KARATE KIDZ ONLINE FINAL CHOICES FOR AUGUST 2003

Karate Kidz Online made their Final choices for both the KKO Teacher Spotlight and the KKO Student Spotlight for August 2003. Congratulations goes out to Master Alan Goldberg for being the teacher spotlighted for August 2003. Like the U.S. Marines, Wing Chun Kung Fu Master Alan Goldberg, a WorldBlackBelt Founding Member, is just looking for a few good students. So far Goldberg has only found about 50 Martial Artists who have shown him enough of the right stuff in terms of attitude and dedication to be invited into his extraordinary dojo in the heart of Brooklyn, New York.

New York and California August, 2003 -- Karate Kidz Online made their Final choices for both the KKO Teacher Spotlight and the KKO Student Spotlight for August 2003.

Congratulations goes out to Master Alan Goldberg for being the teacher spotlighted for August 2003. Like the U.S. Marines, Wing Chun Kung Fu Master Alan Goldberg, a WorldBlackBelt Founding Member, is just looking for a few good students. So far Goldberg has only found about 50 Martial Artists who have shown him enough of the right stuff in terms of attitude and dedication to be invited into his extraordinary dojo in the heart of Brooklyn, New York.

I am particular with who I train because my students become part of our very close family," explained Goldberg. I have had opportunities to expand, but I am really not interested in having a large school because it loses some of the tradition."

Included in Goldbergs select circle of students are notable celebrities such as actor Joe Piscopo, who co-starred with WorldBlackBelt First Founding Member Chuck Norris in Sidekicks, former heavyweight fighter Dimitrius Oaktree" Edwards, who broke Mike Tysons ribs in a sparring session just prior to the former champions first fight against Evander Holyfield, and Dr. Richard Pearl, who was recognized by Newsweek Magazine as one of the top orthopedic surgeons in the United States.

Training with Goldberg is not like attending your ordinary Martial Arts class. My students take an average of three classes per week and each class runs at least three hours," Goldberg explained. Despite these intensely rigorous workouts in this combat style, Goldbergs students remain loyal with nearly 80% of them still studying with him.
The dedication that Goldberg has instilled in his students today is derived from his own personal devotion to his Martial Art. At the age of 24, Goldberg was the first person to actually go and live inside a Shaolin Wing Chun Temple. I lived there for five years and I would have stayed longer, but I got married and my wife didnt think that would work too well," joked Goldberg. I was inspired by David Carradine and his Kung Fu television series show and I saw living in this Temple as my calling." It was quite an experience, we would train around the clock, sometimes I would get a knock on my door at 4:00 a.m. and it was time to train."

Outside of his dojo, Master Goldberg may be better known as Martial Arts Entrepreneur Goldberg, as he is the publisher of Action, one of the most widely read Martial Arts magazines in the country, creator of the very popular Action Martial Arts Trading Cards, Television and Movie Producer and the host and promoter of WorldBlackBelts First Annual International Martial Arts Conference and Hall of Fame Awards Dinner.

Goldberg can barely contain his excitement when discussing the upcoming Conference & Hall of Fame Dinner. With hardly any advertising we drew over 1,000 people to our trade show this past year," said Goldberg. Next year with WorldBlackBelt we are going all out by holding the event in a 27,000 square foot convention center, offering 24 seminars and more than 100 vendors booths."

WorldBlackBelt and Goldberg are joining forces to make this Conference the best event ever and believe that it will go a long ways to making their shared vision of a unified Marital Arts a reality. He is our choice for August 2003.

Congratulations goes out to Brittany Gaska for being the student spotlighted for August 2003. Brittany Gaska has been studying martial arts since the age of five years old. Within the first two months of training she was competing in the FLMA in forms and sparring. The very next year she was competing in FAME. Brittany has been a top champion competitors in FLMA and FAME from 1995 until the present. She captured three consecutive triple crowns in the FLMA fro 1997 to 1999 in sparring, self defense and traditional forms. She became a true Florida state champion in 2002 afer competing in the FBBA, FLMA and FAME, the Trilateral circuit.

Brittany has trained under Master Dr Wilfredo Matias and Grandmaster Remy Presas in modern arnis aling with cross training in Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido. She received permission to train under Master John Gabriel to become a part of the Tai Chi Chuan Tao system. She was also a part of Team Pepsi in the year 2000.

Beyond martial arts Brittany is an honor roll student and loves to compete in basketball, baseball and football. She is our choice for August 2003.

We are proud to have the opportunity to feature such good role models for the youth of martial arts, Master Alan Goldberg and Brittany Gaska are just that, role models. They have exhibited the dedication and devotion to the martial arts that inspire others," Stated Louis Velazquez, President of Karate Kidz Online.

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