Hey guys and girls!

Congratulations to all of you who tested in August! You guys looked great out there.  Be sure to congratulate Lance on getting his black belt in Kali.  Also, both he and Chad were promoted to Guro at their Kali demo last month.   

Congratulations Guys!

OPEN MAT:

October's open mat session is on Sunday, October 25, 2009 from 11am until 2pm.  We will be going to Papi's Cuban Grille on Chastain afterwards.

Congratualations to all our guys and girl who competed at NAGA!!  You guys did great!!

Drew Price 1st Place in Gi Division Jeff Fajay 1st Place in No Gi Division Meghan Greer 3rd Place in both Gi and No Gi Division Nick McCall 1st Place in Kids Division

Don't forget to register for Professor Sauer's Jiu Jitsu seminar on Ocotober 10th.

Kids Kung Fu Test: October's test will be held on Wednesday, October 28^th @ 5:30pm.

Things to come for KFM: Sifu and Sihing Chris are going to Spain at the end of October to get certified in KFM’s Urban Weaponry Program and their Street to the Cage Program. Currently, we are only teaching KFM’s Urban X Program here at the school and Sifu is looking forward to adding these two new programs to the school sometime in the next year.  So be on the lookout for both programs to be added to the schedule.  For those of you wishing to add it to your current membership plan talk to one of your instructors or someone at the front desk. 

New CTP(Cross Training Program) Class:  We recently added a new CTP class on Satudays at 1pm for all students on the Cross Training Program.  The class is going to focus on the Warrior's Path Strength Program.  The training tools we'll be using in this class will be Kettlebells, Medicine Balls, and Clubbells.  

Sifu's taking over Saturdays:  Sifu has started teaching all of the Saturday classes.  These classes will be taught at an intermediate level and will be training classes. 

Be sure to check out AMAC's online video training site @ www.videomartialartstraining.com

New School Schedule

Be sure to check the website for the new schedule

But in a nutshell............

All classes will start 10 minutes later with the exception of Saturday classes because they will remain at the same times.

Classes that were canceled

Monday night JKD     /     Monday night Kali    /     Tuesday night Thai       /     Wednesday night KFM       /   Thursday night Thai    /  Saturday morning Kung Fu

Classes that were moved

Monday night Kids BJJ moves to 5pm  /  Monday night Judo moves to 6:30pm  / Monday night open mat moves to 8:10pm  / Tuesday night CSW moves to 5pm  / Tuesday night Kung Fu moves to Friday night at 5:40pm  /  Wednesday night Kids BJJ moves to 5pm  /  Wednesday night Judo moves to 6:30pm  /  Wednesday night open mat moves to 8:10pm   /  Wednesday night Wing Chun moves to Saturday morning @ 8am.  /  Thursday night Kung Fu moves to Friday night at 6:30pm  /Thursday night CSW moves to 5pm

Classes that stay the same

Kids Kung Fu / Kids JKD

What a great year we have had thus far. We have had two of our ITC members (Chad Huskins, Lance Helton) get promoted to "Guro" (Instructor) in our Filipino Martial Arts Program which they have been working hard for for the last 5 years or so.

Also Chris Benfield received his Assistant Instructor certification in KFM (Keysi Fighting Method) along with the School being designated at a "Top Team" school. Chris is also planning on traveling to Spain in October to continue training with the founders of KFM in order to gather greater knowledge and bring it home to the students. AMAC is the only school in GA certified to teach this fighting method.  

AMAC was also chosen as the Defensive Tactics source for the Marietta S.W.A.T. team which has also been a great opportunity for the school because of the exchange of information that will directly benefit the AMAC PDS/JKD program in the future.

We were also chosen by the Professor Sauer Jiu-Jitsu Association to host the 2009 Jiu-Jitsu summer camp. It was a very successful event and there is a good chance that we will be hosting this event yearly for that association. Also the monthly Open Mat sessions the school has been hosting has brought together multiple PSBJJA schools for a day of training and growth. 

We also hosted Erik Paulson in July of this year. Erik is the founder of the Combat Submission Wrestling Program (CSW) that we teach here at the school. Erik is the coach some of today’s top MMA fighters like Brock Lesnar, Josh Barnett, and Sean Sherk.

It is our goal to continually seek out knowledge and bring it back to the school in order to ensure the highest level of instruction available in the area.

As always thank you for your support!

Train Hard and Finish Strong!

Sifu Alan Baker