For more than 30 years, Clayton Johnson has helped children, teens, and adults throughout Miller Place, Mount Sinai, Port Jefferson, Setauket, and surrounding Long Island communities grow stronger, more confident, and more disciplined through martial arts training.

Like many kids growing up in the 1970s, Clayton Johnson was fascinated by martial arts movies. He spent hours imagining himself performing incredible techniques—jumping off couches, throwing punches in front of the mirror, and finishing every imaginary fight with a heroic pose.

All he wanted was the chance to train in a martial arts school.

When his parents finally enrolled him in a local school, he was thrilled to receive his first uniform and begin training.

But the experience was not what he expected.