1968-2000
Won 127 awards in National and International competition, including 80- 1st place and Grand Championships.

1968 USKA Texas Open,  Black Belt Forms Champion

1969 Colorado Collegiate Champion

1970
Won 1st Place Fighting at Osan Moo Duk Kwan Championships in Osan, Korea.

Southwest Black Belt Heavyweight Champion

1971
Won 1st Place fighting in Yong San All-American Tae Kwon Do Championships in Seoul, Korea.

Central North American Middleweight Champion

1972

United States Middleweight Champion

1973

All American Middleweight and Grand Champion

United States Middleweight Champion

1974

Western National Grand Champion

1972-76

Nationally ranked in the “Top Ten” black belt fighters by Black Belt Magazine, Karate Illustrated Magazine, Official Karate Magazine and Professional Karate Magazine.

1975-76
World Ranked Fighter by Professional Karate Magazine and Traditional Karate Magazine.

1975
Ranked among the Top Ten in the World for two years.

Four Season National Light Heavyweight Champion

1975
Outstanding Mainland Competitor, Hawaii vs. Mainland Black Belt Team Match, Honolulu, Hawaii.

1975
Winner of Full Contact Match with Blinky Rodriquez, National Karate League, Ft. Worth Texas.

1976 United States Tournament of Champions, Heavyweight Champion

1977 Founding Member of the Amateur Organization of Karate in Texas

1977-2004
Kickboxing Referee for the Professional Karate Association and Karate International Council of Kickboxing

1978
Author of Kicking Techniques for Competition and Self Defense- Ohara Publications.

1978-90
Co-producer of Kick Boxing Promotions.

1979
Professional Karate Association” Instructor of the Year.”

1970’s- 1980’s
Contributing writer for Karate Illustrated, Black Belt Magazine, Traditional Taekwondo Magazine, and Martial Arts Journal.

1980
Selected the Outstanding Tournament Referee by Karate Illustrated Magazine.

1980
Inducted into the Legion of Honor by Official Karate Magazine as “Man of the Decade.”

1981
Inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame as “Man of the Year”, an award previously bestowed upon Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, and Bill Wallace.

1989
Won 1st Place Black Belt Fighting, Texas State Police Olympics.

1989
1st Place Fighting Masters Team, International Karate Championships, LA, California.

1990
1st Place Fighting Texas State Police Olympics.

1990
Wins first term as elected official. Becomes Judge Roy Kurban.

1991
Runs uncontested for a second term as judge.

1991
Created video Practical Kicking Techniques in conjunction with Black Belt Magazine and Ohara Publications.

1994
Inducted into World Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

1995
Presented Colonel Ike Slaughter Warrior – Gentleman Award by Grandmaster Jim Harrison.

1997
Ranked “Top Seven Fighters in the U.S.” for the entire decade of the 70’s
Black Belt Magazine Yearbook.

2003
Featured in Rising Sun Productions’ New Gladiators, documentary about sport karate during the 1970’s, known as “ golden age of martial arts competition.”