Master Tom Green - Chief Instructor
Master Tom Green has more than 30 years of experience in the Martial Arts, personal safety and security, self-defense, and law enforcement. He is also a licensed practical nurse.
Master Green was a personal student of Grandmaster Remy A. Presas, the founder of Modern Arnis, beginning in the late 1980s. He received his Black Belt and Advanced Instructor Certificate directly from Grandmaster Presas in 1989 and has been teaching since at the school that he founded, the Warren School of Self-Defense located in Warren, Pennsylvania. Master Green has also studied extensively in other martial arts including Shotokan Karate (6th Degree Black Belt from Hanshi Rick Johnson) and Wing Chun (Sifu/Guro Dr. Jordan Yee).
In addition to teaching group and private classes at the Warren School of Self-Defense, Master Green has presented numerous seminars to law enforcement agencies and civilian groups.
Master Green is a Graduate of the Pennsylvania Sheriff's Academy at Dickinson School of Law and the Pennsylvnia Department of Corrections Academy. He was also a Security Supervisor in Europe for the U.S. Army.
Master Green was a personal student of Grandmaster Remy A. Presas, the founder of Modern Arnis, beginning in the late 1980s. He received his Black Belt and Advanced Instructor Certificate directly from Grandmaster Presas in 1989 and has been teaching since at the school that he founded, the Warren School of Self-Defense located in Warren, Pennsylvania. Master Green has also studied extensively in other martial arts including Shotokan Karate (6th Degree Black Belt from Hanshi Rick Johnson) and Wing Chun (Sifu/Guro Dr. Jordan Yee).
In addition to teaching group and private classes at the Warren School of Self-Defense, Master Green has presented numerous seminars to law enforcement agencies and civilian groups.
Master Green is a Graduate of the Pennsylvania Sheriff's Academy at Dickinson School of Law and the Pennsylvnia Department of Corrections Academy. He was also a Security Supervisor in Europe for the U.S. Army.
Guro Paul Green
Master Green is assisted in his teaching at the Warren School of Self-Defense by his son, Guro Paul Green, who was the first student from the school to be promoted to Lakan (Black Belt) in Modern Arnis.