The Martial Arts Association of Carleton

Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057
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    The Martial Arts Association of Carleton (MAAC) seeks to fulfill two main purposes:

    1) To provide a forum for martial artists of different styles to collaborate and share their experiences.
    2) To help smaller martial arts unable to create their own clubs train, teach, and establish themselves at Carleton.

The MAAC has recently reemerged as an active club at Carleton with Reid Gilman, 2009 as president.  We are currently seeking officers - including a treasurer.  Two major projects we hope to accomplish during winter term, 2006, are the establishment of inter-art workouts and the beginning of Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan lessons, offered by Reid Gilman.  Interested students should email him as soon as possible.  Beyond these immediate goals, the MAAC hopes to expand and to fully meet the goals stated above.

Not only experienced martial artists and those wishing to learn a new martial art are welcome in the MAAC. Students looking to explore the martial arts from an philosophical standpoint are also welcome. We also encourage people interested in training in a martial art at Carleton but who are unsure of which style they should practice to join. In general, anybody interested in the martial arts, from the novice to the experienced practitioner, is welcome.

    In order to meet these goals, the MAAC holds regular meetings.  These meetings range from inter-art training to giving time to instructors of smaller arts to teach their style.  The MAAC welcomes practitioners of all styles, ranks, and ages.  There is no rank or experience requirement to be a member of the MAAC, however some activities may have a rank or experience requirement or require permission from an instructor.  
   
    The MAAC welcomes students of arts of all types.  From the novice to the experienced practitioner, all are welcome.  While training with practitioners of various styles can be extraordinarily helpful in broadening one's horizons, the MAAC certainly does not discourage, and heavily encourages, continued and dedicated training in a martial art.  

    The martial arts are not all about punching, kicking, throwing, and striking.  With the hopes of encouraging students of all martial arts and interested non-practitioners to think deeply about the martial art they practice (or in which they are interested), the MAAC asks members to consider the philosophy of the martial arts.  From budo to contemporary philosophy, the martial arts do not exist in a void.