarded the “Best Karate Team of the Year” in 2003 by the O.M.A.A.