Updates!

[Eddie Murphy]

Hello Everyone I hope you are having a very rewarding weekend so far. I want to thank Mr. Glenn for hosting the High Rank Work out yesterday. I really appreciate all the people in attendance. I also hope the training was beneficial to everyone. 

The next High Rank Work out will be hosted by Mr. David Packard in July After world's. I do not remember the exact date. Mr. Packard could you please let us all know?

Mini-Tournament. is set for August 1, 2015. We will have Traditional Form, Sparring, Weapons form, Combat weapons sparring, Creative form, Creative weapons form and board breaking. 

Additionally I am adding at no cost to you or your students a team synchronized Song Ahm form competition. I am challenging all schools to form a 3 member team to compete in this event. Rules of competition. The form performed can be  any of the ATA Traditional forms including weapon forms, except for white belt form.Team members can be any age or rank. Judging will be based on the same standards as traditional form with the addition of synchronicity. The forms can be done with are without music. 

Each team member will receive and award. An the winning school will receive a special traveling Trophy and bragging right until the next event. Since this is a special event and I do not want to incur any additional cost on future host I will provide the awards for every event where this competition is held. Additionally any school or club participating in this event must let me know prior to competition,to insure I have enough awards for all teams. Lastly this would be done as the last event of the day. However I am open to suggestion if a majority think it should be done at the very beginning. I welcome your feedback. 

Thank you sincerely 

Master Eddie L. Murphy

    

[Steve Allison]

I just confirmed that the updated version of the 4th degree form (posted in the school owners section of ataonline.com) does indicate open handed techniques start open as we discussed.

Perform all hand techniques like a color belt. Use reaction force. All open hand techniques begin in open hand position. All closed hand techniques begin in a closed hand position (fist).

hope that helps clear everything up.

steve

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[Eddie Murphy]

Hello Thank you Mr. Allison for the conformation. Also your patty cake drill was big hit with my black belt class, thank you for that. 

Synchronized form update. I just made the announcement to my students on Monday. I could not believe the response. They are beyond excited about it. So much so that they have already started forming their own teams without any input from me beyond how it works. I was not expecting that. I have been asked to up the team size to 4. So let it be down. I am going to have each of the in school teams compete in house for bragging rights. Then the winning team will compete at the tournament. I was really surprised they got so excited about it.  

August 1, 2015, save the date.    

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Eddie Murphy <murphy...@gmail.com> wrote: