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9Jun/100

The Seminars of My Final Years

As many of you know, O-Sensei Phil Porter will be visiting PMA and conducting a seminar on Tuesday June 22 and Wednesday June 23 open to PMA students. The following is an announcement from O-Sensei:

The Seminars of My Final Years
By O-Sensei Philip S. Porter

The Father of American Judo

Dedicated to the Martial Arts for 67 years.

It's a great feeling to be free to travel on extended seminar tours around our beautiful country. Visiting old friends and making new ones is a real pleasure. I have found that American Martial Artists are a vibrant and wonderful group of people. After 66 years in the Martial Arts, I have mastered a great deal of technical data on strategy and tactics of the Martial Arts. In fact I seem to be learning more and faster than ever before.

Of course, at age 85, I don't have the strength, speed and other physical abilities I used to possess. I find, however, that my understanding of the techniques, especially my ability to invent and learn new variations, is growing rapidly. The spirit of the Martial Arts never changes - I'm still trying to learn that!

Every seminar I teach is now a wonderful learning experience for me. The light just keeps bursting forth as I learn more and more about the spirit and techniques of many Arts. During my final years, and only God knows how many I have left, I am determined to make every seminar, large and small, the very best one I have ever conducted.

That is my goal. It is also my promise to every one of our seminar hosts and to all the participants. Not knowing when, if ever, I will see you again on the mat, I will give you my very best every time I work with you.

You are always in my heart.

O-Sensei
Founder, USMA
10th Dan: Judo, JuJitsu, Jun Kin Shin, Taiho Jitsu, Budo Taijutsu, Beikoku Mizo Ryu JuJitsu, Shorindokai Karate and Mixed Martial Arts

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