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P e t e r K r a m e r
BIOGRAPHY
Peter Kramer was born in Laguna Beach California. He moved to the Island of Tahiti, capital of French
Polynesia, in 1971 at the age of eight. Being the only “popaa” (white person) in his new school, and
what would seem like the perfect punching bag for the bullies in his class, he soon gained a desire to
learn how to defend himself. Not being able to take any martial arts classes he did what he thought was
the next best thing and went out and purchased the four volume book set of “Bruce Lee’s fighting method”.
In 1984 after returning from two years of serving as a missionary for his church, he moved back to
Laguna beach. After finding a job he decided that he would finally be able to take up the martial arts by
studying under a real instructor. All that the small surf town of Laguna had to offer in terms of martial arts
training was Karate and Kung Fu (both being taught by the same instructor, Sensei Pete Rabino.)
Peter soon discovered that all of his childhood years of studying from Bruce Lee’s books had taught him a
few things. Even as a white belt Peter was sparring against 1st and 2nd degree black belts.
As much as he enjoyed studying Karate and Kung Fu he continued to feel that there was another Martial
art that he was destined to learn. In 1988 the year he met Bujinkan instructor Kevin Millis. Visiting one of
his classes is all it took for Peter to realize that this was the martial art that he had been looking for.
In 1991 Peter achieved the rank of 2nd degree black belt before moving up to Oregon to take a design
job at the Nike world headquarters located in Beaverton. Under the direction of Kevin Millis he began
teaching for the first time. Since then he has continued to teach with only a small break when he was sent
to Hong Kong for 2 years to assist Nike in setting up a design office in Asia.
In 1997 Peter travelled to Japan to take his 5th degree black belt test under Masaaki Hatsumi. It was
about this same time that he became a personal student of Bill Atkins, one of Hatsumi’s highest ranking
master instructors. Peter continues to train under Bill Atkins as well as Masaaki Hatsumi in Japan and is
currently ranked at 10th degree black belt.
In addition to his martial arts and designing, Peter loves to spend time with his wife and their 5 children.
His other hobbies include (but are not limited to) surfing, kiteboarding, rock climbing, sailing,
archery, ultimate frisbee, scuba diving, and going on skateboard rides with his dog.
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