I trained with Mario for about 6 months, then he moved away, Purple Belt Johnny Guerrero took over the school and then relocated to Newark NJ, trained there for a year, then Johnny went to Iraq due to 911, and Josef took over, trained for another few more months and Josef opened up his own school in Harrison NJ, Took a few years off and re started training with Josef, at his school in Harrison NJ for probably a year, then took more time off. Started training again in Jan 2013 with Nuno in Springfiled NJ, and never stopped.