Seattle Tang Soo Do Association

The Seattle Tang Soo Do Association was founded in 1978 by Master Michael J. Shintaku two years after he relocated to Seattle from Sacramento, California. In 1982, the Seattle Tang Soo Do Association was dissolved when Master Shintaku joined the Japan Karate Federation by earning a 1st degree black belt in Shito-Ryu Ryobukai, a Japanese style of karate. Master Shintaku began teaching Shito-Ryu under the Japan Karate Federation through Highline Parks in Burien and the Boeing Employee's Karate Association. Two years later Master Shintaku unaffiliated himself from the Japan Karate Federation and re-established the Seattle Tang Soo Do Association and returned to teaching Tang Soo Do.
The Seattle Tang Soo Do Association since its beginnings has worked to bring Tang Soo Do to the communities by offering Karate programs through the Burien Parks and Recreation system in Burien and in 1990 the program expanded to include the Eastside YMCA in Bellevue. The Seattle Tang Soo Do Association has and will always maintain a tradition of providing quality martial arts instruction.