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Soller is the founder and Chief Instructor of
Phoenix Karatedo Association and the La
Roche College Karatedo Club. Until 1994, he served as the Chief Instructor
of the Mount Saint Mary's College
Karatedo Club, which he founded in 1981. The highly successful organisations
promote the traditional and educational values of Karate by emphasising
an individual's development and human potential. Soller's classes are
taught in a disciplined atmosphere which incorporates a hard style of
karate, and direct, proactive movements. He was the All Breaking Champion
under Elmore and his only student to reach Shihan rank.
In 1979, Soller was awarded a full teaching scholarship
to develop the martial arts program at Southern Illinois University. While
there, he trained hundreds of students and redesigned the curriculum to
better reflect karate's aims and goals and meet students' needs. Having
served as Chief Instructor for Elmore before teaching in Illinois, Soller
has also organised and developed karate clubs in Virginia, New Jersey,
Maryland, and Pennsylvania. He is the author of "Teaching in the
College Dojo" (1983), and the "Club Guidebook" (1984),
as well as the latest edition of "The Phoenix Karatedo Guidebook"
(1995). He is currently holder of the 7th dan.
A college administrator by profession, Soller holds academic degrees
from The Richard Bland College of The College
of William and Mary, James Madison University,
and Southern Illinois University. He
serves as a Vice President and Adjunct Professor at La
Roche College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He resides in Pennsylvania
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Dan Soller began studying karate at the age of sixteen. Trained in the
Japanese Oyama-Ryu Kyokushin philosophy, Soller has been a long time student
of Shihan Raymond Elmore, the Chairman
of the Phoenix Karatedo Association. 
