Leilani Marie

Born in Osan City, Korea, Leilani is the daughter of native Ok Cho Kim and Claude Sr. With prejudices high against "1/2 black" kids residing in the country, Leilani still charmed and melted the hearts of the most toughest Korean store merchants to put everything and anything on her "parent's tab." For her spirit she studies martial arts at Rifkin Pro Karate, training is based in traditional Tae Kwon Do with Aikido and Jujitsu self defense techniques. On Sept. 15th, 2007 she obtained her 1st degree black belt by displaying her 75 self defense techniques called out of order, executed 10 forms, one of which she had to design, performed free knife attack techniques on 2 black belt men at the same time, broke 3 one inch boards with a blindfolded jumping back kick, sparred full contact first individually then 3 black belt men at once, in a 2 1/2 hour test. At the Battle of LA, she placed 1st in forms beating out 4 men and 1st in her division of women's sparring. She took 1st place in forms