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WORLD GRANDMASTERS COUNCIL Oct. – Dec. 2019 Ph: (904) 361-9218/ Fax: (904) 744-4625 (24 hrs/day) P.O. Box 8395, Jacksonville, Florida USA 32239-8395 Http://www.whfsc.com / [email protected] America’s original World Head Founders/ elite Masters Organization – est. 1992 Whatever Holiday you may celebrate & whatever His Holy Name you may know Him by (to me, he is Jesus). He is the one TRUE Grandmaster above who watches & takes care of us all. To Him we are indebted & to Him we give all the Glory. We PRAISE His holy name & may He in his infinite wisdom Bless all of our families with love, compassion & kindness now & in the coming New Year…… As always, before we begin with our international news, we would like to pay our respects to those who have passed on & to mention the trials, as well as accomplishments of our members in their personal lives…… From Arkansas, we are sad to report the death of Hanshi Tom Hunnicutt who passed away on December 1st from congestive heart failure. Tom was a decorated Marine veteran, a direct student of O’Sensei Hohan Soken & the Head of Shorin Ryu Matsumura Bushi Jutsu. His ideas also contributed to the development of the Marine Corps close combat training program in the mid 1990’s; From Arizona, Shihan Dana Abbott’s Brother, Kennith Abbott Jr. passed on November 11th ; while Suro Jason Inay’s Uncle also passed in November; & lastly on December 12th, our member in England, GM Richard Hopkins’ Brother, Eddie Hopkins passed away from Leukemia. May the good Lord look over these dearly departed & may their loved ones be comforted by the Hand of God…..In health news, GM Ted Gambordella of Texas is dealing with prostrate Cancer & is in need of assistance to help with his medical surgery & expenses. You can give anonymously as I did, but please give whatever you can to help. His GoFundMe account is: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ted-gambordella039s-prostate- surgery?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=m_pd+share- sheet O’sensei Hohan Soken w. Hanshi Tom Hunnicutt Shihan Dana Abbott Suro Jason Inay GM Richard D.D. Hopkins Dr. Ted Gambordella In happier news, the following members celebrated their Anniversaries this quarter……GM Yogi & Alice Seguarra of Canada celebrated their 6th Anniversary on Oct. 5th ; Master Olando & Deena Rivera of Florida, on Oct. 22nd; GM Michael & Justine DeAlba of Calif., their 29th on Nov. 1st; Shihan Jimmy & Kimberly Rutherford their 1st in Florida on Nov. 2nd; Master Michael & Maria Lograsso their 30th on Nov. 3rd & lastly, Master Bob & Donna Gomez in Calif. their 30th Anniversary on Dec. 2nd . CONGRATULATIONS people on your Anniversaries & may you have many, many more to come! (if I missed yours, please be sure to let me know. Thanks.) 2 In international news……. We would like to begin our international news with some e-mails I received from members which I thought would be of interest to our members. The first one is from one of our iconic members in Israel, Dr. Dennis Hanover of DENNIS SURVIVAL JUJITSU & the second is from member, Don Warrener in California who is one of America’s top martial arts historians along with GM Emil Farkas & of course, the late John Corcoran: From: Dr. Dennis Hanover <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 12:51 PM To: Frank Sanchez <[email protected]> Dear Grandmaster Sanchez i would like you and the council to know that i hold you in great esteem in bringing all the grandmasters/masters together as one family. I have given 70 years of my life to the martial arts and now i have one of the biggest centers in Israel with over 40 gyms in Israel under the Dennis Survival Ju-jitsu with over 3000 black belts up to 10th Dan. This year will be my 38th championship in the name of all my soldiers who fell in the Israeli wars. There are over 600 qualified teachers but on the other side we have given 700 unwanted children barmitzvuhs over a 60 year period and we help and look after hundreds of unwanted children under stress and hardship. I want to thank you the council for giving my country and myself the honour for all the title's you have bestowed on me in all these years and I will never forget it. But I'm 82 years old and my both knees are very injured and i cannot travel anymore but i still teach standing and sitting. I will never forget the respect and honour you have given to me. If ever you can come to Israel i will give you the respect and honour which you deserve. Sincerely Dr. Dennis Hanover From: GM Frank E. Sanchez >[email protected]> Date: Sun, Oct 13, 2019 To: Dr. Dennis Hanover >[email protected] Dr. Hanover, Thank you for your message which I received the other day. You are of course an icon there in Israel and it is my honor to know you and to have you as a member of the World Head of Family/ Sokeship Council. It is understandable about the injuries you have suffered over the years from training and the fact that you are not able to travel to our events now. You are still a valued member of our Council and I thank you from my heart for your continued support of myself and this Council and for most of all, being a Brother of mine in the martial arts. I hope to one day come and visit you to pay my respects in return. Your Brother in the Arts, GM Sanchez World Head of Family/ Sokeship Council [email protected] (Note: the above e-mail is also manned by various members of the Masters Division who are allowed to access & respond on behalf of the Council, as well as myself. For personal correspondence to me, please use [email protected]. Thanks. ) This 2nd e-mail as I said is from Don Warrener regarding a project that he & GM Emil Farkas are working on. After writing this message to me on Facebook, I responded that I would place his e-mail in this newsletter. So, that anyone reading it would be able to respond directly to him if they are interested in participating. 3 From: Don Warrener>facebook messenger Date: Mon, Dec 16, 2019 To: Soke Frank Sanchez>facebook messenger Hi Frank, EMIL and I are in the process of setting up something huge. As you may know EMIL has well over 5000 old photos upstairs at his dojo and I have over 2000 in my computer plus I have 100’s of hours of video trailers. We are combining all this for a massive web site that I am building for us that will be free to everyone who wants to look around on it. If you have any photos of various things over the years that we can use on this site we would appreciate them. Again it will be all 100% FREE TO everyone. If you know of others who might have photos or old video please let me know or better yet send them my way please and thank you. Don Warrener [email protected] Our member, General (GM) Alexander Retyunskikh from Russia conducted an international ROSS seminar in Belarus in early December for participants from Belarus, Scotland, Tatarstan & various parts of Russia…..Swedish member, GM Lars Enoksen conducted a seminar in the Viking Art of Lausatak/GLIMA in Costa Rica. Here is a video clip of that seminar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dlX4_h5mhw&t=23s&fbclid=IwAR0jbz76P0LGi1FdbOKXYPZAgA_c7ci6cAO RXFP3l8pI7IHtlyOLr4o6lsA ……Member, Professor John Theiren of Canada had his CAPITOL CONQUEST event on Nov. 1st, 2nd & 3rd featuring exhibition bouts by kickboxing icons Theriault, Ladouceur, WHFSC member Wallace & Slocki to benefit the MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION. Seminars, including one entitled WOMEN POWER HOUR featuring women martial artists, a martial arts demo show entitled KOBUDOMANIA & awards banquet……& the PHILIPPINE KALI ARNIS FEDERATION (PEKAF) which includes WHFSC Members, GM Rene Tongson of the INTERNATIONAL MODERN ARNIS FEDERATION (IMAF) & GM Bernardo (“Butch”) Sepulveda of the WORLD ESKRIMA BALINTAWAK ARNIS FEDERATION (WEBAF) as Board Members, held their SEA GAMES on Dec. 1st – 3rd . The SEA Games were monumental according to GM Sepulveda in that it had the most number of gold medals awarded in any arnis or other sports event in the history of the Philippines! CONGRATULATIONS GM Tongson & GM Sepulveda General A. Retyunskikh – GM L. Enoksen – Prof. John Theiren – GM R. Tongson – GM B. Sepulveda 4 GM Jim Arvanitis, the Father of Modern Pankration was featured in a Podcast interview on UMOR LIVE. Per an Oct. 5th post on Facebook, you can listen to the interview on YouTube at https://youtu.be/MtJAOHP_yM0 …….Wrestling/ mixed martial arts super star, Dan Severn was roasted in a comedy roast on Oct. 13th in Greenville, SC ……& members Tumuwhakarae Timoti Pahi of Rongomamau Maori Grappling & Kumu Michele Manu of Kahaiwalu Lua will be conducting 3 hour seminars for THE IMMERSION LAB’S “FIERCE FIGHTING ARTS OF THE PACIFIC RIM” training event scheduled to take place Feb. 21st – 23rd , 2020 at an undisclosed location in the San Francisco Bay Area of California to insure the participants privacy. Only 30 participants will be allowed to take part. For more information you can contact THE IMMERSION LAB at: https://www.theimmersionlabs.com/contact-us ….Master Rondy McKee GM Jim Arvanitis Dan Severn Tumuwhakarae Timoti Pahi Kumu Michele Manu was honored with BLACK BELT MAGAZINE’S 2019 Hall of Fame “WOMAN OF THE YEAR” Award while GM Kelly S.