Dubbed “Francombat” by his peers, Franco Richard is one of the most high-profile combat instructors teaching in North America today. Franco has been studying martial arts since the age of seven, and by the age of fifteen he already earned a black belt in Karate. During his late teen years he began training in Wing Chun, Judo, and other martial arts systems. By age twenty, Franco started training in Kuoshu, a particular type of full contact fighting contest derived from an old Chinese tradition of constructing a raised platform called in Chinese “Lei Tai” and challenging anyone to step forward and fight. This art would become his life’s passion.