Started at two. Brown belt now.
Genevieve has trained here since she was two years old. Today she wears a Sanuces Ryu Jujutsu brown belt and helps coach the little ones. Warriors raising warriors.
Training since 1971
Tested On The Street.
Taught With Heart.
Master Tom Curry has spent 55 years in martial arts and 20 years with the NYPD. Everything he teaches has been tested where it counts, and every lesson is built around one goal: your family's confidence and safety.
Meet your instructor
No Dojo Theatrics. Just What Works.
Master Curry worked some of New York City's toughest neighborhoods in plain clothes. He knows what a real threat looks like, and what it takes to walk away from one safely.
That experience shapes every class, from a 5-year-old's first stance to an adult's knife and gun defense. He is nationally recognized as an expert in hand-to-hand combat and has been inducted into multiple Halls of Fame.
But ask parents why they stay and they talk about something else: he treats their kids like family, checks in on every student, and cares as much about report cards as belts.
In his own words
September 11, 2001
“Paused my vacation to work a case, and ended up witness to a nightmare. Wishing all 1st Responders and everyone affected peace and strength. We will never forget.”
Master Curry is a retired NYPD detective. He doesn’t teach self-defense from a textbook; he teaches it as someone who has seen what the worst day looks like, and who wants every kid on his mat ready to walk away from trouble.
Off the mat, he’s a dad first. His sons Tom and Charlie grew up in this dojo, and he still trains with his own teacher, Grand Master Beins, and travels to national seminars every year to keep learning.
Around here you’ll hear one word a lot: “Ous!” It means respect, effort and “I’m ready.” Our students say it at the start of class, and by the end of the year they mean it. #MasterCurryStrong
The record
55 Years. Two Careers. One Mission.
1971
Tom Curry steps onto the mat for the first time.
NYPD
20 years on the force: Plain Clothes Anti-Crime, then the Organized Crime Control Bureau, Narcotics Division.
Instructor
Senior Intelligence Instructor teaching Anti-Terrorism, Body Language, Debriefing and Survival Tactics.
Honors
"Cop of the Month", awards for teaching self-defense to seniors in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and multiple Hall of Fame inductions.
9th Dan
Grand Master in Sanuces Ryu Jujutsu and 7th Dan Master in United States Black Cat Kenpo.
Today
Teaching Staten Island kids and adults on Richmond Ave with his family and instructors he trained himself.
How we teach
Train The Body. Train The Mind.
Classes are fast, fun and built for each age and skill level: strength, stamina, speed and the self-defense skills to back it up.
We reward scholastics, effort, skill, manners, sportsmanship and how students treat each other. Bullying, peer pressure and big decisions feel smaller when a kid knows what they're capable of.
Every instructor on our mat started as one of Master Curry's students. They teach the way they were taught: with patience, high standards and a lot of encouragement.
Stories from the mat
Not Stock Photos. Our Students.
Every picture on this page was taken in our dojo on Richmond Avenue or at a tournament we traveled to together.
Since age four. Off to college.
“Mr. Strano's been with me since he's four years old. Smart, talented and loyal, this young man scored a big scholarship and he's off to college. Nothing better than seeing our students achieve.”
Better than any trophy.
Before moving to New Jersey, Albert left Master Curry a handwritten note. “Moments like these mean more than any trophy.”
A long string of wins.
Elizabeth Lau trains in our advanced class alongside her father, Master Lau, and keeps adding to a long run of competition wins.
Fall down seven, stand up eight.
Aaron passed his yellow belt test on his second attempt. Nobody is handed a belt here; when you earn it, the whole dojo knows what it took.
Wednesday night jujutsu.
Parents, teens and adults on the same mat. Former students still stop in years later just to say hello.
Who you’ll see on the mat
Master Tom Curry
Head instructor, 9th Dan Sanuces Ryu Jujutsu
Master Parker
Instructor, kids and parent classes
Grace
Assistant instructor
Ethan
Assistant instructor, tournament champion
Proof
Staten Island's Second Home
We hold a 4.9-star rating from 234 Google reviews and 102 Facebook recommendations. The words parents use most: confidence, discipline, respect and family.
