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The following information pertains to the "Modern Arnis Symposium Testing Board" and is as follows:
1. To test and if the applicant is successful, promote persons currently holding the minimum rank of Lakan/ Dayang in Modern Arnis. This testing opportunity is limited to those people who have not received a promotion for 3 years or more due to death, disability, retirement or relocation of the testing applicants instructor. The effective date for the last promotion is can be no later than January 1, 2000. Those people meeting the above criteria are the primary focus of the Modern Arnis Symposium Testing Board.
2. The second group of people who may apply to be tested by the Modern Arnis Symposium Testing Board are those persons who are recommended by their current instructor. The purpose for those testing would be to have an impartial, objective evaluation of a student holding the minimum rank of Lakan/ Dayang in Modern Arnis. The candidate put forward by an instructor must not have been tested since January 1, 2003.
3. Unless approved by the individual's instructor, in writing and on school letterhead, no person who is currently a member in good standing of any Modern Arnis organization will be eligible for testing. The following organization's members ARE NOT eligible for testing and possible promotion, American Modern Arnis Associates, World Modern Arnis Alliance, International Modern Arnis Federation, MARPPIO, World Modern Arnis Coalition and the International Modern Arnis Federation, Inc.. Other organizations may be added to the above list at the discretion of the Modern Arnis Symposium Testing Board.
4. If a person has resigned from an organization, they must provide proof that they have been separated from that organization for 3 years or more and they must provide 2 letters of recommendation before "the testing door will be opened" for them.
5. Applications for testing can be made on-line by writing to me at the following e-mail address:
escrima_kenpo@hotmail.com
The application must be filed with me as the Symposium Director by July 9, 2003. No applications will accepted after the July 9, deadline. The testing fee will be $50. The applicant for testing should explain why he/she can not be tested by the person who signed their last rank certificate.
The applicant must supply a information regarding their current rank plus the location and date of their last promotion within the e-mail. The applicant must bring a hard copy of their rank certificate with signatures and dates included to the testing site at the Symposium. The applicant must a written statement at the time of testing which clearly acknowledges that they *Are Not* a member of any current Modern Arnis Organization. The exception will be for people who have their instructors written permission to test.
Jerome Barber, Ed.D.
1. To test and if the applicant is successful, promote persons currently holding the minimum rank of Lakan/ Dayang in Modern Arnis. This testing opportunity is limited to those people who have not received a promotion for 3 years or more due to death, disability, retirement or relocation of the testing applicants instructor. The effective date for the last promotion is can be no later than January 1, 2000. Those people meeting the above criteria are the primary focus of the Modern Arnis Symposium Testing Board.
2. The second group of people who may apply to be tested by the Modern Arnis Symposium Testing Board are those persons who are recommended by their current instructor. The purpose for those testing would be to have an impartial, objective evaluation of a student holding the minimum rank of Lakan/ Dayang in Modern Arnis. The candidate put forward by an instructor must not have been tested since January 1, 2003.
3. Unless approved by the individual's instructor, in writing and on school letterhead, no person who is currently a member in good standing of any Modern Arnis organization will be eligible for testing. The following organization's members ARE NOT eligible for testing and possible promotion, American Modern Arnis Associates, World Modern Arnis Alliance, International Modern Arnis Federation, MARPPIO, World Modern Arnis Coalition and the International Modern Arnis Federation, Inc.. Other organizations may be added to the above list at the discretion of the Modern Arnis Symposium Testing Board.
4. If a person has resigned from an organization, they must provide proof that they have been separated from that organization for 3 years or more and they must provide 2 letters of recommendation before "the testing door will be opened" for them.
5. Applications for testing can be made on-line by writing to me at the following e-mail address:
escrima_kenpo@hotmail.com
The application must be filed with me as the Symposium Director by July 9, 2003. No applications will accepted after the July 9, deadline. The testing fee will be $50. The applicant for testing should explain why he/she can not be tested by the person who signed their last rank certificate.
The applicant must supply a information regarding their current rank plus the location and date of their last promotion within the e-mail. The applicant must bring a hard copy of their rank certificate with signatures and dates included to the testing site at the Symposium. The applicant must a written statement at the time of testing which clearly acknowledges that they *Are Not* a member of any current Modern Arnis Organization. The exception will be for people who have their instructors written permission to test.
Jerome Barber, Ed.D.
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nobody will go for a test so we woun´t have the problem. 
