April – June 2008 |
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Hosts Sensei Phillip & Glenda Spears |
Grandmasters pose at Crowne Plaza Hotel |
Soke conducts seminar during event |
Chris Mason wins medal |
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Soke’s “World Head of Family Sokeship” grandmasters council held it’s 15th Annual world gathering at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in San Antonio, Texas on May 23rd – 24th . The event which featured a first ever tournament attracted hundreds of participants from as far away as Russia, Israel, Malaysia & Trinidad. Chris Mason, a beginner student in San-Jitsu was the only one who entered the International tournament with all the activities we were busy with for his first ever competition & came away with a Bronze Medal against experienced competitors. Not bad for the first time out Chris, CONGRATULATIONS! Students, Master Heinz Schedeireiter from Germany; Senseis Jimmy Rutherford, Chris Marquez, Matthew Sanchez, Phillip & Glenda Spears, as well as students Chris Mason & Natalie Hijar all received awards for their contributions/ loyalty to San-Jitsu with Soke receiving a special award from Dr Robert O’Block, CEO of the American Board of Homeland Security for his work in the “advancement of the combat arts”. Great job, guys & a special “thank you” to Sensei Phillip & Glenda Spears for doing a fantastic job of putting the whole thing together for Soke & to Sensei Matthew Sanchez as well, for doing a spectacular job of emceeing the event! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soke w/ Homeland Security Award poses at Jacksonville dojo |
Cover of World Martial Arts Magazine featuring profile of Sanchez |
An Illustrated History of Martial Arts in America |
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Soke Sanchez is featured on the cover of the June issue of WORLD MARTIAL ARTS MAGAZINE – to view the article you can follow the link at www.magazine.worldmartialartsmagazine.com . He also takes his place in American martial arts history by being featured in the new book out by famous martial arts historian, Emil Farkas entitled “AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MARTIAL ARTS IN AMERICA – 1900 TO PRESENT”. On page 217 of the book it states “Frank E. Sanchez is noted as the founder of America’s first grandmasters council, the World Head of Family Sokeship Council. Founded in 1993, the council is composed of 9th & 10th dan grandmasters & their equivalents. Sanchez is also the founder of San-Jitsu, which is Guam’s first recognized martial art system.” You can purchase the book through Rising Sun Productions whose website address is www.risingsunproductions.net or by writing to them at 15805 Chase Street, North Hills, California 91343. Also in the making is a new book on Grandmaster Sanchez’s World Head of Family Sokeship Council being produced by another famous martial arts historian & CEO of Rising Sun Productions, Don Warrener. |
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New book coming out on Soke’s World Head of Family Sokeship Council |
Book on the “Maestro”, Grandmaster Peter Urban |
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In seminar news, Soke Sanchez has been invited to appear as a special guest of the Malaysian Martial Arts Festival scheduled to take place this October in Malaysia with all expenses paid for. He will be featured in press conferences there as well as seminars demonstrating San-Jitsu – more information will be provided as the time draws nearer. We received a nice mention on the website of WAMA (Westside Aerobics & Martial Arts Club ) out of Santa Cruz, California….under an article written on the “Fighting Arts of the Pacific Islands”, since San-Jitsu is one of the few internationally recognized arts to originate from the Pacific Islands & as it is mentioned in an unsolicited article, I thought I would draw your attention to it. It explains the Pacific Island arts & their philosophies very eloquently. You can visit their link at WELCOME to Sunil Kumar of India who will be representing me there. Kumar is the General Secretary & Sifu Wickramasinghe Prasad of Sri Lanka wrote to say that he is having difficulties in taping techniques for my review. Please be assured Prasad that I will have someone from your country contact you to see if they can help you & your students with taping – keep up the training! |
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Sifu Wickramasinghe Prasad with Students in Sri Lanka |
Poland rep. GM Wieslaw Bigos (2nd from right) teaches at German seminar – seminar administrator, Toni Finken is in middle |
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San-Jitsu’s representative in Poland, GM Wieslaw Bigos wrote to say that he was one of the seminar leaders for a large seminar symposium held May 17th in Monchengladbach, Germany….. Veronika Priess – Communications Manager for the United San-Jitsu Ryu Federation of Germany e-mailed with news from the Federation there: Head Instructor, Sensei Thorsten Isringhausen of Germany gave seminars in March/ April in several cities in the Westen part of Germany, including Bielefeld, Lage & Herten assisted by San-Jitsu Black Belt, Uwe Freund. According to Veronika all were a big success with many participants taking part. |
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Seminar participants at a dojo pose for camera |
On the mats training in San-Jitsu |
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Also, on June 1st, one of Germany’s largest seminar events took place in Rahden called “Martial Arts Day” . The event was sponsored by San-Jitsu practitioner & Director of Martial Arts Association International, Master Bernd Hohle; San-Jitsu practitioner & Representative for the International Budo Federation, GM Heinz Sheidereiter; & Sensei Thorsten Isringhausen, Head of the United San-Jitsu Federation of Germany . Assisting San-Jitsu Chief Instructor, Sensei Jorg Aderhold with the San-Jitsu seminars were two local San-Jitsu Black Belts, Sandra Schonwalder & Dirk Golstein. Over 430 participants were said to have taken part in the event! |
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Sensei Jorg Aderhold (right) demonstrates a San-Jitsu technique on Dirk Golstein |
Seminar participants of “Martial Arts” Day pose for picture |
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Sensei Thorsten Isringhausen Head instructor |
Sensei Jorg Aderhold Chief Instructor |
GM. Heiz Scheidereiter Seminar Coordinator |
Sensei Veronika Priess Communications Manger |
Master Bernd Hohle (right) receives Black Belt Certification in San-Jitsu |
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Lastly, WELCOME BACK to Robert Wienhold of Ohio who has come back to resuming his San-Jitsu training. He heads a group called the North Coast Combat Arts group there in Ohio. Remember to train hard until our next newsletter! Grandmaster Frank E. Sanchez |
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