Professor Bob McKean
Professor McKean began his training in Danzan Ryu Jujitsu in 1969 and obtained the rank of Shodan in 1973 though the American Judo & Jujitsu Federation. In 1974 Bob became a student of Professor William (Bill) Montero Sr. at the Pacific Judo Academy in San Jose, California. During his eighteen years under the personal instruction of Professor Montero, himself a black belt under Professor Henry Okazaki, Bob was awarded the rank of yodan in Danzan Ryu Jujitsu, graduated from the Kodenkan Jujitsu Police Course and received the title of Senior Black Belt Bokendo Instructor.
Bob currently holds the Danzan Ryu Jujitsu rank of rokudan and title of professor from the Pacific Jujitsu Alliance, godan from the American Judo & Jujitsu Federation, yodan from the Kodenkan Yudanshakai and sandan from the American Jujitsu Institute.
In addition he is ranked as nidan in judo and rokudan in jujitsu through the United States Judo Association and was recognized in 1995 as a USJA Master Jujitsu Rank Examiner. Bob holds the rank of shodan in Shotokan Karate-Do under Shihan Ken Funakoshi, godan in Goshin-Jutsu through the Shudokan Martial Arts Association under Professor Walter Todd, shodan in Daito Ryu Aikijutsu under Sensei Yonezawa and black belt ranks in Nihon Ryu Jujitsu, Karate-do and Kobudo through the Kokusai Budoin.
After a twenty-seven year law enforcement career with the Milpitas Police Department Bob retired at the rank of lieutenant in 2001. Some of his assignments included patrol supervisor, street crimes unit, community relations, traffic unit supervisor, internal affairs, SWAT team member, firearms and defensive tactics instructor. During his career he attended numerous police defensive tactics instructor courses taught by some of the leading law enforcement instructors in the field that included Bob Koga, Dick Min, Jordan Roth, Don Cameron, John Peters, Mike Nakamura, George Williams, Darren Levin and Jim Wagner. Bob obtain police instructor certifications for straight baton, PR-24, expandable baton, riot baton, tactical handcuffing, carotid restraints and police self defense. Bob was a 1985 graduate of the F.B.I. Defensive Tactics Instructor Course and was recognized as a Police Defensive Tactics Instructor by the Kokusai Budo Renmei in Japan. He taught police defensive tactics for over twenty years for his department, a regional police academy and for numerous law enforcement agencies in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Illinois and Massachusetts.
Bob has been an active supporter of many martial arts organizations. He is a Charter Member of the Kilohana Martial Arts Association, Silver Patron Life Member of the United States Judo Association, and a forty year member of the American Judo & Jujitsu Federation. In 2001 Professor Bob McKean and Professor Bob Krull co-founded the Pacific Jujitsu Alliance, an organization of Danzan Ryu Jujitsu black belts established to preserve and promote the arts of Danzan Ryu Jujitsu as taught by Professor William Montero Sr.
Bob currently lives in southern Oregon where he continues to pass on the teachings of Professor Okazaki and Professor Montero through classes at the Medford Judo Academy and through clinics for the Pacific Jujitsu Alliance, the American Judo & Jujitsu Federation and Kilohana Martial Arts Association.