Katalin Rodriguez-Ogren (Katalin Zamiar) |
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Born |
Katalin Rodriguez Zamiar August 12, 1971 Chicago, United States |
Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) |
Katalin Rodriguez-Ogren (maiden name Katalin Rodriguez Zamiar, best known as Katalin Zamiar) (born August 12, 1971 in Chicago) is a Cuban Americanmartial artist, sportswriter, fitness instructor, gym owner and martial arts actress.
Katalin Zamiar holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she became a forensic science teacher. She has studied martial arts since 1982 and is an accomplished martial artist holding black belts in kung-fu, taekwondo, Gōjū-ryū karate and Shōrin-ryū karate. She has owned POW! Mixed Martial Arts and Chicago Krav Maga training centers since 2001. Along with teaching at her training center in downtown Chicago, she has often covered the UFC for Grappling magazine, focusing primarily on features and interviews. She has published more than 150 articles in various martial arts magazines including Black Belt and Inside Kung Fu, and has been featured in magazines such as Shape, Allure and Self. She has worked as an international fitness and martial arts presenter and has spent some time as a spokesperson for the Martial Arts brand Revgear. She has also written conditioning materials and manuals and can be seen in more than a dozen of workout fitness/martial arts videos. Her other endeavors have included a summer training camp for upcoming basketball players and a non-profit charity MAKE. In 2014, she wrote the book Weight Training for Martial Arts.