Wisdom

Good morning everyone, a wise person once gave me what I consider, two very important pieces of information. He said, when you pray ask for protection and if you pray just for yourself, your prayers will go nowhere. For a lifetime now I have paid attention to his words. So everyday I ask for the protection of myself, my family, friends, and students, I ask that the peacekeepers of our world keep our planet safe and for those having hard times; that they may find Solace in their faith in Jesus Christ. I am happy to pass this on to you. Good morning.



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Bullying

Are you being bothered by a bully? Try this. Stand a reasonable distance away from the bully. In this way, he will not be able to punch you first. It is very important to first really look at this person. If he or she is really a good person having a really bad day, try your best to walk away, try to reason with him or her by asking if they have ever seen a real fight. Continue to explain that in a real fight people's eyes get blacken; noses get broken and very often blood shows up. If they are still determined to fight explain that you are going to fight back. You're always better off trying to make a new friend, then acquiring a new enemy. Once the bully knows that you are willing to fight back this should change their mind about who you are and what you're capable of. I was once asked by a priest what I would do when confronted by a Goliath, of a person in my path.  My response was reasoning should always be your first choice. However, sometimes we do have to throw stones. Keep in mind, that it is everyone's responsibility to know how to protect themselves and how to protect the people in their charge. We are all given tools and the better we are equipped to use these tools the better off we will be. Here are the tools I teach at my martial arts school, West Boca Karate, in Boca Raton, Florida. 1. Reason, 2. Walk Away, 3. Control, 4. Pain, 5. Break bones 6. I Think you all know what this is. My point is this, the more prepared you are; you will only need to use the lowest of options. I hope this will help.

Online Martial Arts Competition

I would like to give you a little history on a man that saw an opportunity in 1993 to pursue a dream of having a 24/7 television network dedicated to the martial arts and its practitioners. He named this network, TMAN, “The Martial Arts Network”. In an all out effort, Master Tramontano began to take steps that created an idea and dream that has been on the lips of every martial artist for the last 18 years. The Martial Arts Network, a network for us, for martial artists. Imagine now, how great this would be. Master Tramontano quickly looked to the technology of our time, in late 1994, and along with Dr. Ron Valli, created the first ever website for Martial Arts. This website went on to support the television network project in every way. Tman.com, grew every day as it achieved over a million hits a month. In 1996, Master Tramontano along with partner, student and long time friend, Mr. Tony Interdonato, moved the television network from Boca Raton, Florida to Universal Studio in Orlando. For seven long years, Tramontano and Interdonato work trying to fit many of the pieces together that would ultimately grow a family oriented television network, dedicated to the martial arts community. Master Tramontano’s vision was a simple one; he wanted to create a television network that would reinforce family values, a place where every parent would feel comfortable having their children in front of a television knowing the right messages were being taught. In a continuing effort to give back to a community Master Tramontano loves and feels has given him so much, he now present TVMAC, The Virtual Martial Arts Competition. Ladies and Gentlemen, please help me welcoming The Virtual Martial Arts Competition.

It was bound to happen sooner or later; the first Virtual Martial Arts Competition. WOW! And who do you think would put something like this together? You guessed it! The Martial Arts Network (Tman.com) and yours truly, Master Alan Goldberg. Master Ron Tramontano and I have joined forces to bring the Martial Arts Community a truly World renowned event. Competitors from around the World will now have an opportunity to compete in a world arena for all of us to see. The first tournament to have virtually an unlimited number of categories in which to compete. In November of 1995, TMAN, as it has become known, became the first global Martial Arts presence on the web. From November of 1995 until today, Master Tramontano has worked to integrate what we love to do, into the lives of every person in every country around the world. It's time to get out the video equipment and show us what you've got. You need to jump head first into this one. It's about to get interesting.

Hi I’m Master Ron Tramontano, from The Virtual Martial Arts Competition. Until now, little has changed that has excited as many people in the martial arts as what I am about to share with you. Over the past year, I have been very impressed; as I am sure you are with the changes taking place in our industry. YouTube, the world’s leader of informational videos, hosts millions of videos dedicated to every style of Martial Arts around the world. Today, in every country, people know how and do send videos to YouTube from their phones, cameras, webcams, PC’s and tablets on a myriad of subjects, but none more than martial arts. Our company, the Virtual Martial Arts Competition, plans to take advantage of this exciting and compelling niche we call Martial Arts. Click here to see the video.

Iran Sanctions

Thank you for the kind words. My business, "West Boca Karate", established in 1986, in the Shoppes of Loggers Run, keeps me busy. With over 500 Black Belts and thousands of loyal and happy customers, (over our 26 years span) I am now able do things in our community like helping to get Alan West elected was very important to me. I would like to say, Linda, my wife, and I both enjoy listening to you each morning. I heard you and Jim speaking about Iran and would like to weigh in. Sanctions against Iran are nothing more than a tool they will use against us at a later date. They also have a tendency to hurt the people of the country and make them mad. Change can only take place in this country in two ways, as I see it. 1. Change needs to come from within. The people of Iran have to say they have had enough. Methods like social media can work, however will take longer and can be interfered with by the government of Iran. 2. More effective and I feel will be much faster, would be to get to the Iranian citizens that exist behind the scenes/shadows, the ones that have the ears and power that control the Iranian government. I would venture to say that the CIA knows exactly who these people are and where they live. More than likely, many of them live in the USA and some countries we are friendly with. Force these people to move back to their country, Iran, and uproot their entire lives. Brian, the opposite of Love is not hate, it's indifference. When you dismiss a persons existence or a countries existence, for that matter, that is effective pain. Change will come much quicker when the right people can feel the loss.

 

Thank you,

 

 

Ron

How Does The Entrepreneurial World of Seal Team 1‘s, Stack Up To The United States Navy’s, Seal Team 1

Seal Team 1, Wow! the best of the best. For many people in America and around the world this is the flash that produces the thoughts and pictures in the minds of all of us as those words are spoken, and rightly so. They are the best, at what they choose to do. A team of men and women so finely tuned that a comparison can only produce one and only one thought and that is of the finest of Swiss Time Pieces. So finely created that its workings are without question as to pre session and accrues. Seal Teams train and execute missions much like this watch. Never missing a beat. A question arises however, Seal Team member, outside of his or her team, what do they aspires to? As an individual they are successful men and women that have acquired skills. Ask yourself this question. What is the difference between Ability and Skill? Ability is what we are born with and is given to us by God. Skill is what we have acquired through training and experience. What is experience? Trial and error...mostly error, bad chooses we hopefully learn from. There has never been nor will there ever be a Seal Team member or Team born with “ability only” that can do what Seal Team 1 has accomplished. Be dropped into Pakistan and take out Osama Bin Ladin. Individual Seal Team member training, and teamwork, are only but two of a three part quest for the making of a Seal Team 1 capable unit. The third part, is experience, and that is a killer. The Seals, of Seal Team 1 have had to do a mission or missions like this before to acquire the experience to qualify for the first team. If you were a member of any of the other teams and failed, there is a good chance you’re dead. If you’re in Entrepreneurial World you’re probably broke, out of business and would like to be dead. Okay, you have passed the test and by trail and error you have been found worthy of your new position. SEAL Team 1... STOP! I forgot to tell you one more thing you have to know.

Do you remember that Swiss Time Piece we where talking about? The one that can run one hundred years without missing a beat. Why do you think it can do that? I will tell you why. Because it knows it’s a Swiss Time Piece and it has Purpose, Integrity and Honor, made by a team of people with the same values. I see it this way. While the sum of the parts are enclosed in that solid gold watch case it will do its job and never let its team members that are also enclosed in that solid gold case down. For many of us that solid gold case may be an office or a basket ball court or a football field. For a Seal Team 1 member it’s the world stage. We can never forget the reasons we do the things we do. That’s what gets us home at the end of the day. When you walk through that door and hold the people you love in your arms, does it really matter how you got there? Or just that you’re there. At night, lie that solid gold watch on your night stands, and get into bed. Slide up to your world and hold them in your arm as you smile knowing the world your world is safer and better then it was yesterday.

No Death Sentence/Life W/O Parole on circumstantial evidence

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Case in point, Casey Anthony, you do not try to give a person a death sentence, or life in prison “Without Parole” only on circumstantial evidence. Justification for this kind of sentencing can only be made with hard factual evidence. Governor, Senators and Speaker, every day we read in the newspapers someone is getting out of prison because of new DNA evidence being found, or a new DNA test has been invented. Well, where is the balance for people who have been convicted on circumstantial evidence? When no physical evidence exist in a case it becomes impossible to prove your innocence. Today, it would seem one rule covers all events that fall into a specific category...such as crimes that fall under "capital felony". It needs to be changed by people who refuse to give the rule of law to another RULE... instead of giving it to a thinking person. Legislation I would like you to consider. I would ask that legislation be crafted that would not allow a person convicted on circumstantial evidence to receive a life term without parole. Please make this retroactive for all persons now being held in Florida jails. Have all persons that fall into this category go in front of a parole board for a review. If they have served an amount of time the board feels is just, and they have not been getting in any trouble while incarcerated, what would be the harm in giving them their life back? It would also save Florida some money and relieve the overcrowding in our prisons. Ron Tramontano

Is actress Angelina Jolie a martial arts aficionado?

Is actress Angelina Jolie a martial arts aficionado? Not sure. But she sure did have something quite smart to say recently about the martial arts and how they can help normally aggressive boys. "A lot of people who study martial arts know that if you have children who have any kind of aggression one of the best things to do is certainly not to ignore it, but to actually put that child into a martial arts class so they understand their own body, to learn discipline., to learn their own strength and then to harness it," Jolie told EW. "My boys wrestle all the time," she adds. "They're two boys, but they've been in martial arts classes for a while together and now they bow to each other, they know when to hit the mat [i.e. when they want to quit], they know when to stop wrestling. They have respect. But they're boys -- without that they're going to want to wrestle, to try things and test themselves. It's a primal thing. But to keep it in an organized way where it shows respect and discipline is fantastic." Get Your Child Started ...