About Pekiti
At the age of 14, Bill McGrath began his training at Pekiti in 1975. Grandmaster Leo Gaje elevated Bill McGrath to the position of Chief Instructor in 1994. McGrath established a formal organization the next year with the purpose of preserving and advancing a single art. This group is known as Pekiti International. McGrath wanted this new organization to be free of the politics and internal conflict that had afflicted so many martial arts and organizations over the years. He designed the organization in such a way that anyone can lawfully be trained and graded in the system to achieve this objective of a politics-free atmosphere.