Dear Ed

Great site.

It's nice to see a group welcoming clubs to their events with no restrictions. We have supported the AMA for over 20 years, I'm now being told, I will be breaking the 21.9 rule if I attend their championships by the SKGB.

The AMA run excellant competitions, I will be attending their events, it's time, club instructors stood up to the SKGB and also the EKF in England.

If everybody went to what ever competition they wanted too, do you think they would really sanction or suspend their members? get real my wee people they would have no members, they would dismantle themselves. Gets some B***s and stand up for yourselves. We should be able to attend what we want.

I know of some people who are members of the SKGB and the EKF who still train and compete outside of the SKGB and the EKF !!   There are all sorts of members ducking and diving under the `Infamouse 21.9 rule` so to speak.

Many can be found on web sites and in the magazine's, it's not hard. A blind eye seems to have been turned to many, on the face of things it appears the EKF and now the SKGB ( shame on them) have had a witch hunt on the AMA.

I've looked at the AMA web site, 'wow' never realised they had been around for 38 years. Also if you do some digging you will find that many of the SKGB and EKF groups where member's of the AMA once.

The SKGB and EKF must really fear the AMA, to want to discredited them so much.

I would think, now that  the AMA in England are now direct members of the 'World Union of Karate-Do Federation' the EKF now have another problem. Whats going to happen if lots of groups join  the AMA for World recognition? food for thought?.

On closer inspection of the BKF, it appears that the English board are controlling the BKF? be warned remember 'Wallace'

Yours truly

Mr R. Geekie

Dundee