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A Travelling Ronin

Action Martial Arts

Convention Review

The Great, the Good

and the Ugly.

By: Martin “travelling ronin” FranshaM

BACKGROUND: The Action Martial Arts Maga- THE GREAT
zine & Hall of Honours Convention is an annual
event in Atlantic City. Put together originally by The Seminars: One of the major strengths of this
Master Alan Goldberg it now is one of the largest convention was the fact that you had so many
gatherings of Martial Artists around the globe.* Martial Artists getting together and exchanging
Knowing that several of my friends were going to knowledge. I had the privilege of training with
be teaching at the convention I couldn't wait to some very well known people like Robert Samuels,
check it out. Bill "Superfoot" Wallace and Michael Jai White.
Certainly star power was on hand giving seminars.
The event was a fantastic time which had some
solid highlights and good general qualities. Howe- However, it wasn't just the star studded seminars
ver, like any event there were some parts that need that stood out. I attended a great seminar on
improvement. I will cover the great aspects of the Knife Defense Instruction with Nik Farooqui and
conference, the good aspects and the parts my another on Superior Striking with Tom Lugo. In
friends and I thought were ugly. fact all the teachers whose seminars I attended
were great. This speaks a great deal to the vetting
process that Master Goldberg puts into selecting
who will teach.

ADAPTIVE MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION:
Adaptive Martial Arts blew me away. A huge
component of Martial Arts is physical fitness and
strengthening your body. Yet, so often we forget
that there are people who are challenged mentally
and physically but would love to participate in
Martial Arts. If Martial Arts is truly for everyo-
ne then it actually has to be for everyone which
means catering to the deaf and blind, those mis-
My friend Sifu Tom Lugo drives a punch into my sing limbs and the autistic.
solar plexus.

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