 Ford is a practitioner of Japanese jiu-jitsu, a 3rd-degree black belt student of Grandmaster Dong Jin Kim in the Jigo Tensin-Ryu lineage ("JTR Jujutsu"); he is also a 2nd-degree black belt in Hapkido and a member of the Japanese martial arts organization Dai Nippon Butoku Kai with rank certified as Sandan (3rd-degree blackbelt) in jiu-jitsu.