The Graduating Class of 2011

Marcus Traynor has been a student under Grandmaster Buzz Durkin for the past twenty-five years. Twenty of those years he has been the Head Instructor of Buzz Durkin’s Uechi Karate School. As such Marcus Traynor, in addition to his teaching duties, has been in charge of the organization and execution of the Instructor’s training program and the Black Belt Testing process for the entire Uechiryu Butokukai. In 2007 Marcus Traynor organized the Uechi Butokukai S.T.O.R.M. For the purpose of heightening the standards of the Junior and Adult instructors. Currently, Marcus Traynor holds the rank of Rokudan and lives in Auburn, NH, with his wife Jess and two kids: Bella and Henry