Donald Nagle was an American marine,

karate (; ; Okinawan language, Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial arts, martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the Okinawan martial arts, indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the ...

expert and instructor.

Biography

Nagle was a Marine; in the mid-1950s he was stationed on

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, in the

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off the coast of Japan. There he studied

under

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, who had started the Isshin-Ryu school. He was promoted to 8th-degree black belt in 1966. The IIKA (International Isshinryu Karate Association) promoted Don Nagle to 9th-Degree black belt on November 2, 1984. He died on August 23, 1999, a day after heart surgery at the age 61.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nagle, Donald Hugh 1938 births 1999 deaths American male karateka Sportspeople from Jersey City, New Jersey United States Marines Gōjū-ryū practitioners