February 2008 News

February 24, 2008 Feb 6th Happy Birthday Kris Sirisute Feb 25th Tony!! February 12, 2008 New photos from Red Belt Seminar page updated New Feature: Hall Of Fame February is “Black History Month” Please take time to remember and honor “The Tuskegee Airmen”www.tuskegeeairmen.org April is “Asian American Awareness” Month www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/AARCC/events.html February 7, 2008 January 28th: … Read more

January 2008 News

January 20, 2008 Sifu Francis Fong Seminar Slideshow: View Slideshow January 16, 2008 New Article “MMA” by Bryan Mossey Birthday Wishes December 6, 2007 Celebrated the 40th Birthday of the greatest  women fighter of all time – Lucia Ryker! January 19th Happy 75th to Cousin Paul January 24th Ray Copeland January 31st Justin Williams February 1st Victor … Read more

Johnny Curtis Wins His Pro Debut

Johnny Curtis won his pro debut in 1:40 seconds of the first round with arm triangle choke submission. This is 4 straight wins for the all American wrestler with first round choke submissions. http://www.timespapers.com/slideshows/thetreecutter/ Fairfax times newspaper article on Pro MMA Fighter Johnny Curtis and some great pics in a slideshow of his prep and fight. … Read more

Clay Johnson Is Truly An Original

Message from Master Thomas [flv:/vidclips/2007_clay_bb/2007_clay_bb.flv 320 240] I began teaching martial arts in 1978 at the Virginia Baptist Children’s home upon receiving my first black belt at the age of 18. From my first day as a student it was my desire to become the best martial arist I could possibly be. I was able … Read more

Spotlight

Clay Johnson and Ken Chun at the Inosanto Seminar in Woodbridge, VA.

Juan Perez

Juan Perez Iraq Jeffrey A. Vires, Major, USAF Manas AB, Kyrgyz Republic

November 2007 News

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Congratulations to Professor Pedro Sauer! After 24 years as a black belt he had earned his Red/Black belt and is one of only 10 ever awarded such rank under Helio Gracie. Master Pedro Sauer is traveling to Brazil next week for a ceremony with Helio Gracie. Tuesday, November 6, 2007 New … Read more

Natural Weapons of the Wheelchair

written by Ken Chun For the past twenty-three years that I’ve been practicing martial arts, I’ve gotten the same question time and again: “How do you do martial arts from a wheelchair?” I have a simple answer: “observation and adaptation”. Using what I have observed from the martial arts of Filipino Kali and Jun Fan Gung Fu … Read more

(In)Tolerance In The Martial Arts

written by Ken Chun So there I was, enjoying the breeze blowing through the academy after a seminar given by Guro Dan. It was a great seminar; everybody seemed to enjoy himself or herself after training hard. Then it happened: a complaint that I just knew would happen about a blind student of ours who … Read more