Dustin Koppel is the owner and instructor for MA2U. He has been involved in the martial arts for two decades now, and holds a Black Belt in Krav Maga, Muay Thai Kickboxing, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

As a competitor, he has won kickboxing championships in the light and super heavyweight categories, plus multiple Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competitions as well. He ran a successful marital arts school in Tennessee for almost ten years, working with students starting as young as three years of age all the way up to adult classes. He still works for on online martial arts university, and teaches Krav Maga to students all over the world as well as helping marital art school owners and instructors to become certified instructors.

When he and his wife Bethany sold everything they owned, including their school, in 2021 to travel they eventually found their way to Wilmington, NC. Like many others here they quickly fell in love with the charm of the town. As he is from California and she is from Tennessee, Wilmington quickly became home to them.