Master Dan Segarra Introduces: Budo the Mouse and the Quest for Courage (Part 3)

MAWN: So you started in 77 with Tang Soo Do and then inherited the school. Tell us a little bit about that transition from martial arts student, to instructor, and to school owner. What was that like? DS: The previous owner, Master Masley, was going to shut the school down. I was a professional artist at the time, fresh out of school, freelancing. When he told me the school was closing, I said, “There’s just no way. What do we have to do?” So Master Bannard and I put some money together and we bought him out. We inherited debt and no students because at that point he let it