Greetings, I am proud to announce our Second Annual WMAA Buffalo Camp. This camp will be May 2nd - 4th, 2003 in Buffalo, NY. This year's event features many of the top instructors in our field. The instructors and their topics are as follows: Modern Arnis Instructors Datu Tim Hartman - Palis-Palis and Tapi-Tapi Counters Senior Master Dan Anderson - Disarming and Cross Hand Techniques Guro Dan Carr - Lock and Controls Guro A. Paul Dawdy - Anyo Anim (Form 6) Guro Chad Dulin - Anyo Anim Applications Guest Instructors GM Dr. Maung Gyi - (Bando) - Tactical Folding Knife Techniques GM Bong Jornales - (Arnis Sikaran) - Double Stick Guro Jack LaTorre - (Pekiti Tersia) - Espada y Daga (Sword and Dagger) Combat Special Guest Appearance Ed Parker Jr This year's guest of honor. Most famous for being the son of Ed Parker Sr., founder of Parker's Kenpo Karate. He is also a well established commercial artist. In addition to creating the tribute to his father (The Parker Portrait) he is also the creator of the WMAA Black Belt certificates. He will be attending our camp to debut his latest work, The Presas Portrait. This is to honor our late instructor GM Remy Presas. We are very excited and looking forward to having him as our guest. The main camp will run Friday, May 2nd until Sunday, May 4th. We will have a bonus class Thursday night, May 1st, for brown and black belts only. This class will be available at no extra cost for registered camp participants. This class will be a "problem solving" class. Our goal is to clear up any issues with terminology or procedures with the WMAA curriculum. Saturday morning we will be holding a Black Belt test for eligible WMAA members. This test is open for all to watch. Saturday evening we will be having a banquet to celebrate our gathering and to get to know the members of the Modern Arnis community better. This year's event will feature demonstrations by several of the instructors attending in addition to the return of last year's Youth demo team. For more information about our upcoming event, feel free to go to our camp website at: http://www.wmarnis.com/2003nycamp/ This site will cover possible hotel accomodations, directions to the event, what to bring and an on-line registration for this upcoming event. You can also find downloadable video clips of some of the instructors that will be teaching at this year's event. Methods of payment include: major credit cards, checks or money orders. As more information becomes available, we will be updating the website and sending out future e-mails. Feel free to contact us at the WMAA Headquarters - 716-675-0899 or e-mail us at wmarnis@wmarnis.com[/B] Respectfully, Datu Tim Hartman WMAA President
Instructor Update Greetings, I am proud to announce our Second Annual WMAA Buffalo Camp. This camp will be May 2nd - 4th, 2003 in Buffalo, NY. This year's event features many of the top instructors in our field. The instructors and their topics are as follows: Modern Arnis Instructors Datu Tim Hartman - Palis-Palis and Tapi-Tapi Counters Guro Dan Carr - Lock and Controls Guro Jeffery Leader - Disarms Guro A. Paul Dawdy - Anyo Anim (Form 6) Guro Chad Dulin - Anyo Anim Applications Guest Instructors GM Dr. Maung Gyi - (Bando) - Tactical Folding Knife Techniques GM Bong Jornales - (Arnis Sikaran) - Double Stick Guro Jack LaTorre - (Pekiti Tersia) - Espada y Daga (Sword and Dagger) Combat Special Guest Appearance Ed Parker Jr This year's guest of honor. Most famous for being the son of Ed Parker Sr., founder of Parker's Kenpo Karate. He is also a well established commercial artist. In addition to creating the tribute to his father (The Parker Portrait) he is also the creator of the WMAA Black Belt certificates. He will be attending our camp to debut his latest work, The Presas Portrait. This is to honor our late instructor GM Remy Presas. We are very excited and looking forward to having him as our guest. The main camp will run Friday, May 2nd until Sunday, May 4th. We will have a bonus class Thursday night, May 1st, for brown and black belts only. This class will be available at no extra cost for registered camp participants. This class will be a "problem solving" class. Our goal is to clear up any issues with terminology or procedures with the WMAA curriculum. Saturday morning we will be holding a Black Belt test for eligible WMAA members. This test is open for all to watch. Saturday evening we will be having a banquet to celebrate our gathering and to get to know the members of the Modern Arnis community better. This year's event will feature demonstrations by several of the instructors attending in addition to the return of last year's Youth demo team. For more information about our upcoming event, feel free to go to our camp website at: http://www.wmarnis.com/2003nycamp/ This site will cover possible hotel accomodations, directions to the event, what to bring and an on-line registration for this upcoming event. You can also find downloadable video clips of some of the instructors that will be teaching at this year's event. Methods of payment include: major credit cards, checks or money orders. As more information becomes available, we will be updating the website and sending out future e-mails. Feel free to contact us at the WMAA Headquarters - 716-675-0899 or e-mail us at wmarnis@wmarnis.com[/B]
Hi Renegade, I've added these details to the sites Events Calendar to save you re-posting this again.
Ed Parker Jr. I've just been informed that Ed Parker JR. with not be able to attend our camp this year. This is due to a schedule conflict. He will be forwarding me the Presas portrait for it's unveiling at our camp. Datu Tim Hartman WMAA
