Recently, Martial

Arts America - East/West Karate Studios, presented black belts to 27 students.

Mark Dumas,

owner and chief instructor of the schools in Fayetteville and Peachtree

City, noted that although the students passed their final four-hour tests

May 19, they were also required to pass three physically exhausting preliminary

tests three months prior to the final.

The preliminaries

and final black belt test covered areas of endurance, forms, techniques,

power kicking, combination drills, self defense, one-steps and sparring.

Each student passed unanimously, judged by a panel of black belt instructors.

"It would

have been very easy for any normal person to give up and throw in the

towel," said Dumas, noting that the students' mental make-up played

an important role in the process. "That option never entered in the

minds of these students. In the four years and more leading up to this

goal, they have all learned confidence, determination, discipline and

perseverance."

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