STEVE DEMASCO

[tigerclaw2]

Steve Demasco anybody have any info on this guy? hes a 10th dan and a high ranking villari master( I know hes with mattera now but he never got rank from him) Does anybody know why he left villaris?

[octopic]

It is my understanding that Demasco was a 7th dan when he and Master Mattera left the Villari's org to start the USSD organization. I don't know who (if anyone) promoted him beyond 7th.

The Villari's/USSD split was mainly a business decision.

I have never worked with Master Demasco, but I have heard that he is an excellent martial artist.

[tigerclaw2]

I hear his style is different than mattaras is this true?

[octopic]

I hear his style is different than mattaras is this true?

Do you mean style as in Shaolin Kempo Karate, or style as in how they apply it? I would imagine, them being two different people, that they would apply it in different ways. However, as far as I know, and I could be wrong on this, both of them are still basically doing the same SKK that they did back when they were with Villari. I know that they've added a few things back in that Villari took out (e.g. Cerio's Circle of the Panther), and that Demasco has been doing some work on Black Tiger Kung Fu, but I don't know how much this has affected what is taught in the USSD schools or what Demasco and Mattera practice on their own.

[y2_sub]

What exactly is USSD ?

[tigerclaw2]

UNITED STUDIOS OF SELF DEFENSE WAS STARTED BY RUDY HORN AND FRED VILLARI. They were 2nd degree black belts under nick cerio. They brokeaway from nick cerio and formed ussd.The style is shaolin kempo.Fred villari in 1981 changed the name to villaris self defense centers. In 1988 charles mattera broke away from fred villari and bought the ussd name or villari never copyrighted it and matera pick it up for nothing, dont know the details? Check out the https://www.ussd.com and https://www.villarisonline.com for more info.

[octopic]

UNITED STUDIOS OF SELF DEFENSE WAS STARTED BY RUDY HORN AND FRED VILLARI. They were 2nd degree black belts under nick cerio. They brokeaway from nick cerio and formed ussd.The style is shaolin kempo.Fred villari in 1981 changed the name to villaris self defense centers. In 1988 charles mattera broke away from fred villari and bought the ussd name or villari never copyrighted it and matera pick it up for nothing, dont know the details? Check out the https://www.ussd.com and https://www.villarisonline.com for more info.

I don't know for sure, but my guess would be that Villari never protected the USSD name (either through copyright or trademark). Otherwise, I am sure that he would've been able to go after USSD for their use of the name. In fact, he probably could've anyway, but likely decided that it wasn't worth the trouble.

[tigerclaw2]

Your probably right, villari probably thought know one would ever try to break away.

[octopic]

Your probably right, villari probably thought know one would ever try to break away.

I'm not sure about that. However, even if he had protected the name, Mattera et. al. could've just choosen another one. For me, them using the USSD name either implies they have no creativity, or that they were just trying to shove it in GM Villari's face.

[ninjamac]

They probably were trying to shove it in grandmaster villaris face.

That makes more sense than MATTERA actually buying the name.