August of 2021 marked the 30th anniversary of Carolina Martial Arts Center here in Durham!!! Sensei Gurganus has been teaching in Durham since January 1984! In 1991 he founded Carolina Martial Arts Center! We started out in May 1991 in the drama room at UNC-Chapel Hill and then...
Congratulations to Lyla Cheatham, our student of the month for July 2021! Lyla started training at Carolina Martial Arts Center in September 2018! She recently tested for her 6th kyu(green belt) on July 22nd! Lyla moved to Bristol, VA at the beginning of August.
Great test on July 22nd! Ava Bishop, Lyla Cheatham, and Erick Lopez were promoted to green belt(6th kyu) and Jimmy Smedley, Joel and Luke Kungu were promoted to yellow/2 green strips(7th kyu)! Very proud of this testing group as they all worked very hard to get ready! Several...
Great to have visitors! Sue Gouchoe, one of CMAC’s brown belts visited and trained for two weeks! Sue currently lives in California and has been training with us on Zoom! She started training at CMAC in 2003 after watching her son Matt train for a while! Great to...
Congratulations to Sindi Juarez Perez, our student of the month for June 2021! 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 have her a gift certificate to...
Congratulations to Anthony Lopez, our student of the month for May 2021! Anthony is 5 years old and started training at CMAC in March of this year. He has been watching class for a couple of years because his brother Erick is almost a green belt! He is...
Congratulations to Meadow Wrobel and Ben Smedley for testing for 9th kyu yellow belt on April 21st! Both tested live in our outside classes and did a great job and a little extra! Meadow and Ben both started in November 2021 and both have recently received Student of...
Congratulations to Cat Dean, our student of the month for April 2021! Cat started training at CMAC in November of 2015, she had previous training in Kyokushin-kai and was looking for a new dojo! She had previously started the martial arts in the early 90’s in New York!...
Kuniba-kai International held its 3rd Zoom training on Saturday, May 1st! There were 22 countries represented and over 200 participants! Three Kuniba-ryu instructors taught training sessions on kihon, kata, and kumite drills. Hanshi Darren Myers from Virginia started things off with basics and the review of the kata...
