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News and Special Events
News
Fall 2010 Martial Arts Classes: Fall 2010 weekend martial arts class schedules from September 11 through December 18 are now posted on our 'Classes' page.
Recent Special Events
20th Anniversary "Little Okinawa" Summer Camp, August 26-29, 2010, Flat Rock, North Carolina, and visit with Mr. RW Smith: We attended the 20th Anniversary summer karate and kobudo camp sponsored by Sensei Doug Perry, Hanshi, 9th Dan of the Shorinkan, and Sensei Jim Logue, Hanshi, 9th Dan of Oyata Shin Shu Ho Ryu-Te. Congratulations and many thanks to Hanshis Perry and Logue for sponsoring this landmark camp. We have been attending this camp since 2007, and have visited this camp on many occasions in the years before hand with Mr. RW Smith, who was an honored guest at those events. As part of the 20th Anniversary camp schedule, Dr. Cote presented a one hour seminar on Thursday afternoon on selected applications from Seiunchin kata, and then another on Friday afternoon with Tashi Troy Price on the principles of circle walking in bagua zhang as a delivery vehicle for techniques from various martial arts systems. On Saturday, Dr. Cote attended an early morning Cheng Manching tai chi session with teacher Paul Summey in Asheville, where Mr. RW Smith also makes an occassional appearance. Afterwards, I took Mr. Smith to a brunch session hosted by Paul Summey where Mr. Smith and Senior Hanshi Phillip Koeppel (visiting from the karate camp) had a great time talking about the 'old days'. In the afternoon, one of Mr. Smith's long-time students (Bart) and I took Mr. and Mrs. Smith to a late luncheon, and then returned home with them for some further talk before ending my visit and returning to camp.
Sanuces-Ryu Ju-Jutsu Taikai, August 21, 2010, Thurmont, Maryland: Dr. Cote participated as a featured instructor in the Annual Sanuces-Ryu Ju-Jutsu Taikai sponsored by Kyoshi Charles Brown at the Thurmont Dojo of Sensei Shawn Ritchie. Also in attendance were a number of senior instructors from this ju-jutsu lineage eminating from the late Dr. Moses Powell, including two of Kyoshi Brown's teachers, Hanshi Darryl W. King (a direct student of Dr. Powell) and Kyoshi Tommy May (also a direct student of Dr. Powell, and senior Isshin-ryu karate instructor of Rochelle, New York, from Sensei Don Nagle's AOKA lineage). Dr. Cote gave a one-hour presentation of the use of bagua zhang circle walking as a delivery system for various techniques from various systems. Many thanks to Kyoshi Brown and his teachers for the opportunity to present at this event. Thanks also to the many other fine instructors at this event for their marvelous insights into ju-jutsu methods.
Maryland Yin Cheng Gong Fa, Seminar with Master Zhang Yun, GM Wang Peisheng's Wu Style Taiji Quan and Taiji Jian, July 17 and 18, 2010: Our annual seminar event featuring Master Zhang Yun of the North American Yin Cheng Gong Fa Association was well attended by participants from Texas, Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, DC, Virginia, Canada, and even one person visiting the US from Australia! See our links on this website for Maryland Yin Cheng Gong Fa and North American Yin Cheng Gong Fa Association. The curriculum is listed below along with a belated photo.
Curriculum:
Sat 10:00am-1:00pm: 37-Posture Taiji Form
(opening through diagonal flying with applications)
Sat 2:30-5:30pm: Push Hands
(basic methods, 'random circles', skills training)
Sun 9:00am-noon: 37-Posture Taiji Form
(kick series with applications)
Sun 1:30-3:30pm: Tiaji Jian (Sword)
(form introduction and review, with applications against sword and staff)
Photo was taken late Sunday morning so we missed including another dozen participants who only attended the Saturday session
Click on Previous Special Events to see some of our activities from early 2010 and before.