Ninja Nguyen

Ninja Nguyen is the owner of Xtreme Ninja Martial Arts Center in Boston, where he trains hundreds of students. He began his martial arts journey at age four in a small fishing village in Vietnam and continued training in refugee camps, studying kali in the Philippines before coming to America, where he went on to earn third-degree black belts in Tae Kwon Do and Shotokan Karate. He is the author of Step on the Mat: Life Lessons of the Ninja, in which he shares the lessons found in the routines and rituals of the martial arts and the story of his own path from refugee to teacher.