Spring Break
Grad student to be inducted into World Martial Arts Hall of Fame
Greg Elias
Issue date: 4/3/02 Section: Campus
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In addition to his work at New Wave Self Defense, Pinot also teaches classes for students for free at URI. They meet in the Multicultural Center Forum from 7 to 9:30 p.m. on Mondays and in the gym at the same time on Wednesdays.
"It's an extremely hard working group. We've been here since 1996, and we were recognized in 1997. It's kind of a shame that people don't take advantage of it. I run a martial arts school and people pay literally $1,000 a year to learn and I offer it here for free and nobody knows about it."
Pinot's New Wave Self Defense is also sponsoring the Martial Arts Fest, which will come to URI in September. Included in the tentative plan for guests and speakers is Master Sayed Najem, an Olympic Silver Medallist who owns a school in Cranston, and Steven Lopez, a Gold Medalist in Tae Kwon Doe from the USA. There will also be various demonstrations and competitions from national sports karate teams.
"It's our way of educating people about martial arts and getting away some of the negative connotations, you know, 'martial arts is about fighting, martial arts is about this, martial arts is about that,'" Pinot said. "We'll show them what martial arts is really all about."
"It's an extremely hard working group. We've been here since 1996, and we were recognized in 1997. It's kind of a shame that people don't take advantage of it. I run a martial arts school and people pay literally $1,000 a year to learn and I offer it here for free and nobody knows about it."
Pinot's New Wave Self Defense is also sponsoring the Martial Arts Fest, which will come to URI in September. Included in the tentative plan for guests and speakers is Master Sayed Najem, an Olympic Silver Medallist who owns a school in Cranston, and Steven Lopez, a Gold Medalist in Tae Kwon Doe from the USA. There will also be various demonstrations and competitions from national sports karate teams.
"It's our way of educating people about martial arts and getting away some of the negative connotations, you know, 'martial arts is about fighting, martial arts is about this, martial arts is about that,'" Pinot said. "We'll show them what martial arts is really all about."
