Instructors – Oakstrong Martial Arts

Instructors

Excellence for every student

Neville Loberg

Owner & Head Instructor
3rd Degree Black Belt
Certified Instructor (Kyo Sa)

Oakstrong Martial Arts – instruction with experience and passion, following tradition, enjoying the workout, making people safer, and sharing the joy of success.

Leveraging more than 40 years of training, Oakstrong Martial Art’s owner/instructor Neville Loberg’s teaching combines his skill in karate and self-defense with his sincere passion for teaching. He believes in the power of positive reinforcement, and that all students can achieve great benefits each unto their own ability. His goal is to assist in every student’s growth in confidence, physical well-being, and mental focus – all while enjoying their training.

Discovering the martial arts during his first year of college, Kyo Sa Loberg has studied a wide range of karate-do systems, weapons, principles, and philosophy. To make people safer, his studies of self-defense strategies, psychology and techniques are bit of an obsession.

In addition to his martial arts teaching experience, he has also sharpened his instructional methods as an educator in the high-tech industry for over 25 years. This experience helped him to create a thorough, fun and engaging teaching method that enables students of all ages and abilities become successful, both inside and outside of the martial arts studio.

Kyo Sa Loberg has been a part of the San Lorenzo Valley community for over 10 years and is happy it is now home to Oakstrong Martial Arts.

Kyo Sa Neville Loberg

“A teenager needs to have someone he can look up to. You helped me with life – I’m really grateful for having you as a teacher. When I first started training I was more insecure than now – to train with you was the coolest thing in my life.”

Beau F. – 16-year-old high school student

About Kyo Sa Loberg

Mr. Neville Loberg

Kyo Sa / Certified Instructor / Sam Dan

Black Belt (Dan Bon) Number 40067

Rank awarded by: Grandmaster Andrew Ah Po

U.S. Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan Federation

Tang Soo Do Martial Way Association

Signing up for classes as a college freshman in 1982, one of the few physical education classes still available was an 8am karate class. In just a few classes, he was invited to train at the instructor’s personal studio, showing a natural understanding, ability, and talent in the art. It was the start of a passion and a path in life. In the following years Mr. Loberg went on to study Tae Kwon Do, Aikido, Kenpo, self defense, and other karate styles.

In 1995 Mr. Loberg dedicated his training to the traditional Korean martial art of Tang Soo Do, accepted as a student of Grandmaster Andrew Ah Po in Sacramento, California. Himself a student of Tang Soo Do founder Great Grandmaster Hwang Kee, Andrew Ah Po was appointed as a charter member of the original U.S. Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan Federation formed in 1976. He is considered one of the founding fathers of Tang Soo Do in the United States.

Over the years as a student of Grandmaster Ah Po, Mr. Loberg excelled at the art, earned senior black belt rank along with certified teacher (Kyo Sa) credentials. Kyo Sa Loberg continues to train and teach Tang Soo Do and self-defense at his studio in Felton, California. He remains true to the principles and art of Tang Soo Do as taught the founder, the late Great Grandmaster Hwang Kee and carried on by Grandmaster Ah Po.

In addition to karate and self-defense, Neville Loberg’s other passions include travel, music, hiking/training in the forest and a deep love for his family.

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Jonathan Hahn

Jonathan Hahn is a Cho Dan (1st degree) black belt in Tang Soo Do. He has been training in the art of Tang Soo Do for over 20 years, under both Grandmaster Andy Ah Po of the Martial Way Association and Grandmaster Steve Ross of the Orange County Academy of Martial Arts. He is also an avid yoga practitioner.

Mr. Hahn has taught basic martial arts and self-defense classes as well as classes for kids five and older, and those with special needs, including children on the autism spectrum. For several years he partnered with Grandmaster Ross to assist in teaching women’s self-defense classes.

He is a talented and thoughtful instructor.

Oakstrong Martial Arts is a proud member of the Moo Yea Tang Soo Do Association under the leadership of Grandmaster David Sgro.

Kyo Sa Neville Loberg, Member
Strategic Leadership Committee

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