1. Welcome and Introductions of all Black Belts
2. Overview of the WHKDIA Organization
1. Senior Council
2. Executive Board
3. Curriculum Development Committee
4. Investigation, Rules & Regulations, and Membership Enrollment Committee
5. Budget, Finance, Advertising, Martial Arts Planning and R&D Committee
3. Executive Board Nominations and Voting. 
4. Volunteers for Committees.
5. Making a Constantly Evolving Curriculum
6. Developing New Schools
7. Keeping Rank Integrity
8. How is the WHKDIA run financially?
9. What else would you like to see from the WHKDIA?
10. Open Discussion
11. Volunteers for the KOA weekend

2. Overview of the WHKDIA Organization

Senior Council:

Members:

Mission Statement: 

To serve as a guiding body of elders to the WHKDIA.

Specific Duties:

• Provide guidance to the Executive Board through President of the Executive Board.
• Oversee the continuing legacy of WHKD by recording and sharing history.
• Provide insight into the continuing evolution of WHKD as a martial art.

Executive Board:

The main coordinating body of the WHKDIA.

Positions and Duties:

• President:  To serve as the director and lead manager of the WHKDIA, and be Executive Board representative to the Senior Council.  Must be a 5th degree black belt or higher in WHKD to serve, with 20 years as a black belt.
• Vice-President:  To assist the president of the WHKDIA and act in his stead when the president isn’t available.  No belt requirement.
• Treasurer: Coordinate the finances of the WHKDIA, and head up the Business Development Committee. Must be a 5th degree black belt or higher in WHKD to serve, with 20 years as a black belt.
• Secretary:  Take minutes during WHKDIA meetings, coordinate notes and paperwork of the Executive Board, and distribute mass emails to the WHKD community. No belt requirement.
• Member at Large:  Represents the larger WHKD community, and surveys them to bring issues forward to the board to address.  Assists the other board members when possible.  No belt requirement.

Current Board Members:

• President:  Sifu Mike Sandos
• Secretary: Sifu Jason Goldsmith

Curriculum Development Committee:

Members:  

Sifu Al Dacascos, Sifu Mike Sandos, Sifu Julio Hernandez, Sifu Ben Fajardo, Sifu Doug Jones, Sifu Jason Goldsmith (coordinator), Sihing Kevin Jackson.

Mission Statement: 

To develop and manage the curriculum of Wun Hop Kuen Do through the coordinated input of the whole of the WHKD community, revise such inputs, and manage the dissemination of the revisions through seminars and updated Redbook requirements.

Specific Duties:

• Receive input from the whole of the WHKD community regarding curriculum revisions.
• Use the input to formulate a yearly agenda of specific requirement areas to be developed.
• Seek input and develop a series of proposed requirement revisions to be approved by the Senior Board and Sifu Al Dacascos. 
• Publish yearly revisions to the Redbook reflecting the annual revisions.
• Identify WHKD instructors suitable to teach the annual revisions in seminar format.

Business Development Committee:

Members:  

Sifu Mike Sandos, Sifu Jason Goldsmith

Mission Statement: 

To develop the business side of the WHKDIA so that it can be financially solvent and serve as a resource and asset for developing and current WHKDIA schools, and to promote and advertise WHKD.

Specific Duties:

• Manage the finances of the WHKDIA in conjunction with the Executive Board Treasurer.
• Create resources for developing and existing WHKDIA schools.
• Advertise the art of WHKD at appropriate martial arts venues. 
• Create, package and manage investment and personal resources (ROTH IRAs, 401(k)s, health insurance, etc) that the WHKDIA can offer to WHKD instructors.

Membership, Promotions, and Discipline Committee:

Members:  

Sifu John Knutson, Shana Schwartz

Mission Statement: 

To manage the recruitment, retention, and promotion of WHKD members, and to serve as a disciplinary committee in conjunction with Executive Board and Senior Council for members who have violated WHKDIA bylaws. 

Specific Duties:

• Create programs and media to support the recruitment of new WHKD students, and support enrollment in the WHKDIA.
• Create programming to help retain WHKD students and enrollment in the WHKDIA. 
• Manage testing boards for Black Belt promotions, and oversee requests for degree promotion in conjunction with the Executive Board and the Senior Council. 
• Oversee accusations of inappropriate conduct by WHKDIA, and oversee the determination of guilt and disciplinary processes.

3. Executive Board Nominations and Voting

The nomination process for the WHKDIA Executive Board is currently open.  Nominate yourself or someone else, and we will vote July 17^th in Vegas.  If you can’t come on July 17^th, cast your absentee vote (email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with your choices).  The person with the most votes will win in each position.

President:  Sifu Mike Sandos

Vice-President:  Sifu Jason Goldsmith

Treasurer:  None

Secretary: None

Member at large:  None 

4. Committee Volunteers:

If you are interested in volunteering

5.  Making a Constantly Evolving Curriculum

Wun Hop Kuen Do prides itself on being a constantly-evolving, practical martial art.  However, in recent years, practitioners have spread out around the world, and thus while individual WHKD stylists are continuing to innovate, the requirements (as laid out in the Redbook) have not kept pace.  The Curriculum Development Committee seeks to rectify this through a continual revision process. 

Each year, an agenda will be set, based on the feedback of the entire WHKDIA committee.  The committee will then seek out experts in the areas delineated by the agenda, and a draft version of changes will be made from these experts.  This draft will undergo a series of revisions led by the committee, and then will be proposed to the Executive Board, GM Al Dacascos, and the Senior Council for approval.  These revisions will be disseminated yearly to instructors current on their WHKDIA black belt dues, and a series of seminars will be established to pass on this knowledge to instructors and schools throughout the world. 

2008-2009 Preliminary Agenda:

1. Develop 1^st Degree Black Sash requirements
2. Revise, rewrite, and expand the written knowledge requirements and tests.  Create curriculum materials for instructors to use, in conjunction with the Redbook.
3. Create/document a series of drills linked to the 25 Technical Fighting Principles, to be part of a new set of Instructor Letters.
4. Create a new Filipino Stick Fighting series of requirements (1-10)
5. Create a new Ground Fighting series of requirements (1-10)

6.    Developing New Schools

Currently, the biggest problem facing the future of Wun Hop Kuen Do is the lack of schools and clubs in North America.  There are ample black belts but very few schools, which means new black belts aren’t being produced to continue this art in future generations.  Currently, only two schools are registered on wunhopkuendo.net. 

Let us use this time to have a focused discussion about what the WHKDIA as an organization, as we as an Ohana, can do to help each other produce more active schools to ensure the continued health and growth of Wun Hop Kuen Do. 

7.    Keeping Rank Integrity

A common problem, and one that WHKD strives to avoid, is rank inflation and destruction of rank integrity.  As a chronic issue in martial arts, let us have a focused discussion on any issues relating to promotions and rank integrity as an Ohana. 

8.     How is the WHKDIA run financially?

The WHKDIA raises funds through annual student, instructor, and school dues.  It is also the sole distributor of WHKD branded products.  It uses these revenues to fund the website, subsidize black belt testing board travel fees, schedule and promote seminars, and generally promote the art around the world.

A financial report for the WHKDIA will be presented at the meeting in Las Vegas for the 07-08 fiscal year, and will be followed by an open discussion of the organization’s financial operations. 

9.    What else would you like to see from the WHKDIA?

The WHKDIA exists to serve the WHKD community.  What would you like to see out of the organization?