From Master Gary Wortham's Woodlands dojang came 1st Dans Stephanie Wortham and Patricia Haygood. Baytown Chayon-Ryu, under Master Conrad Pickens, has 1st Dan Eva Gonzales. From Master John Blankenship's Austin Chayon-Ryu dojang are 2nd Dans Dr. Scott Hovroka and Doris Heinenn, and 1st Dans Dale Rudin and Sharon Moor. From Eastland Chayon-Ryu TX was promoted Shelley Harbin, First Dan. From Master David Mitchell in North Carolina are Alice Parada, 2nd Dan, and Shannon Boyd, 1st Dan.
Eastern history abounds with tales of women warriors.
This was after a rape attempt in her jail cell, while she was wearing a dress as demanded by the church court. While Elizabeth I of England was considered the most brilliant royal head of Europe during the Renaissance, she was not an active warrior heroine. As societies became more complex, warriors were not necessarily blood-relatives of the noble lord, but true to each other through martial arts. Upper-class women were taught martial arts until more recently in Asia. Women of Japan turned it into a whirling, slashing offensive and defensive weapon, holding men at more than twice arm's-length.