Education
San José State University.
San José State University.
He competed in countless international competitions. He is now the VP of Martial Arts at Dollamur, Sports LP where he develops and sells Martial Arts equipment and continues to be a spokesperson and Board member for United States of America Judo. Swain competed in major international tournaments including four Olympics and five World Championships.
He is a four-time Olympian*, a five-time World team member and was the 1996 United States Olympic Judo coach for the Atlanta Games.
The United States boycotted the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Throughout his professional judo career, he spent much of his time training in Japan at Nihon University and the Tokyo Police Academy. He also trained internationally in Wimbledon, United Kingdom at the Crystal Palace Training Center with Neil Adams, in Kendal, England at the National Judo Training Center, in Seoul, of Korea at Yongin University, in Paris, France at INSEP and, in Koln, Germany at the Koln National Judo Training Center.
Despite all his travels, Swain continually returned San Jose where he trained under Yoshihiro Uchida, a pioneer for American judo. Swain graduated from San Jose State University in 1985 with a degree in business marketing and continues to this day to coach and bring more students to the program with the Swain Scholarship.
In 1987 he founded Swain Sports.
He grew the company to become a successful multimillion-dollar, international business at the heart of the martial arts equipment industry. In 2008 he sold his company to Dollamur and became the VP of the Global Martial Arts Division, where he and the company worked together to develop the next generation Flexi-Roll mathematics He is the author of two books Ashiwaza II and Championship Judo, as well as the Company-producer of several martial arts shows like Pro Judo, Pro Tae Kwon Do, and Pro Sumo which all have premiered on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. He is the producer of the Digital Video Disc series Complete Judo, Basic Judo and Basic Grappling.
Jigoro Kano Kyuzo Mifune Masahiko Kimura Gene LeBell Teimoc Johnston Jimmy Pedro Hidehiko Yoshida Toshihiko Koga Islam El Shehaby Mark Huizinga Willem Ruska Mitsuyo Maeda Euan Burton Sandra Bacher Yoshisada Yonezuka.
Swain has been honored for many of his accomplishments as an American judoka. He was named Black Belt Magazine’s “competitor of the year” in 1985, as well as Instructor of the year in 1994. In 2003 the USOC honored several athletes who were pioneers in their sports. Swain was honored as a pioneer for United States of America Judo alongside other athletes such as Evander Holyfield for boxing and Dan Gable for wrestling.
