Paul Delfino
Ajarn Paul Delfino was raised on Muay Thai and has extensive years of experience. 1966 at the age of 3, was the beginning age in which he was introduced to Muay Thai. Not untill the age of 10 did he become very natural and proficient with this art. Throughout his life time he has taught very privately and only to limited personnel. His Muay Thai/Muay Boran experience comes from a family discipline, in which he has received The family honory mongkon, and title of Ajarn (in 2010), past down to him from Ajarn (Master) Phayap Meesriyong, his uncle, as a symbol of mastership. Ajarn Paul has diverse skills in which he loved to cross train into various martial arts to obtain ideas and interests and knowledge in order to adapt to all range of discipline, thus devising his own integrated self defense system – a street/combat system called “Universal Tactics Martial Arts System” (UTMAS). In todays society, situations of threats has become more complicated in order to counter back, therefore he strongly urges one to integrate as much as possible to outwit these problems of negative agressions from terrorism and other adversaries. Ajarn Paul has a passion to train, teach and pass on as much as he can to others. He has done local demonstrations/seminars and training, to include training the army national guard.
Ajarn Paul is a Gulf War veteran of 3 campaigns with the US army and is now currently retired Master Sergeant from the SC Army National Guard, 263rd Army Air and Missile Defense Command (AAMDC). Some of his additional martial arts experience includes: Free style Wrestling, Shotokan, Tung Soo Do, Tae Kwan Do, Judo, Kenpo Jiu-Jitsu, Shuri-Ryu, Hung Gar, Filipino martial arts, and many others. He is currently certified under Francis Fong Wing Chun Association of the USA, TBA (Thai Boxing Association of the USA) and the first and only Upstate SC Reprepesentative for the Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP).