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AMAA’s Hanshi Barrie Revell Promoted to 10^th Dan

Saturday the 26^th June 2010 was a momentous day in the history of the AMAA and martial arts in general in Australia.

At a ceremony at the Adelaide Rydges Hotel, AMAA President Hanshi Barrie Revell was elevated to 10^th Dan by a large gathering of senior instructors and students. Hanshi Barrie becomes only the second 10^th Dan in the 25 year history of the AMAA, the first being Grand Master William Vaughan (10^th Dan deceased).

In attendance to witness the occasion were Professor Steve Miranda (8^th Dan) and many high ranking members of his National Karate Academies including Craig Smith (Kyoshi, newly promoted to 7^th Dan), Gregg Braun (Kyoshi 6^th Dan), Chris Hutchinson (newly promoted provisional 6^th Dan Shihan), Shihan Joe De Innocentis (newly promoted to 5^th Dan), Shannon Clifford (4^th Dan Renshi) and many other senior NKA instructors and students.

Representing the AMAA were chief instructors Redman Crosby (Kyoshi 4^th Dan), Roy Fuller (Sensei 4^th Dan) and his wife Anna, Tony Caruso (Renshi 4^th Dan), Geoff Worden (Sensei 4^th Dan) and his wife Debbie and Andrew Quin (Sensei 3^rd Dan). The AMAA’s Western Australian representative Gary Simpson (Kyoshi 7^th Dan) and his wife Cheryle also flew across for the occasion.

Apart from numerous members of the NKA and AMAA, also in attendance at the function were Barrie’s wife Jenny and many of his family and friends. In all there were approximately 150 people at the celebration.

Barrie was presented with his 10^th Dan certificate and a red and gold embroidered “Grandmaster’s” belt.

Barrie then presented his two most senior students in Geoff Worden and Andrew Quin with Renshi 5^th and 4^th Dan certificates, respectively.

Taking advantage of the trip across from Perth, Gary Simpson visited Glen Middleton’s Golden Dragon Budo Ryu karate club where he and Hanshi Revell taught some different techniques to Glen’s students.

The AMAA congratulates Hanshi Barrie, Kyoshi Craig Smith, Shihan Chris Hutchinson, Shihan Joe De Innocentis, Renshi Geoff Worden and Renshi Andrew Quin on their new ranks and titles.

Full feature articles on Hanshi Barrie Revell and Professor Steve Miranda can be found in Blitz Magazines Vol 22 No 8 (pp72-75) and Vol 23 No 1 (pp66-70) respectively.

Editoral by Gary Simpson

Craig Smith Promoted

Kyoshi Craig Smith of National Karate Academies was promoted to 7th Dan. Congratulations from all at the AMAA.
Training Day
A training day will be held in November on the 14th 2010.
At this stage it will be held at the Tatakai Dojo, 29 Shepherd St, Christies Downs.

Tournament News
A tournament will be held on the 24rd of October, 2010.
At this stage it is an open tournament....all age groups....all styles.
As usual it will include sparring, kata, weapons kata, spectactular display and precision technique.
Here is a reminder of our rules.
Venue to be announced.

Congratulations to all

It is great to see what you are doing in South Australia on the martial arts scene.

I was also a student of Judo during the mid sixties, I joined Moss Hollis as an associate and established a club in Waikerie ( having studied Kodakan Judo in the UK since I was sixteen) after much 'blood, sweat and tears' so to speak and bucket loads of encouragement from Moss Hollis and his 'team'.

In the mid sixties onwards there were three females who achieved their shodan, Helene Udycz, Elke Pfau and myself ( I was called Vicky Cox in those days). I dont know if Moss kept records - I assume he did. At that time he called his dojo 'The Moss Hollis school of Judo and Karate'.

I still have one of the original club badges and my much prized belt with my name on it ( in Japanese ).

Since those days I taught Judo to many young people (and women's self defence),I returned to UK for a short time then came back to Australia. I gained my level one coaching accreditation and taught at the PCYC in Penrith NSW for a while. I also was involved in Zen Chi Ryu in its early days under Shihan Tom Slaven (deceased).

Moss was indeed a great mentor and motivator, and I was very privileged to have been associated with him in those early days.

Keep up the great work you are doing.

Kind Regards Vicky.

Kids tournament:
A kids tournament will be held on the 28th March 2010.
As usual our kids tournament will be held at the Burraghai Community Centre, Kelly Road, Modbury.

See details here.

AGM
The AGM was held on Sunday February 2nd.
All exec. positions were returned unopposed and Geof. Worden was returned as a committee member.
It was greatly received by all when Roger Coole returned to the committee after a hiatus or 12 months.
There was no change to yearly dues or any by-laws initiated under the constitution.
Roy Fuller gave a full treasury report which was accepted unanimously.
President Revell gave an outline of the direction he would like to see us set goals for during 2010.

Birthday     Greetings
Roy Fuller, who was unanimously returned unopposed as Vice President of the AMAA at our recent AGM is celebrating his 76th birthday today, the 16th of February.
The AMAA and Martial Arts community would like to acknowledge his ongoing commitment to the Martial Arts and wish him well for his 76th birthday.
Cheers Barrie
Those wishing to send birthday wishes please click here

AGM

ATTENTION EVERYONE: The AGM will be held at the Tatakai Dojo, 29 Shepherds Road, Christies Beach.

Please tell everyone you know who may want to attend....especially those who are eligible to vote.

That is this Sunday the 7th of February....looking forward to seeing you there.

The next meeting will be our AGM....all full financial members who run a club has a vote and those interstate members can vote by proxy, just forward your vote to the President, Vice-President or the secretary and it will be added to ours at the meeting.

25^th Anniversary Celebration of the AMAA

On Friday 6^th November 2009, the 25^th Anniversary of the founding of the Australian Martial Arts Association (AMAA) was celebrated at the Comfort Inn’s Waterfront Reception Room in Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia.

The night began with a series of demonstrations. Leading off with the preliminary entertainment was Kyoshi Gary....More here


Master of Ceremonies....Hanshi Barrie Revell

Shihan Joe Lamarca (founder, vice president) and Karol Stojko (founder and pioneer of full contact karate in SA and obviously influenced all tournaments had by the AMAA over the years)

Founders receive accolades from the new guard.


     Joe explains he has the distinction of of being the person who came up with the name AMAA