Dee Arianne Rockwood

Dee Arianne Rockwood is from a Small town in South West Ohio (Middletown / (Hillbillyellegy). As a misfit in school—and to redirect her energy—she began her martial arts (Judo) training in 1958 at the local YMCA, winning her first trophy at the age of nine. She achieved her black belt at 12 years old, and began Tae-Kwon-Do lessons, with a black belt at 14, in 1964. She then found her next challenges: Aikido and religion. Dee received a black belt equivalent at 16 and began studying to become a Presbyterian Minister. (Graduated BA in Theology and Physiology.) While in the Seminary, she found another Martial arts challenge: Japanese Jiu-Jitsu, achieving yet another black belt at 18.
After a disagreement with her church over racism in the late 1960s, Dee left the ministry and changed her studies to focus on Engineering. (Graduated BS in Mechanical Engineering) While in Engineering school she became a student of Lu Lee Chang, an exiled Shaolin Tao Buddhist Priest and Kung-Fu master.Â
While working a part time security job to pay her way through school, Dee became involved with police work, and later became a hand to hand combat instructor for SWAT and Military Special Forces, becoming a civilian asset for both police and government agencies.Â
Graduating from college, Lu Lee sponsored her into a Shaolin Temple in Tibet to finish her training in Wing-Chun /Wu-Shu/Kung-Fu. (International Karate Assoc., Grandmaster 6th Deg. Black Belt.)
Upon returning from Asia, Dee went to work as a field service engineer. She began traveling, working, and competing all over the world.Â
Dee Arianne is now retired from the field of Engineering, and has been inducted into the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame’s Hall of Heroes. Now in her seventies, she still competes a couple times a year, covering over 63 years and eight decades of competition. Using and combining that vast experience of travel, police, military and martial arts, she now spends her days spinning fictional accounts of Jade Crystal Stone’s crime solving adventures with her USEXI organization and Team