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2010 USA Karate Nationals - update

2010 USA Karate Nationals

Congratulations to every one, competitors and staff alike. It was great to be back in the south. Greenville SC provided a welcome venue with southern hospitality as USA Karate held its 2010 Team Trials and National Championships. We will have a more substantive article in coming days as we have yet to go through all our photos. We do have posed shots from our backdrop and many of the podium photos that we were able to take during the event. See Photos here

Overall we had a good time visiting with many old friends and meeting new ones too. Unfortunately there were a number that were no longer with us. Yes there will always be change but it is always sad to lose old friends. On a brighter note life has been good for us in NYC. I am now teaching at web design at Long Island University and a new job at the United Nations working on the web. We truly are blessed. This keeps us pretty busy so we hope you can appreciate our efforts to get the photos online. The action shots are in progress. We will be contacting many of you for feedback and articles. We remain your news and information source - working together trying to make a difference.

US Team in Quito Ecuador

A picture says a thousand words!

We all know the saying but in this case that is what we have to offer. A special thank you to David Richmond of USA Karate for fowarding these photos to us.  It would be great if we had a story but it is apparent from the photos that the US women team did very well with a first place in kumite. We understand that Eimi Kurita and Jessica Brew also medalled in kata.  We have a few more photos to share with you. Congratulations to everyone!

2010 USA Grassroots Karate Camp Program at Univeristy of the Pacific Aug.6-9

 
Please let your students and black belts the ON LINE Registration is up and running.  They can go ON LINE and register for camp with credit card.
 
http://www.grassrootskarate. com/events/index.html
 
I'm getting calls from all over the country already, please register and lock in your place.
 
The 2010 USA Grassroots Karate Camp being hosted by Gene Tibon President -  USANKF of Northern California ,Inc.  Due to our USA Grassroots Karate Camp becoming the fastest developing Traditional Karate camp in country, we had to move to accommodate a larger group where they can all be housed at the same location.