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PAWMA News Uniting and Empowering a Diverse Community of Women and Girls in the Martial Arts PAWMA News Uniting and empowering a diverse community of women and girls in the martial arts. Vol. 34 No. 3 Summer 2011 PAWMA Camp 2011 Labor Day Weekend, September 2-5, 2011, Seattle WA Camp housing information. PAWMA Camp 2011: Just Around the Corner 34th Annual Training Camp - Labor Day Weekend 2011 September 2 - 5, Seattle WA Jen Argle PAWMA News editor-in-chief Feel that excitement in the air? That means camp is just around the corner! This year’s camp will be held at Miller Community Center in Seattle on Saturday and Sunday. Camp will formally end with the closing ceremony on Sunday, but there will be a bonus workout on Monday for everyone who just can’t get enough PAWMA camp. Friday’s opening ceremony and Monday’s bonus workout will be held at Seven Star Women’s Kung Fu at 525 21st Avenue in Seattle. We have a great lineup of instructors with an eclectic offering of classes, as usual. Including: Taekwondo, Kajukenbo, Taiji. Aikido, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Yoga, Cha Yon Ryu, Qigong, Wu Chien Pai, and Wushu. You can click over to Camp 2011 Teachers to read the list of instructor’s and their bios. The planning of this year’s camp brought new challenges to the board and forced us to think outside the box in an attempt to overcome the issues faced by the organization. This year’s theme, Spirit Rising, fits perfectly with our goals for the future of the PAWMA organization and wishes for you, the women who come together and make it happen. PAWMA News • Vol. 34 No. 3 • Summer 2011 2 This year we are going to have new housing, meal, and transportation options available. In previous camps we’ve all stayed at the same facility and had classes and meals there as well. This year we will be having classes together, but staying in different locations and where you stay is up to you. Remember, if you are staying at either the 6th Avenue Inn or the Hotel Nexus a group rate is available. Reserve your room at 6th Avenue Inn by July 15 or Hotel Nexus by August 25 and say that you are with the women’s martial arts group, PAWMA. Group rate rooms are not guaranteed after these dates. For help with making housing arrangements, email Patty O’Linger [email protected] We would appreciate your feedback on the changes as well as anything else. We look forward to seeing everyone! Why We Come to Camp For over three decades PAWMA has played a huge role in the lives of the female martial artists who have attended. As we come upon the 34th year of camp we felt it only appropriate to highlight the voices of current and past board members sharing what camp means to them. Women, onesies and twosies in small dojos all over, can see how many women martial artists are around. It is exhilarating, a relentlessly positive atmosphere. It opens my eyes to other styles and encourages me to improve in my art. --Keta Tom, past board member PAMWA Camp is a well of inspiration for me. It’s the place where I get to meet incredible women and phenomenal martial artists who actually let me see how good female martial artists can be. --Rosanne Boudreau, current board member What do I love about PAWMA camp? Well, I love being outside-- the rustic camps are my favorite. It’s great to see old friends and find out what they are up to, and make new friends. I tried my first Judo class at PAWMA camp, and that’s led to a 2nd art, a whole different perspective on martial arts, and new friendships. Shockingly, of my original gang of KarateWomen (I first came to PAWMA in 1986, I think), I am the only one still regularly attending PAWMA. So for me, my PAWMA connections have been much longer lasting than my dojo buddies. Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists 2 PAWMA News • Vol. 34 No. 3 • Summer 2011 3 On a personal note, I met my wife at PAWMA camp-- obviously that is a hugely important part of my life that impacts me every day! --Leslie Lippard, past board member I love PAWMA camp because it lets me stretch my boundaries. I get to try other martial arts. I get to learn in a safe and fun environment. And I love spending the weekend in the company of other women martial artists who understand how important martial arts is in my life. --Marie Jackson, past board member Camp provides a great opportunity to meet and train with other women martial artists. It’s fun to try different martial arts or attend workshops with women from different areas who practice your style. The instructors are among the highest ranking women in their styles. Attending PAWMA enriches my practice for a whole year and I love the women I have met at Camp. --Sue Leary, past board member I first came to PAWMA camp 26 years ago and I look forward to it every year. I made friendships with women all over the country and maintained them just by seeing them each year at camp! It’s also been a great support system for many of us as we moved from student to teacher roles and were able to share our trials and tribulations. I encourage any woman training in a martial art to check out camp-you will find it to be fun and may discover lifelong friends waiting for you there! --Sifu Michelle McVadon, Elder Counsel I came to my first PAWMA camp after nearly ten years of training and couldn’t believe I waited so long! It was inspirational, motivating and just plain fun to share and learn with a whole community of other women who understand why we spend our time and energy practicing martial arts! --Jen Sweigert, current board member Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists 3 PAWMA News • Vol. 34 No. 3 • Summer 2011 4 PAWMA camp opens up doors to see the world from many different perspectives, creates an opportunity to learn from people all over the world, inspires personal growth, and re-energize my passion for the martial arts. --Elaine Powell, current board member Why come to camp? Because camp generates “aha!” moments... Because the wonderful teachers and classes at camp always give me something I can share with my students --Silke Schulz, current board member PAWMA camp was a wonderful and enriching experience for me. An intimate experience of respect and friendships new and old, in an environment of sharing skills and a common passion in the martial arts. --Helen Yee, current board member Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists 4 PAWMA News • Vol. 34 No. 3 • Summer 2011 5 My Major Martial Arts Experience Shifu/Sensei Koré Grate When I was asked by our current PAWMA President to write an article about “a major experience I have had in my martial arts career”, I thought to myself “There have been so many that have touched my life, and so many that have moved me to write and share in the past.…so what could I write that is truly my number one MAJOR experience?” I have written about my trainings and adventures in China, about training, about teaching, about how I see everything I do as an extension of my martial arts from competing in barrel racing with my horse to having a hip replacement, I have written about all the seminars and camps that I have attended or organized, all the anniversaries and celebrations of my school, of my PAWMA family schools, all the promotions, all the struggles and joys, of death and birth. What is the most prevalent memory/experience that always seems to rise up and face me as if it was happening again? That would be the memory/experience of my very Photo courtesy of Koré Grate. first PAWMA Camp in 1982 at Camp Minualta in the Sierra Mountains of northern California. I trained in a school that had few women, and a lot of lovely, strong men who I still to this day I call my brothers. I loved my teacher, also male, but felt I was missing something that directly spoke to me as a woman in the martial arts. When my dojo sister, Ginny Howe, told us that Sifu Michelle Dwyer (one of the original founding mothers-pre-PAWMA) had asked her to teach healing arts at a special martial arts camps just for women in the mountains, and did we want to come too?…We all said yes! We were four women from Wu Tao Kuan-the only four women training at that time. We thought it would be fun to all go camping together. Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists 5 PAWMA News • Vol. 34 No. 3 • Summer 2011 6 We each arrived with our (one)training uniform, belt (white), sleeping bags, canteen, sweatshirt, t-shirts, shorts, sneakers, flip-flops, a few sundries, undies, and a bathing suit (they told us there was a lake we could swim in). The check-in was outside the giant log cabin room where we would get our vegetarian meals cooked by our one hired cook (I loved the food, but that was not the consensus at the time) and after meals, it would double as one of the training areas and where the demo would be held. The other training areas were outside in the archery field, or down by the lake or, on the folding mats which were on the cement patio right outside the big hall.
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