Alexander is a martial artist, teacher, husband, father, and Christian living in Houston, Texas. For more than

thirty-five years, martial arts have been a constant thread through his life - not simply as a method of fighting, but as a means of

learning, questioning, growing, and ultimately teaching others.

His journey began with boxing and grew to include training in Tang Soo Do, Lao Hu P'ai, Shotokan, Goshin Karate, Muay Thai,

Aikijujutsu, Toyama Ryu, and Sekiguchi Ryu. Each art, teacher, training partner, success, and failure contributed something to the

martial artist he would eventually become.

Lewis is a Godan, co-founder of Tora no Tsume Dojo, and founder of Ryu no Tate Jutsu, the karate system he currently teaches

alongside Aikijujutsu. He has led Tora no Tsume Dojo for the past three years, continuing the responsibility entrusted to him by his

teacher while developing his own approach to the study and transmission of martial arts.

At the center of his work is a lifelong question: What is martial arts training actually trying to teach us?

That question has driven Lewis to look beyond simply collecting techniques or accepting inherited explanations. He believes tradition

deserves to be preserved, but also investigated. Kata should be studied, questioned, tested, and lived. Applications should survive

contact with training partners. Principles should matter beyond a single movement. And eventually, a student should develop

enough understanding to investigate the art without always needing someone else to provide the answers.

That philosophy became the foundation of The Kata Lab.

Lewis does not believe that his interpretation of a kata must become someone else's interpretation. Instead, his goal is to give

martial artists a process for developing their own informed answers: observe carefully, understand context, form a hypothesis, drill it,

test it, allow it to fail, revise it, and continue investigating.

For him, that process extends beyond kata. It is part of becoming an independent martial artist.

Above all, Lewis sees himself as part of a much longer chain. His teachers gave him something worth carrying. His responsibility is

to understand it as deeply as he can, contribute what his own lifetime of training has taught him, and pass something worthwhile to

his students and, most importantly, to his daughters.

Martial arts were handed to him as a path to walk.

His work is an effort to leave that path a little clearer for those who walk it after him.