Master Teacher / Sayagyi Daniel Carroll –

Founder – One World Martial Arts Federation, Owner – One World Karate

Daniel Carroll is a former Special Education teacher and has been teaching martial arts since 1994. Sayagyi Carroll's focus in martial arts for many years was practical self-defense with weapons, also known as Banshay in the Myanmar martial arts systems.

Then, after 7 years of public and private school teaching and working closely with special needs children ages 11- 18, he developed a Martial arts program utilizing some of the most forward-thinking in Physical and Occupational Therapy.

Daniel began studying the Burmese art of Bando in 1980 at the age of eight. He currently (2023) holds a 6th level black belt with the ITBA, and is a 4 time National Champion of the American Bando Association.

Along with his continued teaching and training in Thaing/Lethwei – (Burmese Boxing/Kickboxing), Bando Empty Hand Self-defense and animal Systems Forms, Banshay (Weaponed Hand) skills, and the Naban grappling systems, Sayagyi Dan has helped train students from around the globe, most recently in Grenoble, France in 2016.

Sayagyi Carroll opened his school, One World Karate, in May 2012, in Austin, Texas, with the express goal of bringing the benefits of Martial Arts training to all. He teaches programs utilizing the Theories, Principles, and Philosophies of Thaing/Bando as the base of a true Academy style of Martial Arts instruction. His school also utilizes the most modern and contemporary educational concepts developed for working with students of varied abilities. In addition to his classes, and at the urging of his wife, Elizabeth, he has founded a non-profit organization to provide educational materials and training to schools that wish to offer martial arts instruction to students of varied abilities.

Besides teaching and training in the martial arts. Saya Dan’s life revolves around his wife and traveling around the world via sailboat.

He teaches seminars worldwide and offers online courses focused on the Hanthawaddy system of Myanmar Thiang, and creating inclusive and adapted sports programs worldwide through his non-profit organization, One World Martial Arts Federation and Texas Aaptive Sports and Recreation.