Instructors

Yuri Milshtein, Sensei

3rd Degree Black Belt

Sensei Yuri began his official training in martial arts in 1987 at TSK United American Karate, in Central Nyack, NY. Over the next decade he competed at various martial arts tournaments and won numerous awards.

Over the years, Sensei Yuri took breaks from his training to fulfill his military duty obligations, as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve Military Police Corp and for his scholastic studies at S.U.N.Y. Rockland, where he received an A.A.S. degree in Criminal Justice and a Certificate of study in Emergency Medicine.

In May of 2003 he completed the Karate Instructor program at Long Island University School of Sport Sciences and continued his martial arts training, intensely, with the World Survival Hisardut Organization. After years of training and working as the program director and instructor, Sensei Yuri earned his 1st Degree Black Belt in 2009, and also received the title of Sensei, under Grandmaster Moti Horenstein.