Aaron Edell
Edell began training in Tae Kwon Do with Master Roger Carlon at the age of 5 in 1988 at West America Tae Kwon Do in Mill Valley, California. Edell went on to compete in several point sparring tournaments winning 2nd place at the all Karate Nationals in 1992 and winning a gold medal in 2000 at the Friendship Tournament. Edell has been an avid filmmaker since childhood with a strong focus in martial arts fight choreography. His martial arts movies were screened in film festivals in the San Francisco bay area where they became so popular that they were picked up for a weekly television show in 2001. Edell went to Hampshire College in Massachusetts where he majored in film making and pre-medical studies. Before graduating in 2005, he studied Shotokan Karate, Capoeira and Judo. He began training at West Side Tae Kwon do in March of 2005 and received his black belt from there in June of 2009. Edell is an award winning documentary film maker by trade, but is currently paying the bills by working for a digital asset management company as a delivery and support engineer.
