{"id":2875,"date":"2020-05-20T22:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T02:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2020-05-20T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T02:49:09","slug":"a-small-problem-ouma-is-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/?p=2875","title":{"rendered":"A Small Problem &#8211; OUMA is a Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">We have a small problem.<\/p>\n<p>All the martial arts instructors and their students want to return to<br \/>training ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>As the Province of Ontario begins to lift certain restrictions, we are<br \/>faced with two issues\u00a0 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Sports training and practice is stated to only be allowed to be<br \/>conducted by an official Provincial Sport Organization. The Ontario<br \/>government is not considering the majority of martial arts practitioners<br \/>who are not part of the Provincial Sport Organization.<\/p>\n<div>2.\u00a0 All martial arts practices are being considered as high-contact. The<br \/>government is not considering non-contact practice such as Kata, Forms, or<br \/>individual practice lead by an instructor that can satisfy social<br \/>distancing.<br \/>We need to come together to voice our concerns as one family and we need<br \/>to do this quickly.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly the reason why the Ontario Union of Martial Artists was<br \/>created.<\/p>\n<p>I joined OUMA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ontario-uma.ca\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ontario-uma.ca<\/a>\u00a0because I wanted to maintain my<br \/>martial arts independence while at the same time maintaining my loyalty to<br \/>where it belongs \u2013 my martial arts and my martial arts lineages that have<br \/>given me so much.<\/p>\n<p>I appeal to you to join OUMA in order to maintain your right to run your<br \/>classes and to train as you deem fit.<\/p>\n<p>There is no cost involved. Your independence as a martial artist remains<br \/>absolute.<\/p>\n<p>The more martial artists joining OUMA, the greater our voice as martial<br \/>artists. And the stronger our ability to maintain independence.<\/p>\n<p>OUMA is a community of independent martial artists of all ranks, of<br \/>independent associations that are just that \u2013 independent, and of people<br \/>who support the integrity of each martial artist\u2019s personal journey.<\/p>\n<p>Please come join us. As I mentioned, there is no money involved and you<br \/>remain completely independent.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a small problem. All the martial arts instructors and their students want to return totraining ASAP. As the Province of Ontario begins to lift certain restrictions, we arefaced with two issues\u00a0 \u2013 1.\u00a0 Sports training and practice is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/?p=2875\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.snowtigermartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}