Carter Hargrave, a native Oklahoman, was born in Tulsa in the early 1960’s. Carter Hargrave has had an extensive martial arts career spanning almost 20 years as a teacher. His training started early at age seven under the instruction of Goju Ryu Karate Master Lou Angel while he lived at his north Tulsa residence in the late sixties. While he still had a deep interest in the arts he found at this age he just was not ready for the rigors of long term training. He vowed to some day to return to martial arts training. This return came when he was in high school in Texas where he had friends who were active in the martial arts. Hargrave continued with his interest in martial arts upon his return to Oklahoma in the late seventies.