Master Instructor

Martial Arts Rank:

7th Degree Black Belt (USA Martial Arts)

6th Degree Black Belt (Mike Quijano “Goju-Ryu”)

Championships:

NBL 4x World Sport Karate Champion

NBL Overall World Sport Karate Champion

Certifications:

ProAct (Professional Assault Crisis Trainer) Certified Instructor 

Bill Kipp “Done With Bullying” Certified Instructor

MAAB Member (Martial Artist Against Bullying) 

MMA Strength and Conditioning Certified Instructor (Burns with Kearns)

Education:

Master in Special Education (Santa Clara University)

Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology (San Jose State)

For as long as Ramir Mosqueda has known he always wanted to be a black belt in the Martial Arts. As a kid he was highly influenced by the martial arts movies of the 70s and 80s. As highly motivated Ramir was in wanting to be a martial artist, his first formal lessons were not as he expected. Ramir quickly stopped his training and did not train again until three years later. At age 12 a childhood friend began training with GM Jim Buhisan and invited Ramir to try out a class. Ramir gave martial arts a second chance and has been a martial artist ever since. 

GM Jim Buhisan created a healthy learning environment that fostered a feeling of support and family that inspired many of his students to reach their highest potential. Ramir Mosqueda feels he was one of those students who understood many of the lessons GM Jim made efforts to communicate to his students and credits a lot of his success to GM Jim’s teaching. 

After earning his first black belt rank in 1989 Ramir set a goal to become a World Karate Champion. In the early 1990s Ramir began to compete in the NBL, one of the premier tournament organizations of the time. In his years of competition under the NBL organization Ramir qualified to compete in the organization’s World Championships for 5 years straight. In his 5 years of competition Ramir Mosqueda became a 4x World Sport Karate Champion and a 1x Overall World Sport Karate Champion. 

Ramir Mosqueda retired from competing in 1996 and later became a karate school partner with Jim Buhisan. Today, Ramir is the Owner and Master Instructor of United Academy of Martial Arts. He feels the current role he plays in the martial arts is the most rewarding.  His goal and purpose as an instructor, is to inspire his students to become the best version of them and help guide them to reach their highest potential and beyond. In his efforts to do so, Ramir Mosqueda, GM Mike Clampitt and other top martial artists throughout the nation have networked and collaborated to help create their current self-defense and life-skills curriculum at United Academy of Martial Arts.

 Dan Southworth, a lifelong friend of Ramir Mosqueda and is one of the newest instructors at United Academy of Martial Arts.  The two began their friendship in middle school and trained Karate/TKD and wrestling together.  Dan’s Martial Arts journey has led him to win several championships before building a successful career in the entertainment industry as a professional actor and stuntmen.  In his pursuit of knowledge, Dan has become a martial arts master. 

Dan’s professional career in the entertainment business includes titles, such as the Red “Quantum” Ranger in the world-wide iconic show Power Ranger-Time Force, Vergil from popular video game series, Devil May Cry including 2019 VGA best video game, Devil May Cry 5 and favorite, Kenshi in the HBO Max series Mortal Combat Legacy 2, along with a host of guest starring appearance in television shows like NCIS LA, 911 Lone Star, The Rookie and more. 

In addition to his role in film television, video games and commercials, Dan also trained actors and stuntmen in physical performance and martial arts to prepare for roles in various upcoming film, television and video game projects.  Dan also coordinated stunts for various film, television, commercial and video games.  Some of the entertainers you may be familiar with who worked with Dan are “The Rock” Dwayne Johnson, John Cena, Zendaya, Collin Farrel, Jon Favreau, Jackie Chan, Travis Fimmel, Mark Decascos, Mackenyu, Ruby Rose, and LL Cool J to name a few.  For a complete overview of Dan’s work, you can visit his IMDb page with the link below:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0816185/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Dan Southworth is currently residing between San Jose and Los Angeles but has made UAMA his training base.  Dan teaches private lessons, Black Belt classes and pops in and out of other classes to share his martial arts knowledge.