Why promotions?

Because other practitioners will have an idea of what you know and how to treat you, such as, what kind of falls can you safely be asked to take, or where the instructor should begin introducing new information. Colored belts give the student a way to gauge what he or she has achieved in an overview of the various levels; the various belts help one to know their place in the hierarchy of the dojo--such as to placement during the opening and closing of class. The instructor can quickly tell how to organize the class depending upon who is in attendance and what level they are. Finally, colored belts gives the student a sense of "movement" in their special "journey" toward greater personal achievement and mastery over one's self.

 

SUGARPINE AVIATORS MARTIAL ARTS (SAMA)

PROMOTION HISTORY  

 

DEWOLF, ALAN                   4-26-12                3rd BLUE

FOULK, ROBERT                6-27-11                 3rd BLUE

 

HEMSLEY, KYLE                  8-23-10                 3rd BLUE               9-16-10              2nd BLUE              

                                                10-18-10                1st BLUE                11-22-10               GREEN

 

JACKS, WILLIAM                7-21-11                 3rd BLUE                8-1-11                2nd BLUE

                                                  9-8-11                    1st  BLUE              10-6-11                GREEN

KIMMEL, AARON              7-15-10                    3rd BLUE               8-5-10                   2nd BLUE

                                                9-6-10                      1st BLUE                10-28-10               GREEN

                                                1-27-11                   3rd BROWN            12-15-11            3rd  BROWN

 

MILES,   TOMMY                8-31-09                3rd BLUE               11-30-09               2nd BLUE              

7-22-10                 1st BLUE                10-28-10               GREEN

12-23-10               3rd BROWN          2-10-11                 2nd BROWN

5-5-11                   1st BROWN            12-15-11                SHODAN

 

McLEOD, MIKE                   6-27-11                 3rd BLUE            10-20-11                2nd BLUE

                                                2-13-12                  1ST BLUE

 

OGLESBY, TOM                  7-1-10                   3RD BLUE               9-23-10               2nd BLUE

                                                2-3-11                   1st BLUE               

 

PEREZ, JIM                          11-30-09               3RD BLUE               9-23-10               2nd BLUE              

                                                4-11-11                 1ST BLUE                6-26-12                GREEN

 

TAYLOR, WILLIAM            4-26-10                 3RD BLUE               9-23-10                 2nd BLUE

                                                1-20-11                 1st BLUE                 1-31-11                 2ND BLUE

 

YIU, ALEX                             3-25-10                 3RD BLUE               7-15-10                 2nd BLUE              

8-23-10                 1st BLUE                10-28-10                 GREEN

1-10-11                 3rd BROWN          2-10-11                     2ND BROWN

5-5-11                   1ST BROWN            3-15-12                  1ST BLACK

 

 

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DOJO GENEALOGY

 

A BRIEF-BRIEF LINEAGE HISTORY OF SUGARPINE AVIATORS MARTIAL ARTS

 

Text Box: CHINESE KUNG FU Lion’s Roar tradition + Related systems; Lama Pai, Hop Gar, Tibetan White Crane; closely guarded and modified by the Tibetan monks.

 

  

 

 

Text Box: JAPANESE JUJITSU Ninja – Open-handed close combat using all forms of grappling and using the attacker’s strength against him.    

 

 

 

Seishiro Okazaki moves to Hawaii as an emissary for

for the Emperor of Japan, becomes sick and studies

Text Box: In Hawaii, Seishiro Okazaki creates Dan Zan Ryu creating a new martial arts system with techniques picked from many schools of thought. Bud Estes was one of his students.

 various martial arts to cure himself. 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Bud Estes brings Dan Zan Ryu to Chico, CA in the late 1940’s & establishes the AJJF, becoming Judan in 1971.

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                

Johnny  Moore studies under

Bud Estes and Lamar Fisher

Beginning in 1968. After 1971 Johnny studied at other dojos.

*      In  2009 Johnny Moore started his own dojo and named it Sugarpine Aviators Martial Arts (SAMA).

 

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