On Wednesday November, 30th, we demonstrated and taught a class at Hope Valley Elementary for Multicultural Night! The demonstration included basics, kata, jujitsu, and kobudo. Specials thanks to Yuquian, Marc, Robert, Chris, and Yunmiao for coming out to help demonstrate and represent CMAC. Great job everyone! After the...
Congratulations to Sue Gouchoe, our student of the month for October 2022! Sue has been a longtime student of Carolina Martial Arts Center! She is currently a Ikkyu brown belt. Sue started training in 2003 after her son, Matt, had been training for a few months. Having been...
On October 29th, CMAC took a small 5 person team to compete at the Alamance Open in Burlington, N.C.! Competition consisted of kata, weapons kata, and sparring. Our team consisted of Brian Shaw, Lindsay Gardner, Sindi Perez, Brian Lopez, and Sensei Gurganus. Results were as follows: Brian Shaw...
Congratulations to Ryder Strickland, our student of the month for September 2022! Ryder started training at CMAC in January 2020, right before the pandemic hit. He took a 2 year break and started back in April of this year! Ryder is nine years old and is a third...
Congratulations to all who tested in August and September! Left to Right are Ryder, Camille, Henry, Shamir, and Arlo. Henry tested for yellow(9th kyu) on August 24th. Ryder, Camille, and Shamir tested for yellow(9th kyu) in September. Arlo also tested in September for yellow/green tip(8th kyu). Great job...
Congratulations to Mary Walters, our student of the month for August 2022! Mary started training at CMAC in December of 2015. She also trained at the SafeSkills dojo before coming to CMAC! Mary is a senior at Riverside High School were she is also on the field hockey...
Congratulations to Jimmy Jenista, our student of the month for July 2022! Jimmy is 8 years old and is a 3rd grader at Morehead Montessori Elementary school. His favorite subject is math! He has been studying karate for almost a year. Jimmy started taking martial arts in hopes to...
Congratulations to Sindi Juarez Perez, our student of the month for June 2022! Sindi is originally from Chiapas, Mexico! Sindi started training at CMAC in February 2019! Sindi started training after Sensei talked her into it after she watched her son Brian training for several months and Sensei...
Congratulations to everyone who tested on June 30th! This was the first test we have had inside the dojo in over two years! Everyone has been working hard outside to prepare and get ready. Great job to (L-R) Brian Bishop, Raghav Swaminathan, Adreanna Wilkerson, Ben Smedley, and Jimmy...
Great weekend of training and teaching at the 2022 Shuri-Te Martial Arts International Conference in Fort Mill, South Carolina! The event took place over the weekend of June 17th-19th! Four to five classes were offered during each session in a variety of martial arts from A-Z! There were...