Uniform prices are going up to include patches. Unless it's a sale uniform, as of April first, all black middleweight uniforms are sixty dollars, tax and patch included.

When the sale uniforms are sold, the only replacements offered, or allowed, will be black uniforms. We will allow you to upgrade to a heavier weight uniform if you want, but this will have to be ordered and will cost more. They will not be kept in stock.

This is an excellent time to replace a worn out uniform or to buy an extra one to wear until it too wears out. Our sale could put you in uniforms (white, black, spider-webbed, red and blue) for years.

Tee shirts will continue to be sold, of course, as will black baggie work out pants. These pants may be worn with uniform jackets.

We want our students to have uniforms for when they attend special functions, or when we teach certain techniques that require one. We use few techniques of this sort, but there are some that work quite well in self-defense, utilizing a jacket or a shirt.

Also, we're returning to the wearing of the jacket at the beginning and the end of class. We don't want our students to look like a bunch of ragamuffins. No starch and pomp are necessary, but ONLY OUR TEE SHIRTS should be worn, and only our martial arts jackets.

Bottom line is, after you've been a student for three months, you need to have a uniform. To go with it you may buy our tee shirts, or the baggies we offer from CENTURY MARTIAL ARTS. No excuses.

Rank has its perks, and one of them is that black belts can wear any uniform or combination of uniform they want, within reason. We don't want to see you in Bermuda shorts. If that's what you do in your own school or training facility, that's fine. But to attend our classes, our sessions, we expect uniforms, and/or our tee shirts and workout pants. Again, any combination you want, spider-webbed, white, blue, red, tee shirts or sanctioned work out pants. Instructor's privilege. We also want those who are working out in sweat pants at Lansdale's Self Defense Systems to stop. And please, no more wearing socks in the dojo. I know its cold sometimes, but you're more likely to slip and hurt yourself with these on than off. Besides, you look goofy.

What about students who have studied other systems and want to wear their old uniforms? Fine. As long as after April first it has our patch on it. When it wears out, you replace it with what we sanction.

After April first, sale uniforms will be pulled from our racks, and that's all she wrote. Considering we offer some sale uniforms at the low price of fifteen dollars, now would be the time.

CURRENTLY, we are offering a few used uniform items, pants and shirts for as low as five dollars. This would be a great time to take us up on it.

   Anything you order from here on out must be paid in advance.

We've said this before, but we've been casual about it. No more. You pay when you order. A few rotten eggs spoiled it for everybody. We've been stuck too frequently with ordered items, only to have the person who ordered them disappear. Lastly, no credit. Absolutely none. So, don't ask. It's embarrassing for everyone. You especially.

If you owe for MAVERICK MARTIAL ARTS and COMBAT HAPKIDO, Pay Up! In the past, we've allowed this to be paid out in segments, but too many folks have taken advantage of us. They let the months roll by. What this forces us to do is jack up the prices or embarrass students by having to demand payment. Let's prevent that. Pay up!