Category: News

Student of the month for December 2020!

Congratulations to Joe Kelly, our student of the month for December 2020! Joe started training at CMAC in May of 2009! Joe recently tested on Dec. 13th, 2020 for black belt(Shodan)! Joe is involved in all aspects of CMAC, including karate, kobudo, iaido, sparring, demos, fund raisers and...

Advanced testing in December 2020!

Congratulations to everyone who tested, both in person and virtually on December 12th and 13th! Advanced testing for green through black belt took place on these two days! Lindsay Garner tested for 6th kyu, green belt! Adam Weiss, Tray Batson, and Chris Alford tested for 5th kyu, green...

Student of the month for November 2020!

Congratulations to Marc Mitzner, our student of the month for November 2020! Marc started training at CMAC in April of 2013! Marc recently tested and was promoted to brown belt(sankyu) on Dec. 12th, 2020! Marc in active in all CMAC activities and is always there to help with...

Student of the month for October 2020!

Congratulations to Jackson Wilfong, our student of the month for October 2020! He has been training at CMAC since March 2019! Jackson is six years old and is a first grader at Easley Elementary School. Jackson started martial arts to develop more core strength and coordination! His favorite...

Dojo visit from Sam Sykes!

It is always a pleasure when our former students come to train when they are in town. It was great to see Sam Sykes, one of CMAC’s black belts, when he came to our outside training on Wednesday, October 6th! Sam started training when he was 6 years...

Student of the month for September 2020!

Congratulations to Debbera Carson, our student of the month for September 2020! Debbera started training at CMAC in the summer of 1996! She started training to deal with the stress and lack of physical activity of graduate school at Duke! She has been training ever since! She now...

Student of the month for August 2020!

Congratulations to Pauline Myers, our student of the month for August 2020! Pauline has been training at CMAC since January 2019! She works for Duke University Medical Center as a nurse manager for a float pool! Pauline started training to learn self defense, get exercise, and have fun!...

Student of the month for July 2020!

Congratulations to Ava Bishop, our student of the month for July 2020! Ava is 10 years old and has been training at CMAC since July 2018! She is in the 5th grade at Pathways Elementary School in Hillsborough where her favorite subject is math! Ava started training to...