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We will Build the Guidelines for The Martial Arts Community that Will Keep Young Students Safe.

Welcome to “This Project,” which we are working to name and define, here, in almost-real-time. This project is about laying down a set of rules, policies, and best practices for the martial arts industry –as in for teachers, school owners, and students –regarding the prevention of sexual misconduct between those who teach the martial arts and those who come to learn. We will also, I’m sure, set down some policies about the reporting and/or disclosure of sexual misconduct, after the fact.

The first thing to do is sign your name on our volunteer’s list, that is if you want to participate (and we really do want –and need — your assistance).

We are currently in the first few days of the project, so we’re not exactly sure of how far we will go or how many resources we will accumulate, as we have a number of very competent professionals, in counseling and law enforcement, who will be assisting us.

I can tell you, however, we will be moving VERY fast.

Our goals, so far:

We will build a site where volunteers may work together to produce a manifesto — a document stating policies and practices we will ask the entire international martial arts community to embrace and enforce.
We will produce a training video that all school owners and instructors can use to help bring their teams up to speed on what is permissible –and what is unacceptable — with regard to children and our own behavior, policies, and safety practices.
We will compile a list of resources and post them publically, so that anyone looking for more information will know exactly where to go.
We will call on volunteers — one hundred people at least — to begin a social-media campaign of education for the general public about the policies we’ve set down. Our goal will be to ask for martial arts schools and teachers to voluntarily self-regulate by adopting and embracing our efforts –and at the same time, to inform the general public to introduce and require their local instructors to meet these (yet to be written) specifications.

Sign on, we’ll be sending out more information shortly.

Thank you! We’ll be in touch soon 🙂

Thank you,

Tom Callos

Project Coordinator

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Grant-Sahyun has been a long time student of the martial arts and a history major and has been published and continues to promote all martial arts via the Kido Kwan, its publications, students and members. He has traveled internationally to promote the history, techniques and his trademark self defense of the martial arts and is always available to help others.

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