BACKGROUND:

Scott began training in the martial arts at the age of 18 in early 1984.  He has had diabetes since the age of 12 and has not let that stop him from intense training and full contact sparring.  As a diabetic athlete, he understands what it means to overcome adversity.  He has been teaching martial arts to adults and children at several schools since 1987.  In the 1990's he gave kickboxing seminars for the International Diabetic Athletes Association (now called Diabetes and Sports Exercise Association or DESA) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and at conferences in California and Masschusetts.  In 1987, he was the Athletic Director of Camp NYDA, a summer camp for diabetic children in upstate New York. 

MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING:

1984 - Korean Karate, Grand Master Howard Lee, Korean Karate/Tae Kwon Do Institute, Bayside, New York.  Master Lee had three schools in Queens and Long Island and was one of the first to sponsor tournaments since the late 1960's. 

1990 - Kenpo Karate, Sensei Rocky Bavuso, The Karate Studio, Forest Hills, New York.

1992 - Tae Kwon Do, Master John Chung, John Chung Tae Kwon Do Institute, Mineola (Long Island).  Master Chung is in the Black Belt Hall of Fame and was the World Champion in Tae Kwon Do Patterns competition.

1994 - Kickboxing, Thai Boxing and Bruce Lee's Jeet Kun Do, International Martial Arts Academy, Mineola (Long Island) NY.  Trainer Ray Longo is a world champion coach in the UFC (mixed martial arts) and certified in Jeet Kun Do concepts; Muay Thai Instructor Phil Nurse was the undefeated European and British welterwieght Muay Thai champion; and Master Michael Ryan is a kenpo karate black belt and was the East Coast Kickboxing light heavyweight champion.

1996 - Kickboxing, Haritos Martial Arts, Cliffside NJ.

1999 to present - Kickboxing and Tae Kwon Do, Master Alvin Bernard, Team USA Tae Kwon Do Fitness, Fort Lee, NJ.  Master Bernard holds a 6th Dan in ITF tae kwon do and a 4th dan in WTF tae kwon do.  He is the former ITF tae kwon do world champion in both sparring and patterns and was honored to be named an Olympic coach in the 2012 World Olympics in London. 

WATCH VIDEO - 

1992 - Scott sparring a 4th degree black belt on Long Island (Scott is the bigger guy on the left)

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1994 - "Martial Arts" by Scott Lanin, published 1994 in The Challenge, IDAA (pdf)

1995 - Scott featured in the Juvenile Diabetic Foundation Magazine on Athletes (pdf)