Weekly Martial Arts Coaching Calendar.
Please check out Colin Wee's Online Training Schedule.

News From Our MA Friends Around the World

UK: Raynerslane TKD Newsletters
UK: Combative Arts in Doncaster
US: Shotokan Karate in Benicia
US: Molum Combat Arts Association in Indiana
US: A-KaTo in Dallas
Canada: Mizu Shotokan Dojo in Canada
Bahamas: OMAS Taekwondo
Malaysia: Karate Shotokan Kata Blog
Australia: Wu Wei Dao in Western Australia
Australia: Makoto Ryu in South Australia
South Africa: Ashihara Karate

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Martial Art and Self Defence: Awards and Recognitions

Colin Wee
Colin Wee has been promoted to 5th Dan by Hanshi Tim White, Director of MLCAA. May 15 2007. Read MLCAA forum entry.

Mirielle Clark
We would like to congratulate Sensei Mireille Clark for starting with her first dojo in Canada. March 7 2007. Read forum entry.

Shane Friesen
We would like to extend our appreciation to Shane for sharing his Savate skills and time (in collaboration with Bridgeman Savate) with our organisation. January 13 2007.

John Gallagher
We are proud to test and promote Wado Ryu practitioner and Welshman John Gallagher to a well deserved 2nd Dan Black Belt. John has been a great addition to HRGB since moving here two years ago. Check out forum entry. October 2006.

Stuart Anslow
We would like to congratulate my friend Sabumnin Stuart Anslow for launching his book on Taekwondo forms. It's a fantastic development for the Taekwondo world! Check out IAOMAS forum entry. May 14, 2006.

William Mioch
We are proud to have tested and promoted William Mioch to 1st Dan Black Belt. HRGB extended itself and organised a Martial Arts Tour of Styles for Bill while he was over. Hope you had fun in Perth! Sorry about the eye! Well done, Bill! Feb 5, 2006.

William Colin Wee
We are proud to present William Colin Wee with an Outstanding Physical Performance award for completion of 100 pushups April 15, 2005 when he was just 3 years old.

John Gallagher
In alliance with Molum Combat Arts Assn, we are proud to present John with Jup Suk Dai Ji Honor Society Award 2006.

Niaal Holder
In alliance with Molum Combat Arts Assn, we are proud to present Niaal with the Most Outstanding Senior Student Award for 2004. April 5, 2005.

Mireille Clark
For outstanding work and help with the formation of a martial art bunkai manuscript ‘Fighting Heaven and Earth’. March 23, 2005.

Sonia Joseph
In alliance with IAOMAS, HRGB is proud to list Sonia on the IAOMAS Honour Roll for 2005. March 13, 2005.

Sabumnin Stuart Anslow
For outstanding work in forming an international alliance between martial arts practitioners. August 23, 2003.

Master Jeff Allen
For outstanding generosity in extending the martial arts to the under-priveleged. August 8, 2003.

Sifu Vincent Cordeiro
Honorary Black Belt with Hikaru Ryu. May 03, 2003.

Sensei Megan Hinkley
For producing a quality self defense program, and longstanding dedication in the promotion of Women’s Self Defense in the USA. May 1, 2003.

Kathy Shortland Jones
For helping promote women's self defence in Murdoch College at Perth, Western Australia. September 24, 2002.

Past Events

Updated April 2005

Niaal Holder Grading: Niaal Holder has gone through his 2nd Kyu grading and we applaude him for surviving what was a 1 1/4 hour ordeal. Niaal is the most senior of HRGB's Kyu grade students, has risen strongly through the ranks, and is well respected by all his peers. Accordingly we have just nominated him for the Molum Combat Art's Most Outstanding Senior Student Award.

IAOMAS Honour Roll Award: Congratulations to Sonia Joseph for being nominated to the IAOMAS Honour Roll. The Honour Roll recognises values that are aligned with the IAOMAS, and which complement great martial arts training. This years criteria is 'friendliness'. As a credit to our organisation, everyone voted for everyone else, and it was extremely difficult to produce a winning candidate. However, as all would attest, we are all very fond of Sonia. We've also been missing her at practice as she's had to recover from a car accident a couple of months ago that has left her with residual pain. Get better soon!

Corporate Training: Based on Colin's manuscript, we are now developing a corporate lifestyle program for a consulting group in Singapore looking to use Perth as a corporate retreat. This program will be a week long session incorporating martial philosophies and a 'white collar boxing' session. We should see some progress of this prospect later in the year.

Colin Wee Promotion: With our affiliation with the Molum Combat Arts Association, Colin's grade again came under scrutiny and it was deemed that Colin was due for a promotion to the title of 'Renshi' or 4th degree black belt. The promotion was coordinated and awarded by Director Tim White of the Molum Combat Arts Association. Shodai Bryan Robbins has been notified of this promotion and heartily approves.

Molum Combat Arts Alliance: HRGB is happy to have been invited by Molum Director Tim White. Molum Combat Arts Association features an eclectic style comprising of Kung Fu and Jujutsu. This alliance allows us to increase the transparency of our syllabus and adminstration, with Tim and Colin talking very often about such issues online. Molum has also been very supportive, extending their student recognition and awards system to our our students. Colin is still working out details of a more formal collaborative alliance partnership, but in the end, this alliance is to help us improve while retaining self steering of our own organisation.

Fighting Heaven and Earth Manuscript: Colin has been working for more than a year to form this Kata Bunkai manuscript. The premise is that the patterns used in Taekwondo contain a strategic framework that guides instruction of the style, combat innovativeness, and learning of the techniques. The manuscript has been labelled as a unique and inspirational coaching manual. Book proposals have been submitted to two well known martial arts publishers so far.

IAOMAS Month: In conjunction with the Wu Wei Dao Martial Arts Academy, Western Australian branches of IAOMAS arranged for a full month of martial arts seminars. Styles presented: Chinese Kung Fu, Wado Ryu Karate, Okinawan Karate, and Aikijujutsu. The Wu Wei Dao clan were extremely hospitable and shared with us their wonderful dojo.

Welcome to John Gallagher: HRGB extends a warm welcome to a great new addition to our club. John is a Wado Ryu Karate black belt who has recently immigrated to Perth, and now loving it. John is excited with our martial arts syllabus, and we're working with him to get him certified in our style and grade him upwards in his own style.

IAOMAS Seminars (June 2004): HRGB hosted it's first martial arts conference, with fellow IAOMAS member Wu Wei Dao Martial Arts Academy. Titled 'Doing magic with the martial arts: making your hands and feet appear from nowhere surely to astound and annoy your training buddies'. The seminar was to focus on opening up the practitioner's perspective to novel ways of looking at sparring. In exchange, Nenad Djurdevic, Kancho of Wu Wei Dao also took the time to share with us his Okinawan art and his extremely difficult exercise regiment. Everyone also enjoyed the lunch we had at Han's Cafe in Nedlands afterward.

March 23, 2003:
Team Wasabi uploads the Women's Self Defence and Personal Safety lecture presentation onto our website for the public to download for free.

March 4, 2003:
Congratulations to Thai Nguyen, Kathy Jones, and Thembi for passing to Yellow Belt.

February 11, 2003:
Congratulations to Sonia Joseph for passing to Orange Belt.

February 4, 2003
Team Wasabi participated in a demonstration at the Murdoch College sports day demo.

January 25, 2003:
Congratulations to Niaal Holder for passing to Blue Belt.

October 8, 2002:
New Tuesday martial arts beginner's course starting at our Como training venue.

July 23, 2002 - September 24, 2002:
First ever Women Self Defence at Murdoch High School. Arranged by Gail Biancotti, we have the honor of working with this very open-minded institution.

July, 2001:
Martial arts grading special event.

May 29, 2002:
Closed-door Women's Self Defence session with the Westpac Challenge Bank (Perth City).

April 27, 2002:
Scheduled course to be held at the Como Health and Fitness Centre cancelled (Como, South Perth).

April 13, 2002:
The second course with the Kung Fu and Tai Chi Academy's Fremantle branch for the second instalment of our Women's Self Defence course (Fremantle).

March 23, 2002:
Setting the precedent, Team Wasabi works with Sifu George Michelson of the Buck Sing Choy Lay Futt Kung Fu and Tai Chi Academy in Perth to conduct a large public Women's Self Defence and Rape Prevention Seminar (Balcatta).

March, 2002:
Team Wasabi Pty Ltd alliances itself with Verbal Judo Australasia to cross sell conflict negotiations courses and explore cross-marketing opportunities.

January 2002:
Full day Women Self Defence and Personal Safety course with the University of Western Australia's Summer School cancelled due to shortage of signups (Nedlands).

September 27, 2001:
Women's Self Defence special event at Freehills. Team Wasabi coordinated two extremely successful martial arts courses with Freehills, a large law firm in downtown Perth (Perth).

August 7, 2001:
Women's Self-Defence, Personal Safety and Rape Prevention. The next event in our series was held at Curtin. This was a shortened version of the original 3 hour Self-defence and Personal Safety program, but covered the same essential elements and the themes that we have been promoting throughout our development courses. This development course was fully booked and we had 27 people in total attending. Apart from some having trouble finding the venue, everyone enjoyed the self-defence program and some enquired about follow up courses and separate group sessions (South Perth).

June 27, 2001:
The first commercial Women's Self-Defence and Personal Safety course.
We have unfortunately have had to cancel this course due to the unfortunate lack of registrants. (Terrace Hotel, Perth)

May 22, 2001:
By-invitation-only preview of the Women's Self-Defence and Personal Safety course. This event was attended by eight participants, and we went through a shortened version of the Women's Self-Defence and Personal Safety course. We had quite uniformly positive feedback after this event ended, and we look forward to the next women's event (South Perth).

May 8, 2001:
Martial arts grading - all White to Green belts to participate. Congratulations to B.Lebens, T.Laurin, and D.Karrs on doing such a great job, and their promotion to purple belt in the Martial Arts! (South Perth)