November 21, 2006
The Atlanta
School of Aikido will be hosting an Aikido
Seminar with Mark Leidig in early December. Give yourself an early Christmas gift
by taking a workshop in Aikido.
October 5, 2006
The Walker Mantis Academy will be hosting a two-day
Seven Star Praying Mantis Seminar in November.
If you feel the need to kick some tail like a giant green bug -- then this
seminar is for you! :-)
All styles are welcome!
Get more information here.
September 14, 2006
There is an Open Martial Arts Practice Group starting in Alpharetta. The
group's purpose:
"Open Martial Arts training to share information on style and
techniques with other Martial Artists of different backgrounds. Goal is to
learn/teach from/to a different perspective and working together."
Sounds cool! Get more information about this group on the
Practice Groups page.
August 14, 2006
The Vagabond Martial Arts Association will be conducting its 4th Annual
Spectrum of Filipino Martial Arts Seminar. The
Kali/Silat topics covered include Filipino knife training, stick
training, boxing, kickboxing, grappling, pressure
point techniques, trapping and close quarter combat, and
situational defense.
August 13, 2006
Chen Yun Ching will be coming to Atlanta to teach five
Chinese Martial Arts
seminars. Topics include Shaolin Walking Stick, Baguazhang & Baguazhang Staff,
Taijiquan and Push Hands, Xingyiquan Five Fists and Linking Form.
August 7, 2006
Kodokan, Goju Ryu Chief Instructor Sensei Kimo Wall will be teaching a
Matayoshi
Kobudo seminar on October 14th. Take a look at the
seminars page for more information.
July 20, 2006
Interested in pressure points? We've added a seminar with Ryukyu Kempo master
George Dillman on Pressure Point Techniques.
Side note: I think my wife took this class. She's great at pushing my
buttons. :-)
July 10, 2006
We've posted information on two new seminars on
Modern Defense Techniques. Check it out!
July 4, 2006
Hope everyone has a great Independence Day!
Also, the Battle of Atlanta (July 28-29) is
quickly approaching. If you like competing in tournaments, make sure to check
this one out.
July 3, 2006
Well, the donations
page turned out to be a complete bust with a grand total of zero deposited into our
tip jar. Honestly, I can't say that I blame anyone. I don't remember ever using
any other website's donation page either. :-)So, we're giving Google ads
a shot (see sidebar) in hopes of generating just enough income to cover the cost
of the hosting fees. We hope it doesn't detract from your experience on this
site. Who knows, you might even like some of the products and decide to click on
them.
In other news, we still need help
from HTML web developers who know how to fix our Mac/Linux problem. Got skill? Read
below and help us out. Your fellow Atlanta martial artists will (who use Macs
and Linux) will thank you!
June 14, 2006
Hope everyone is doing well and training hard. We at the Atlanta Martial Arts
Directory are in the process of making several changes to the site. One of our
administrators has been extremely diligent and consistent about updates. The other
administrator <cough> myself </cough> has not been quite so diligent. With these
changes, I'm hoping to ramp up my involvement again.In other news, we've added
a donations page. We're experimenting with ways to
offset the domain and hosting fees. I'm not sure if it will work or not, but I thought
we'd give it a shot. Consider it a tip jar in case you find this site useful. After
all, we are just a couple of poor martial artists. :-)
On a more technical note, we've had trouble supporting our Mac and Linux users.
The listings on the school directory pages are generated
using XML and VBScript. Apparently, this solution works well for our Microsoft Windows
users but does not work well for the Mac and Linux platforms. The unfortunate problem
is that we've been unsuccessful in coming up with the code necessary to work for
all three. So, do any of you Mac/Linux users have the skill and time to write the
code and help us test it? If so, please contact
us. We would be highly in your debt. Plus, you would finally get to see what the
Windows users have been seeing for the past eight years.
Finally, it really has been eight years since the site was started. Thanks
to all the martial artists and martial arts schools in the Atlanta-area for making
this site a success. We're here for you! (Awww, sniff.. sniff)
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