Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Donald Hugh Nagle
American karateka From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Donald Nagle was an American karate expert and instructor, as well as a Marine.
![]() | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
Remove ads
Biography
Nagle was a Marine; in the mid-1950s he was stationed on Okinawa, in the Ryukyu Islands off the coast of Japan. There he studied karate under Tatsuo Shimabuku, who had started the Isshin-Ryu school.[1][2] He was promoted to 8th-degree black belt in 1966.[3]
The IIKA (International Isshinryu Karate Association) promoted Don Nagle to 9th-Degree black belt on November 2, 1984.[4]
He died on August 23, 1999, a day after heart surgery at age 61.[5]
Remove ads
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads