Diallo Nkenge Frazier

Diallo Nkenge Frazier is an American author and combat instructor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the Los Angeles areas of Pacoima and Sepulveda. Known for his street fighting ability, he wrote about it. He is the son of Max Yergan Frazier, a revolutionary writer, poet, and author who was murdered when Diallo was still an infant. His mother Joyce Frazier moved him and his brother to California and Diallo became a fixture in street life and gang culture. Even though Diallo spent all of his teens and the early part of his twenties involved in street life he still managed to graduate high school and began to turn his life around in his late twenties.

Career

Diallo began to dedicate himself to activism while working with several different groups such as the Boys and Girls Club, Pacoima Cultural Youth Center, Phoenix House (working with drug addicted teens) and several others. While working with Phil Leonard, Diallo helped fund a non-profit organization called "Toolshed" where he also worked as a counselor and combat instructor. It was this time, Diallo decided that combat training would become his profession.

In 1997, Diallo's older brother David introduced him to world famous Jeet Kune Do instructor Paul Vunak, who taught him how to market himself. He soon began to train bouncers, bodyguards, bounty hunters and private security companies. It was then he had "Revelations of a Warrior" published and followed it up with a combat DVD series featuring his own style that he founded called "Ghetto Blocks". This is a street style of combat combining the styles of 52 blocks, Ghetto Boxing and J.K.D. Diallo has been featured in "Black Belt Magazine" and has also written articles for the magazine.

Bibliography

"Revelations of a Warrior" (Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc., Pittsburg, PA, 2003)