In the years 1945 through 1947 he studied boxing and wrestling at the Jacksonville Police and Firemen's Athletic Club.
Bill served as a volunteer Life Guard and Water Safety Instructor for the American Red Cross full time from 1947 until he entered the Navy in 1949.
He joined the Navy on March 18, 1949 and began martial arts studies with Professor Ray Law in Oakland, California. After that, he continued his training with Professor Richard Takamoto in Honolulu, Hawaii.
As Bill was transferred from location to location, he looked for any martial arts he could find to study. If none existed, he would teach what martial arts he had been taught.
Bill served in both the Korean Air Lift and the Cuban Missile Crisis, flying the dead and seriously injured military personnel and dependents out of the at risk locations, and on return flights to the at harm's way zones and areas bringing in needed supplies and personnel.
During his down time, Bill developed and implemented the United States Naval Air Reserve Training Command's "Flight Crew Training and Qualifying Requirements" program while continuing to perform his regular ground duties as an Aviation Safety and Survival Technician and Air Crew Ground Instructor, and directing President Kennedy's physical fitness program for all military personnel at the Naval Air Reserve Training Unit in Jacksonville, Florida.
When Bill returned to the United States, he continued his studies in Florida, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and California while pioneering the southeastern region of the United States, continuing to organize and teach clubs and classes in judo, jiu-jitsu and karate. On December 7, 1961, Bill opened the "Bill Beach's Judo & Jiu-jitsu Academy" exactly 20 years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Bill was certified by the Florida Police Standards Council and the Florida Department of Education as a Police Defense Tactics Instructor authorized to instruct Police Tactics in Florida public schools and all law enforcement facilities in the state. Bill was appointed Chairman of the National Amateur Athletic Unions National Police Committee to research and develop the finest police tactics training program today and to make it available to all United States Law Enforcement and Corrections personnel.
However, recent findings included a lack of existing defensive tactics programs in law enforcement, corrections and airline flight personnel and indicates the critical need and justification for Bill Beach's Hawaiian Jiu-jitsu System's "Police Tactics Program (SAC)" and his "Anti-terrorist Training Program for Airlines" each of which have been duly used, tested, proven, copyrighted and now made available.