Atlanta Martial Arts Center Newsletter
Published Date:
Friday, November 6th 2009
Headline Title:
AMAC Headlines
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ITC is growing! For those of you who haven’t noticed David Mitchell has joined the ITC Team. David has been training in our Jeet Kune Do/Personal Defensive System program and our Kali program for a few years now and recently joined ITC and has taken over teaching in our Youth Jeet Kune Do program. Be sure to give him a pat on the back the next time you see him in class. |
Thanksgiving Break: The school will be closed for 3 days for Thanksgiving from the 26th until the 28th this month.
The next AMAC Open Mat is scheduled for Sunday, November 29nd at 11am. The guys usually go to Papi’s Cuban Grille afterwards.
This month’s Kids Kung Fu test is scheduled for Monday, November 24th.
Section 2 Title:
Cross Training Workshop
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Sunday, November 15th 10am -11am Environmental Training |
This workshop is like our JKD intermediate sparring class. Therefore, appropriate gear is required to participate. You will need to have boxing gloves, shin guards, and a mouth piece. A cup is optional but highly recommended.
Unlike the intermediate JKD class there is no belt requirement to participate. This will be a training/coaching session for all of our Cross Training Members.
If you are not a member of our Cross Training Program and would like to attend this workshop, please talk to someone at the front desk.
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Section 3 Title:
Student Appreciation Workshop
Sifu Title:
Word From Sifu:
Another great month at the school. The Pedro Sauer Seminar went off well and the attendance was strong for the event. Mike Israel tested for his well deserved black belt in Jiu-Jitsu under Master Sauer and performed very well. Chris and I traveled to Benidorm Spain for the Keysi Fighting Method World Conference and we stayed 3-4 days after to hang out and train with the Founders of the art. It was a good experience for us as well as an opportunity to improve the program at the school. The AMAC ITC team has a new member, David Mitchell was invited to join the team last month and accepted.
Iris and I also attended the EFC summit in Miami, Florida at the first of the month. This event was an opportunity for us to improve the operations of the school and improve the overall service for the students. I have also been working with Mike Clark, a student at the school, on designing new T-shirts for 2010. Mike designed the sign and graphics for the school this year.
We have also added a second Intermediate Jeet Kune Do Class on Thursday nights. This class has only been on Tuesday night for a while now and has been very popular, so we expanded it to the second night. I am also working on a future advanced class for the Jiu-Jitsu program that will be for Blue belt students and up.
As always, thank you for your support of the school
Sifu Alan Baker
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Happy Birthday!!!!
Birthday's:
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Roland Stebbins |
5-Nov |
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David Marcus |
6-Nov |
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Devin Marshall |
6-Nov |
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David Collins |
6-Nov |
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Jordan Carter |
8-Nov |
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John Stewart |
13-Nov |
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Bill Braine |
14-Nov |
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Laura Olree |
14-Nov |
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Lance Helton |
17-Nov |
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Sarah Graziano |
24-Nov |
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Aaron Killebrew |
24-Nov |
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Lily Geiger |
24-Nov |
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Chad Huskins |
27-Nov |
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Jamil Jointer |
28-Nov |
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Published Date:
October 1, 2009
Headline Title:
AMAC Headlines
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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.
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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!!
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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 28th @ 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.
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Be sure to check out AMAC's online video training site @ www.videomartialartstraining.com |
Section 2 Title:
New School Schedule
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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
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | ||||||||||
| 8:00 AM | Kung Fu | ||||||||||||||
| 9:00 AM | JKD | 8:50 AM | JKD | 9:00 AM | JKD | 8:50 AM | KFM Urban x | ||||||||
| 9:50 AM | Kung Fu | 9:40 AM | KFM Urban x | 9:50 AM | Kung Fu | 9:40 AM | JKD | ||||||||
| 10:40 AM | Kali | 10:40 AM | Kali | 10:30 AM | Kali | ||||||||||
| 11:30 AM | BJJ | 11:30 AM | BJJ | 11:20 AM | Thai | ||||||||||
| 12:10 PM | BJJ | ||||||||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Warriors Path | ||||||||||||||
| 4:40 PM | Young Adult JKD | 4:40 PM | Young Adult JKD | ||||||||||||
| 5:00 PM | Kids BJJ | 5:00 PM | CSW | 5:00 PM | Kids BJJ | 5:00 PM | CSW | ||||||||
| 5:40 PM | BJJ | Kids Kung fu (5:30pm) | 5:40 PM | BJJ | 5:40 PM | BJJ | Kids Kung fu (5:30pm) | 5:40 PM | BJJ | 5:40 PM | Kung Fu | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Judo | Thai | 6:30 PM | KFM Urban x | 6:30 PM | Judo | Thai | 6:30 PM | KFM Urban x | 6:30 PM | Kung Fu | ||||
| 7:20 PM | BJJ | 7:20 PM | JKD | INTJKD | 7:20 PM | BJJ | 7:20 PM | JKD | 7:20 PM | JKD | |||||
| 8:10 PM | Open Mat | 8:10 PM | INTJKD | Kali | 8:10 PM | Open Mat | 8:10 PM | INTJKD | Kali | 8:10 PM | Kali | ||||
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Word From Sifu:
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
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October Birthdays at AMAC
Birthday's:
James Dixon 10-09
Kevin Joseph 10-09
Brian Meyer 10-12
Logan Townsend 10-13
Dillon Simonton 10-14
RandallPontoo 10-14
Aiden Gohlke 10-24
Gilbert Otero 10-27
Nathan Scire 10-29
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