With over 20 years of experience in the martial arts industry, Daniel is a well rounded martial artist. He is a 5th degree black belt granting him the title 'master". He was trained under master John Bussard, owner of the famous Kicks Karate schools. Daniel has promoted over 400 students to black belt. 

He was a former pre-school teacher at the Kentlands Children's Center, which helped broadened his teaching ability with young children. In 2017 he was the martial art choreographer for "Mulan Jr The Musical" and in 2019 he was invited back to choreograph "Lion King Jr The Musical" at Shady Grove Middle School. 

He currently travels the DMV conducting talks on entrepreneurship and anti-bullying. He is the host of the podcast show "PK Talk". Daniel is also an approved performer with the superintendents council for performing artists in MCPS. 

With her passion for customer service, Susan is a natural business owner. She was a former supervisor for Emergency Medicine Associates where she built their whole customer service department from the ground up. Currently she manages all office and billing duties at Pandas Karate. 

Susan is originally from New York and is a mother of 3 wonderful children. She loves fitness and the self-defense aspects of the martial arts and is currently a 1st degree black belt in karate. 

She is the backbone to all of our social and community endevors. Catch her in action teaching our AM Kickboxing classes!