![]() He currently teaches at his karate school in Mount Dora, Florida. Mattson himself moved to Florida and started successful karate schools in Florida. Many of his students upon mastery of Uechi-Ryu Karate-Do started successful karate schools in the Boston area and around Massachusetts and the New England area. Mattson had been the chief instructor of a karate school in Boston at various location for decades. Almost all of these have been in the United States of America except for the notable exception in 1985 which was held in Okinawa, Japan with virtual every Okinawan Uechi-Ryu Karate-Do masters from Okinawa giving seminars and culminating in the participation in the annual All-Okinawa Karate-Do Kumite Championship with all styles of Okinawan Karate competing from all over the world each year. ![]() He has sponsored an ongoing set of seminars by international karate masters including Okinawan Uechi-Ryu Karate-Do masters from Okinawa for over thirty years consecutively since 1983. He was one of the very first to publish a book in English about karate and has since continued to publish many books on Uechi-Ryu. He was the first to teach the style professionally resulting in the majority of the original growth in the United States of America. Mattson is a well-known author of martial arts books and one of the first Americans to be awarded a black belt in Uechi-ryƫ Karate-do.
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