Melanie Venin earned a junior black belt, her father a second-degree black belt and her mother and sister a black belt. POMPTON LAKES — Here's some good advice: Don't mess with the Venin family! The ...
Black belts in karate, and in the movies, have become a dime a dozen. Yuji Okumoto, a third-generation Japanese-American, is a brown belt who plays a black-belted villain in ”The Karate Kid II.” He is ...