VCO President
Bio Ron Tramontano
Updated: February 1, 2020
Ron Tramontano is the CEO of Virtual Competitions Online Platform, (www.virtualcompetititionsonline.com) he is also chairman and founder of the North American Tang Soo Do Federation. In the early 90's Master Tramontano, served as the President of The Martial Arts Network Online, a 24/7 cable television network with offices at Universal Studios Florida www.tman.com. At this same time, and in support of his television network, Master Tramontano started a publicly-traded company during the dot com era called Tmanglobal. Ron is a successful entrepreneur, businessman, and has authored four books dealing with martial arts to a diet for overweight children. As another interesting note during this time as he was putting his 24/7 television network, he wrote three screenplays he calls, "The Time Master Trilogy". Ron is listed in the IMDB Database as a director and actor, known for Women and Children Go Missing Everyday: Watch How (2010) and contributor to Masters of the Martial Arts Presented by Wesley Snipes (1998). Ron is a Vietnam Veteran and has attended a year at West Points Military Academy. Licensed as a private pilot and dedicated amateur ham operator call sign (KN4AWO). Master Tramontano teaches and oversees the instruction of over eight hundred students and 160 black belts a week at his facility, in Boca Raton, Florida "West Boca Karate" established in 1986.
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Ron Tramontano is the C.E.O. of “Virtual Competitions, Inc.”, founded in 2014 in Boca Raton, Florida. His business is the development of online video competitions in all areas of business, with the sports and fitness models being the strongest. Please visit this website to read many of our plans, goals, stagnates and more. https://virtualcompetitionsonline.com
Tramontano is also the Chairman and Founder of NATSDF “ North American Tang Soo Do Federation” https://tman.com/LOGIN/natsdf, a martial arts organization created in 1992 to oversee the training of thousands of martial arts students.
In 1994, Tramontano created TMAAN, “The Martial Arts Action Network”, a 24/7 Cable Television Network, devoted to the world of martial arts and its practitioners. TMAAN or “TMAN”, as it is called had offices located at 22 Universal Studios, Florida in the mid to late nineties but since has relocated to Boca Raton, Florida.
Master Ron Tramontano is an extremely successful entrepreneur, businessman, author, and martial arts master. As the head of the North American Tang Soo Do Federation, Tramontano teaches and oversees the instruction of over five hundred students and one hundred and sixty black belts a week at his facility in Boca Raton, Florida, established in 1986. As of 2020 West Boca Karate is still located and run to this day by Master Tramontano in the same location in Boca Raton, Florida.
Tramontano along with Dr. Ron Valli, in 1994 created the first-ever martial arts websites dedicated to all styles of martial arts and their practitioners. “The Martial Arts Network On-Line”. https://tman.com is still in existence today.
In an all-out effort, Master Tramontano began to take steps that created an idea and dream that has been on the lips of every martial artist for the last 20 years. The Martial Arts Network, a network for martial artists around the world. Imagine now, how great this would be for martial artists all over this country to have our own television network. Tman.com, grew every day as it achieved over a million hits a month. In 1996, Master Tramontano along with partner, student and longtime friend, Mr. Tony Interdonato, moved the television network from Boca Raton, Florida to Universal Studio in Orlando where for seven long years, Tramontano, Interdonato and Dr. Ron Valli work trying to fit many of the pieces together that would ultimately grow a family-oriented television network, dedicated to the martial arts community.
Master Tramontano’s vision was a simple one; he wanted to create a television network that would reinforce family values, a place where every parent would feel comfortable having their children in front of, a television network that was giving the right messages.
Today, Master Tramontano is working on a new and exciting project called "Virtual Competitions" Competitions and events for all types of businesses. Here is our story.I remember some of the first thoughts I had. What would this website have to look like? How would we judge events? How do the schools' owners make money? What about prizes? Then reality set in. Ron, what are you thinking? For centuries martial arts tournaments all over the world have been done in any venue that could be found. Most of the time they were in hot dirty not so safe or convenient locations, but let me tell you, these were great times! Great friends! And the memories will stay with us for a lifetime. What was I thinking? How could I compete with that? Was I barking up the proverbial wrong tree? What was I doing trying to change the way things had been done forever? Then it hit me, I didn’t have to change a thing.
We were going to enhance it. Today the martial arts community along with dance, gymnastics, and many other industries will use our platform in many ways, and for different reasons.
Let me tell you about one of the first times I used the platform. It was at my school in Florida, West Boca Karate in Boca Raton, Nicholas was a new white belt kind of small in stature. Mom was sitting in the spectator area while Nick was getting ready to record his video. Nickolas was just five and his parents in a previous meeting with Linda and I had expressed their concern for Nickolas. Nickolas’s mom went on to say Nick was very shy and possibly on the spectrum. Nick's parents just had him tested and were waiting for the results. Nickolas did a few takes with me and between my personality and the funny responses to Nicholas bloopers Nick was smiling and getting better with each take. We did three takes that day, I adjusted Nickolas’s gate, made some adjustments to his posture and tonality as well as the way he interacted with the camera. Needless to say, Nicholas did just fine smiling and proud of himself. However, this is not why I am telling you this story. Nicholas’s Mom sitting on the side was crying to a point I had to go over to her to see if I had done something wrong. To my surprise, Nicks Mom hugged me and told me she had never seen Nickolas respond to any activity or anyone this way. Needless to say, I was hooked and, in a flash, I saw the potential of what could be. The year is now 2020 and we are ready to unleash our project on the world.
Virtual Competitions New Platform is also a humanitarian thrust forward to meet the world and its people where they live. Imagine if you would, the young man or woman that shows you in a video how they continually undermine records set by our best athletes. The world's reach we have always hoped for has been realized now with our Virtual Competitions Platform. There will no longer be a social problem of a forgotten child, man or woman with a dream of being the best in the world at something they know in their heart and mind they are. Not having the ability to go beyond personal circumstances that rules our lives is to be paralyzed mentally as well as physically. Whether it’s because of poverty, sickness in the family and a need to care for an aging parent or just the inability to travel. Virtual Competitions eliminates the drawbacks of circumstances and provides an opportunity for every person no matter where they live or what their conditions may be.
Master Tramontano, has added many credits to his career over the years, such as a Screenplay Writer “Time Master Trilogy” www.tman.com/LOGIN/tmaster/ he is also an author of two published books on martial arts, “A Practical Guide to Self Defense thru The Martial Arts” and “The Tang Soo Do Forms Workbook”, Master Tramontano has two other books, one, an e-book, titled “Once Upon A Masters Time,” Martial Arts Stories of Wisdom, Meant To Motivate Young Minds. This book is hosted and may be purchased at https://www.lulu.com/content/5841840. A new book just published "It's Not A Diet It's A Save It" deals with the on-going problem of Obesity in young to middle-aged children.
Tramontano, when asked, will tell you he is a person that makes things happen. I see it, and then I create it. Look here for many of Master Tramontano’s accomplishments and websites. https://tman.com/RT/rt.
Ron Tramontano tested in the 75th Dan testing and received his Dan rank from Grand Master Hwang Kee. He started his martial arts training in Newburgh, New York, under the tutelage of Master Don Southerton. At the time, Master Southerton was the chief instructor at West Point Military Academy, where Tramontano attended OCS “Officers Candidate School” for one year after serving two years in the military.
If you stop to see Master Tramontano at his school in Boca Raton, Florida, “West Boca Karate”, you will find a beautifully kept, technically modern facility. You can view the many photographs and pictures of Master Tramontano with Chuck Norris, Don “The “Dragon” Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock and many other martial arts icons.
Tramontano worked for the New York Telephone Company for fourteen years in a highly specialized department. This department handled all live televised events from presidential elections to the hostages being returned from Iran in the seventies, to the Pope visiting New York, and the construction of CNN transmitting facility at the Twin Towers in New York. Tramontano’s job, at this time, was to provide Broadcasters like NBC, CBS, and ABC, to mention just a few, with a studio to transmitter link. Sometimes this link, “Video Circuit”, was hard-wired but most of the time was created by a Microwave Remote transmission.
Master Tramontano moved to Boca Raton, Florida where he was employed by a Miami based communication company, Teltec Communication Inc, where he helped engineer and build Teltec’s first long-distance microwave communications system.
After completing the Teltec microwave system, Tramontano went on to open West Boca Karate Center. Now in its 34th year, he has grown this school to be one of the largest schools in this country known for its quality Black Belt instruction and dedication to its youth.
Master Tramontano was born in 1948 in Harrison, New York. He grew up in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. Tramontano started with an RCA home study course in electronics. After completing this he attended Rockland Community College, receiving an associate's degree. He graduated with a Bachelor of Electronics Engineering from The Metropolitan College. Tramontano holds a 2nd. Class General Radiotelephone License PG-2-1658 and an Extra Amateur Radio License KN4AWO. An avid reader and seminar attendee, Tramontano follows the works of such people like Anthony Robbins, Jim Rohn, and Roger Dawson, to name a few. He is a licensed pilot, likes to play the guitar and is an accomplished pianist. Master Tramontano lives with his wife Linda, in Lake Worth, Florida. Master Tramontano is often heard saying to his students and instructors the only way you will ever know if you are in the right profession is to ask yourself this question, “If you were to win the lottery tomorrow, would you go to work the next day? His answer has always been yes.
If you would like more information concerning our Virtual Competitions Platform, please contact Ron at 561-629-6005 or set up an appointment to be taken to our platform and shown the inner working of what is sure to be the next big thing.