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Latest News Written by Shawn (Administrator) Thursday, 16 March 2006 Cobra Kai will now have kickboxing classes every Tuesday and Thursday at 12:30 PM. Ken Hahn is the instructor. Hahn may be a name that not many are familiar with in the MMA community, but that doesn’t mean he’s new to combat sports. As Ken explained, he has a long history in the fighting arts, “Basically I train a lot of the Miletich fighters in Muay Thai stand up theory and concepts. Originally I grew up in Hawaii with BJ Penn and Cabbage, I started doing martial arts and got my second degree blackbelt in Tae Kwan Do, then I switched over to bare knuckle karate for the Sabaki Challenge (in Denver). For the MMA fans an interesting point is the old UFC was based a lot on the Sabaki Challenge and the guy that runs Sabaki helped set up the early UFC shows. I won the Challenge in 2001 and got my second degree and teaching certification in that style. Then I moved to San Francisco and hooked up with Fairtex Muay Thai.”Hahn continued, “Through there during a 3-4 year relationship I got my instructor certification, more importantly because I hung out with them and befriended them I got instruction from all the teachers. Normally when you go through an instruction only one of the three or four instructor guys takes you under his wing, and I got all of them, so that’s a little special. I’m the last person also to be certified under Alex Gong (who was killed in 2003) and I still have my contacts with them and whenever any of the fighters come here I usually corner them.”For more information on the classes contact CKJJ at 702-395-4567