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Martial
Arts practitioners, from Karate to Kung Fu, Tae Kwon
Do and Kickboxing, National All Styles (NAS) has the
tournament circuit for you. With regular tournaments
Australia-wide, State, National and International Championships,
the NAS has the professional structure to suit you.
NAS has forms, point fighting, continuous sparring,
team sparring, demonstrations and weaponry in an exciting
range of categories for all ages and experience levels.
Reports from all NAS tournaments
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Australasia’s
premier martial arts magazine, Blitz, with photos, reports
and ratings for competitors from each event. The success
formula that the NAS has been built on is a truly non-biased,
non-political organisation that you can be proud to
be involved with. Over 10,000 competitors annually and
hundreds of Officials and Instructors are already taking
advantage of all the benefits. National All Styles tournaments
offer a great way to test months or years of hard training,
or can simply be an event for the whole family to enjoy.
NAS has something for you… right now!
Call NOW or email your State Director for more information
on how to participate as a competitor or official.
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2009 National All Styles Championship
 The 28th Annual National All Styles Australian Championships was an action-packed weekend at Melbourne's Sports and Aquatic Centre with over 600 competitors battling tooth-and-nail to become an Australian title-holder. In some of the most heated and skilful matches we’ve seen to date, the day was a roaring success with the champions putting it all on the line. Stay tuned for a full wrap-up and all the details in Blitz magazine. |
 Champion of Champions
In an unbelievable display of technique and staying power, Samantha Palmer dominated the Women’s Division yet again to earn her an equal record of three straight NAS belts. Also returning to the winners podium after a short hiatus, Luke Croxford took home the Men’s belt in what was one of the most intense and exciting finale’s in NAS history. Read all about it in the upcoming Blitz special. |
Karate Kid thwarts kidnapper
 A 13-year-old Sydney karateka has caused a media frenzy after fending off a would-be kidnapper in September.
Chris Pikis was returning home on a bus from All Saints Catholic Boys College in Liverpool when a man in his 50s or 60s aggressively tried to get him off the bus. Pikis countered with skills he’d learned in his eight years of karate training.
“He grabbed my right shoulder so I’ve gone into a stance and used [an] open-hand block to push him away,” Pikis told The Daily Telegraph, which was just one of several media outlets to cover the boy’s story.
Pikis, from Prestons in Sydney’s southwest, is a student of Go-Kan-Ryu karate and also studies Okinawan kobudo at Tactical Defence Studio in Sadleir. He is now planning on being a stranger-danger teacher for fellow teens. Since thwarting the attempted abduction, the All Saints Catholic Boys College student has put his energies into developing a program with his school to teach other children basic self-defence techniques and awareness.
“[It] has completely changed me and the way I think,” Pikis told the paper. “It makes me want to help other people avoid what happened to me.”
Pikis, who trains up to six days a week and will head to Okinawa for training in 2010, said he understood not everyone wanted to learn karate but hoped he would be able to give others the confidence to “say no to a stranger”.
“If they do not know karate, they should be confident and scream for help and do anything they can to get away.”
Police were still investigating the incident.
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 Ronnie Burns honoured as Tasmanian Australian of the Year
Premier David Bartlett presented the prestigious Tasmanian Senior Australian of the Year Award to legend Ronnie Burns for his work creating the NAS-sponsored charity Appin Hall Children’s Foundation Respite Centre, which provides refuge for terminally ill, disadvantaged, abused and destitute children and their carers.
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Blitz Martial Arts Magzine
A monthly publication, it features
interviews and articles on the world's best martial
artists, unique styles, personalities, self defence
strategies & much much more.
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International Kickboxer
International Kickboxer has followed
the growth of the sport and is dedicated to bringing
the reader the latest news.
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Australasia Taekwondo
Taekwondo is the most actively
practice martial art in Australia. Readers will
benefit from the exclusive interviews, tournament
reports, injury advice and much more.
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Kara-te
Special Collector's Edition
Blitz magazine's
Kara-te Special Collector's Edition covers every
aspect of the art of karate, from history and
philosophy to etiquette, terminology and practice.
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Price: $9.95 incl. P/H
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Instructors Fighting Techniques
Blitz Collector's Edition of
Instructors Fighting Techniques is a tribute to
some of the best of the best Martial Arts Instructors
that Australasia has to offer
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Price: $9.95
incl. P/H
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Story and photos about the huge weekend of martial arts action at the WASO Championships. 
BIO-NUTRICS Sports Supplements joins NAS as major sponsor. 
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