Hi,

Nice website done.
Nice to have you in our online group.
You are indeed very experience in quite a few arts.

Maybe you can have some training pictures online for people to take a
look.

Good Luck!:)

Daniel

--- In hapkidoflyingeagles@yahoogroups.com, Jacqueline Overton
<jackieaoverton@y...> wrote:
> Hello, my name is Jackie Overton and i am new to this
> group. I am heavily involved in a number of martial
> arts including hapkido, ninjutsu, grappling arts, muay
> thai, krav maga and mamba-ryu. I would like to invite
> you, one and all, to the intro to combat grapping
> seminar held at the Kaizen center where I teach and
> train. Thanks and I hope to meet some of you there!
>
> INTRODUCTION TO
>
> COMBAT GRAPPLING SEMINAR
>
> July 12th-13th, 2003 in San Diego, CA
>
> Presented by:
>
> The Kaizen Center for Strategic and Combative Arts
>
> www.kaizen-center.com
>
> About the Seminar: We will be covering techniques
> from Judo, Japanese Jujutsu, Brazilian Jujutsu,
> Russian Sambo, and Olympic Wrestling. Techniques will
> include: takedowns, throws, wrist locks, arm locks,
> leg and ankle locks, chokes and neck locks, pins,
> reversals and sweeps, etc. The cost is $199.00 and
> enrollment is limited. Payment must be received by
> July 3rd, 2003 and is non-refundable. Registration at
> the site will be $250.00. Videos of the seminar will
> be made available for a nominal fee to those in
> attendance.
>
>
>
> About the Instructors: James Alexander Overton was
> born in San Francisco, California, August 19th, 1963.
> After traveling extensively throughout the continental
> United States, his family moved to Europe in 1971
> where he began his martial arts training at the age of
> 13. Thrust onto the gang-infested mean streets of
> southern Europe, James found ample opportunity to put
> his martial skills to the test, often in encounters
> against boxers and other martial arts stylists. In
> addition to many scars, these experiences gave him an
> eclectic reality-based perspective on hand-to-hand
> combat still present in his training regimen today. In
> 1981, at 18 years of age, James returned to North
> America, residing in several major cities in Eastern
> Canada where he trained extensively in many arts,
> including Tae kwon do, Judo, amateur boxing, and
> professional (PKA) kick-boxing, among others. In 1990,
> based on his extensive and eclectic training
> experience and street-fighting knowledge, he founded
> and taught the art originally known as Black Mamba,
> later renamed Mamba-RyuTM.
>
> In 1995, after completing a Bachelor of Arts, Honors,
> and a Master of Arts degree from Queen's University in
> Canada, James moved to California in order to pursue
> graduate work at the University of California at San
> Diego. He graduated from UCSD with a Master of
> Science degree in Cognitive Science, while
> simultaneously completing a second Bachelor degree in
> General Science ("pre-medicine") through the
> University of Waterloo. During the years following
> his return to California, in addition to his own
> martial studies and academic work, James dedicated
> himself to training and coaching his son Jimmy (James,
> Jr.) through an illustrious competitive career in
> grappling sports, including several United States and
> Canadian Judo championships, a California State
> championship in Brazilian Jujutsu, and positions on
> the Stanford wrestling team and the Canadian Junior
> Men's Judo World Championship Team. In 1999, 2000, and
> 2001, James was awarded the prestigious Best Coach
> award in Canadian Judo for excellence in coaching.
>
> Currently, James is pursuing his Ph.D. in
> Clinical and Health Psychology, completing an advanced
> professional executive protection program, and working
> part-time as a hypnotherapist. His dissertation
> research centers on the neurobiological basis of the
> imagination and imaginary states of the mind-brain.
> James has published ground-breaking and award winning
> articles in the fields of Latin American Literature,
> clinical hypnosis, shamanism, and the neurophysiology
> of imaginary states.
>
> James is the head instructor of The Kaizen Center for
> Strategic and Combative Arts in San Diego, CA, where
> he teaches Judo, Japanese and Brazilian Jujutsu,
> Russian Combat Sambo, Muay Thai, Krav MagaTM (Israeli
> military self-defense), Hapkido and Combat Hapkido, as
> well as Mamba-RyuTM and Ninjutsu. He will be assisted
> in this seminar by his son Jimmy.
>
>
>
> For more information contact James Overton at
> jamesoverton@k... or call 858 336-4009.
>
>
>
> Check us out: www.kaizen-center.com!
>
>
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