Dear Sensei Mattson I had a blast at Summerfest! I was in awe of all the knowledge and skill coming together under one roof with just one purpose, to teach and learn from each other. I witnessed teachers becoming students and also students learning to be good teachers. I traveled from Nova Scotia with Victor …
Category Archive: George Mattson’s Corner
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Jul 14 2013
SummerFest update – Sunday, 7/14
Susan and I have been very busy with preparations for this year’s SummerFest. I’m very pleased to learn that most of last year’s presenters will be returning and a few close friends who I haven’t heard from in awhile will be there for the weekend. One of SummerFest’s most popular teacher, Raffi Derdarian contacted me …
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Jul 05 2013
Join your friends at SummerFest!
To my martial art friends. On-line Registration HERE! August is fast approaching and I really hope to see you at SummerFest next month.I will also be teaching Thursday (August 1st), at Darin Yee’s Plymouth dojo in a special all-day seminar called “The Event”. I will be working with kata and conditioning in the morning, kyu …
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Jul 02 2013
Joe Guidry new Presenter at SummerFest
New SummerFest Schedule has been posted. I’m still waiting for a few presenters to get back with me, but otherwise, the schedule is accurate. CLICK HERE TO VIEW My name is Joe Guidry from Brandon, Florida. I currently do not have a dojo and teach out of the Brandon recreation center and parks in the …
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Jul 02 2013
…and he vowed never to teach again.
By Robert Hunt (Originally published in the July, 2013 Wado Newsletter – reprinted with permission) A white ceiling of hazy clouds floated across the Cape Cod sky like a friendly wraith holding the sizzling July sun at bay. The breeze off the Atlantic ruffled my hair and dried the salty sweat on my skin like a …
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Jun 30 2013
New Embroidered T & Golf Shirts. . .
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Jun 07 2013
Youth Karate Tournament
Sensei George, I never got around to thanking you for letting me train with you and your students when I was there in Florida a few months back. I hope Susan didn’t mind me calling her several times trying to find the location. My GPS wasn’t synched up. But you know me, wherever I am …
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Mar 21 2013
GEM Library Archives
Amazing how many videos, pictures and memories one can accumulate in a lifetime. I have a storage locker filled with memorabilia that I’m trying to catalog and digitize for the future Martial Art Library my friends are creating. Hope you enjoy some of the memories that didn’t make it into my last book, “The Way of Uechi-ryu …
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Mar 17 2013
“Family of Uechi Organizations”
From my Newsletter Archives – 2003 Uechi-ryu Family of Organizations! by Steve Goss As many of you know, the late 1980’s heralded a major shift in organizations practicing Uechi-ryu. Prior to that time, most of us were members of the Uechi-ryu Karate-do Association. Now there are many more associations. During my last trip to Okinawa …
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Mar 06 2013
Web Site Update. . .
I receive quite a few e-mail from friends who discover broken links in the “Uechi-ryu.com” website. About three years ago IUKF hired a web administrator who took on the project of “modernizing” the site, which has been evolving from a primitive “FrontPage” format back in the early 90s, to the state-of-the-art “WordPress” which we are …
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