Tenth Degree Black Belt Grandmaster Kevin Barry Sullivan is the founder of AUUSOMA which stands for America's Universal System of Martial Arts. Perpetual refinement and improvement of karate, the martial arts and the individual Artist, should be the martial artists underlying philosophy. Grandmaster Sullivan has always enjoyed a good relationship with all of his past teachers and takes pride that he can call each and every one of them a friend to this day, with mutual good will and support for each other.
Learning directly from great Masters and many others has been a fantastic journey in life with many lessons learned. One of the most important lessons is that none of us can use a technique to escape time or bad health. Having watched many of his teachers grow old and become disabled or die, falling from the statue of incredible physical prowess, has become a tremendous revelation.
Grandmaster Sullivan has observed that no single style of Martial Arts includes all that is needed to fulfill what a martial artist need. Just as all the flowers of this earth need a mixture of pollen from many species and different types of plants and flowers, a well rounded martial artist also needs a mixture of styles to grow, survive and be complete. Grandmaster Sullivan believes that teaching a system that just focuses on one attribute lacks the intermixing elements of other systems and that deprives students of what they are entitled to. the hazard of course is, fragmentizing systems to teach only their best components without being the rightful head of that system would also deny students their rightful destiny to assume leadership in their chosen system, should they decide --as many have -- to go on and earn their Black Belt ranks; many with Grandmaster Sullivan. This would leave no legacy to pass on to future generations as his teachers have done, or attempted to do.
So to the betterment of martial artists everywhere, in April of 2000, Grandmaster Sullivan formally founded his own system designed to integrate only the best of what other systems had to offer and thereby filling in the gaps of what they are lacking. From that date forward Grandmaster Sullivan offers his hybrid, and more complete style to the public for their consideration: “AUUSOMA”™, America’s Ultimate Universal System of Martial Arts™. Copyrighted.4/6/2000.
All styles of Martial Arts are good. America became a great nation by the melting together of all peoples from the entire world. The world of karate and martial arts is no different and that's why Grandmaster Sullivan chose to humbly make his contribution to the martial arts community for the general well-being and good of all by taking the best of many great systems and integrating them as the system “AUUSOMA”.
Those that study AUUSOMA respect all systems.
