“WE DON’T FIGHT, WE BREAK BONES”
     
6035 Ft. Caroline. Unit 22, Jacksonville, Florida U.S.A. 32277
Phone & fax: (904) 745-6019 / Direct 24 hr: fax (904) 744-4625
Website address http://www.san-jitsu.com
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April - June 2006 Student / Instructor Newsletter
       
   
 
 
Grandmaster Sanchez featured on the front cover
of the KARATE VOICE NEWS
                   
SOKE SANCHEZ was surprised recently with a cover story appearing in the May 2006 issue of the KARATE VOICE NEWS outlining the creation of his art of SAN- JITSU on Guam (a U.S. Pacific Island Territory) & his founding America’s first successful worldwide grandmasters organization called the WORLD HEAD OF
FAMILY SOKESHIP COUNCIL. An organization which is now the largest & most elite of its kind in the world. The biography which was submitted some years back at the request of the paper’s Publisher, Kratios Grandmaster Vasilios Katsaitis features Jacksonville Hombu instructor, Sensei Jimmy Rutherford (right) & Assistant Instructor, Steve Carter (left) on the cover along with SOKE……

PROFESSOR SANCHEZ is also set to be inducted into the KARATE VOICE NEWS 2006 INTERNATIONAL HALL OF FAME on November 25th under the category of PIONEER/ OUTSTANDING EXCELLENCE.

The May issue of TAEKWONDO TIMES mentions PROFESSOR SANCHEZ as one of the grandmasters honored at the 2006 ACTION MARTIAL ARTS NEWS HALL OF FAME held January 15th in Atlantic City, New Jersey……SOKE was awarded an “OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION BY A GRANDMASTER” AWARD for his continuing contributions to the world martial arts community.


The June 2006 issue of INSIDE KUNG-FU mentions SOKE in its INSIDER Column as one of the featured teachers in past events of the GATHERING, a major seminar symposium of top martial arts instructors held each year by the MARTIAL ARTS COLLECTIVE SOCIETY in California…… A nice e-mail was also received from GUAM Magazine Publisher, Ike Torre thanking SOKE for the “beautiful article” on himself and SAN-JITSU that printed recently in his magazine.

GRANDMASTER SANCHEZ was also honored with an EXCELLENCE IN THE MARTIAL ARTS AWARD from the LONDON INTERNATIONAL HALL OF FAME held June 3rd in London, England…..
                   
And with a MARTIAL ARTS SPIRIT AWARD 2006 received recently from the INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL ARTS FEDERATION EUROPE HQ – BRANCH GERMANY for “outstanding importance, achievements, contribution & positive influence resulting from……years of experience, training & efforts in the martial arts”

A forward was also written by SOKE for a new book now on the newstands by good friend & well known Hawaiian Grandmaster Olohe Solomon Kaihewalu on his family’s style of Hawaiian Lua……The PROFESSOR will also be traveling to Valencia, Spain in October to do a seminar & to be honored there.

As a special note to students & instructors, to order San-Jitsu items please go to our website at www.San-Jitsu.com – also forward your e-mail address to the Hombu, if you haven’t done so already, so that your newsletters, as well as correspondence & notices can be sent to you faster……
   
   
   
Soke Sanchez shows off a new addition to his Dojo, a Brown Snake sculpture from Guam
                   
A special “si yuuse maase” (“thank you”) goes out to student, Reed Topasna of Guam who sent a wooden
sculpture of Guam’s Brown Snake to the dojo…..The Brown Snake techniques of SAN-JITSU are based on
Guam’s Brown Snake which is known for its aggressiveness & tenacity……

If you were not able to attend SOKE’s 13th Annual World Head of Family Sokeship Council event held on
May 26th-27th in Orlando, Florida with over 500 international guests in attendance, here’s what you missed
…..Be sure to write to the Hombu about attending next years event!
                   
Grandmaster Sanchez poses (bottom center with grandmasters of his WHFSC Council present at 2006 event in Orlando, Florida
San-Jitsu students take part in WHFSC seminar
Tennessee San-Jitsu instructor, Sheridan Lupo(left) poses with German San-Jitsu student, Dirk Golstein
   
(From left to right – back row) Assist. Instructor, Jose Rodriguez-students, Jason Sanford, Aryn Vastola, Kim Ertle, Germany Rep Sensei Jorg Aderhold-German student, Dirk Golstein (kneeling front) Senseis Jon Haupt, Jim Rutherford, Chris Marquez & Germany Rep. Sensei thorsten Isringhausen – (middle standing) Grandmaster Sanchez ((missing from group photo are Tennessee Rep. Sensei Sheridan Lupo & Texas Rep Sensei Phillip Spears)
         

Well, this concludes our news for this issue……Remember to train hard as always until next time!
Grandmaster Frank E. Sanchez 10th dan Black Belt Founder & staff

         
                               
 
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BIOGRAPHY ON RUSSIAN MARTIAL ARTS (feature on San-Jitsu)
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