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Dear AKANA Family Members: This summer is full of AKANA news, so let's get to it. By the way, please email me and let me know what AKANA business is going on in your school, such as tests, seminars, events, etc. and I will be glad to include them in the AKANA online newsletter. The Living Legends Jerry Piddington Roast and Living Legends Seminar are now available on DVD or VHS. House of Culture Productions did a very professional job filming and editing these videos. The Living Legends Seminar featuring the instruction of world champions Don Wilson, Jeff Smith, Howard Jackson, and Joe Lewis is awesome! This is a must for any fighter or instructor's library. It comes in a package of two DVD's or one video tape which runs about two hours. The DVD package of two sells for $49.99 and the VHS tape sells for $39.99. AKANA members get $10 off the price. The Living Legends Jerry Piddington Celebrity Roast is a two hour production also available on DVD or VHS. I am very proud of this great production which records our AKANA history. The show is serious to hilarious. Hanshi Piddington retaliates against his roasters with style and wit. The roasters are Danny McCall, Dan Wilson, Ricky, Randy, and Gene Smith, Garry Dillingham, Larry Bullard, Dennis Brown, Joe Corley, Howard Jackson, Jeff Smith, Roger Greene, Joe Lewis, Eva Leazer Piddington, and Mr. Bob Wall, oh yea, and don't forget Elvis who sang "My Way" to Hanshi with some altered lyrics. There are lots of crowd shots. This DVD or VHS production is going for $49.99. AKANA members get a $10 discount. Support AKANA and order your copies today. How's that for a commercial. China Grove SideKick Karate invites everyone to The First Annual Bushido Karate Tournament - "A Good Reason to Fight!" We are teaming up with Godstock, an organization founded in 1994 that has helped over 55 children and their families through their work with Charlotte Carolina Medical Center and Brenner Children’s Hospital in Winston Salem. Competitors can raise money by collecting pledges for each of the six one-minute continuous sparring rounds that they fight. There are lots of incentive prizes. Everyone will receive a trophy from our special guest, the one and only - Howard Jackson! How is that for a photo op. He is going to take time off from the Chuck Norris' book tour and come help us out with this cause since he knows what is is like to overcome a disease like leukemia. This event is going to spread like wildfire. If you need some brochures, call me. For more information, or to print an application or pledge sheet, go to www.sidekickkarate.com or www.akana.org or visit these websites for more information: www.howardjackson.net or www.godstock.org. How's that for another commercial. The AKANA Hanshi Test in China Grove on June 26th was awesome! God answered prayer and the three day rain quit just in time to have the event at our campsite. We had 27 students who tested. Nine students made Black Belt. Also, we had eight students who passed the Gold Tomoe Warrior Test and nine students who passed the Silver Tomoe Warrior Test. Congratulations to Mr. Vanlandingham who came from Sensei Stewart's camp and received his Gold Tomoe from Hanshi Piddington. I would like to thank Renshi Shaw and Nick Lukowsky for bringing Mr. Piddington to our event. Congratulations is in order for Mr. Lukowsky who tested and passed his 5th Dan Black Belt exam by Hanshi Piddington earlier in the week. Also, I would like to thank Renshi McClellan and Neil Godfrey for building the sweat. It was humongous and held about 20 people. The American Style Karate Team in Sandston, Va. is presenting a Renshi Shaw's on the Lawn Labor Day Weekend Martial Arts Event on September 3-4, 2004, featuring a "Talking Stick Ceremony" on Friday Night. Saturday seminars include: weapons defense, self-defense to submission holds, historical roots of American Style Karate, old style takedowns vs. today, rules of engagement "advanced mobility" training, and the AOS Five Animal Form. Instructors include: Kyoshi Steve Woodward (weapons expert), Rickey Dease, Renshi Nick Lukowsky, and Renshi Chris Shaw. The cost is $25 with no charge to camp, swim, fellowship, and relax. For more information, call Chris or Susan Shaw at 804-328-0364 or email Chris at asktchris@aol.com. And
now for AKANA business. The new colored AKANA patches are
here. In order to keep paperwork at a minimum, the way AKANA will keep up with yearly renewals is for each AKANA chartered school to automatically renew their students at certain belt ranks in their school. For example: We have 10 kyus or classes of colored belts in our school. 10th kyu white, 9th kyu yellow, 8th kyu gold, 7th kyu orange, 6th kyu green, 5th kyu blue, 4th kyu purple, 3rd kyu red, 2nd kyu brown, 1st kyu brown, and 1st dan black. I am going to sign up students who want to join AKANA before their first promotion, usually when they sign up. They get the current patch (a red tomoe in a white background). After at least a year of training, my students go to the rank of Green Belt. That is when I will renew them in AKANA. They will receive one of the new patches which will be intermediate level (a blue tomoe in a white background). Their next renewal will come when they reach the advanced level of brown belt, which takes at least another year of training. This new patch will be a white tomoe in a blue background. The next renewal is when the student reaches black belt with at least another year of training. All black belts will wear the AKANA patch with a white tomoe in a red background. The patches will add a great incentive for advancement in your system of study. If you are interested in this AKANA renewal program, please list your kyu/belt system and what rank the students will renew and send it to AKANA/P.O. Box 922/China Grove, NC, 28023 or email us at the address below. Students who apply for AKANA memberships or AKANA renewals will also receive an AKANA membership certificate. Sensei Troy Price, who designed our Tomoe and Living Legend certificates, has designed an AKANA certificate that every member will be very proud to display. It looks awesome! Sensei Price ordered the kanji for American Karate Academies National Association which will be displayed on the certificate. We are putting the finishing touches on it as we speak and I will have them ready in another week. Now, the only time a student will receive an AKANA rank certificate is when they fill out an AKANA application marking promotion and providing the date and rank.
The
AKANA application form serves the following three purposes: AKANA School Charter Annual
Membership or Renewal AKANA Individual Membership or Renewal Note: Each AKANA chartered school must record their ranking system with AKANA headquarters. AKANA Rank Certificates AKANA Patches If there are any questions, please call me or email me. Also, AKANA chartered school memberships are due for schools who did not add at least 10 more AKANA members since March 31 of last year through March 31 of this year. You can check the list on AKANA members page. Please let me know if updates are correct. Thank you.
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