Effective February 1, 2012

The creators of the Karate Connection Training Videos, Chuck Sullivan, Senior Grand Master 10^th Degree Black Belt, and Vic LeRoux, Grand Master 10^th Degree Black Belt, have decided to take action against the video pirates who illegally copy our material and cut these thieves off at the ankles by fighting fire with fire.

The Karate Connection Video Correspondence Training method didn’t simply create itself, Mr. Sullivan and Mr. LeRoux had over fifty years of combined training and teaching experience at the time they created the method. With the permission and support of their teacher and mentor, Ed Parker, they took two solid years to breakdown and evaluate all they had learned to develop and produce a comprehensive course of study that could be taught by video while retaining the essence and substance of the Kenpo they had learned,

Over this past twenty-plus years the method and system has proven themselves time and time again. We currently have over five hundred students that have trained, tested and been promoted to 1^st Degree Black Belt, most of which who have taken and passed tests for higher ranks up to and including 10^th Degree, Grand Master. These accomplishments have come because of one reason only, Our system and teaching methods show results and they work!

Now however, the Karate Connection has encountered a problem that we intend to deal with by every means possible. It’s the problem of PIRACY! Recently, people who have neither the talent, nor the integrity, nor the knowledge to produce such a system of learning have begun stealing our life’s work by illegally copying and reproducing our videos. They have, in fact, even copied and reproduced our DVD covers, thereby adding counterfeiting to their offences, and are selling what they have illegally copied as a used product to try to make the sale look legitimate.

It’s a lie! These are not used DVDs, they are pirated and illegally copied, and these thieves  are offering them at far less than what we charge;  which they can do because they have no investment of time or effort in the creation of the system. They are advertising them on various websites such as Amazon and Ebay, and in some cases, even designed internet store-fronts to lure in unsuspecting individuals. These people typically operate by advertising “used” sets of DVDs and when they sell a set, they state that the DVDs are no longer available, but they never take the advertisement down, and then in a few days they magically come up with another “used” set to sell. They have consistently repeated this pattern of behavior. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

   THE KARATE CONNECTION SOLUTION

1.    1.  From February 1^st 2012, all DVD’s associated with the Karate Connection Home Study Course will be assigned individual Serial Numbers. When those DVDs are purchased, either individually or as part of a set, the name and address of the purchaser will be entered into a comprehensive database at Karate Connection Headquarters tying those serial numbers to that individual.

2.    2.  If, in the future, the purchaser wishes to sell his or her DVD to another individual all they need to do is inform us by email of the sale along with the ne purchaser’s name and address and we will transfer the associated serial number over to the new owner.

3.   3. We know that there are some people who have purchased illegally copied Karate Connection DVDs from one of these thieves in the past, not knowing they were pirated. We understand, and in all fairness we have decided to offer the following exception for a limited time. Individuals who have unknowingly purchased pirated Karate Connection DVDs and who desire to participate in the Karate Connection Correspondence Video Training program, will be allowed to do so at the regular per-test price. This offer is only good for six months from February 1, 2012.

4.    4.  After August 1, 2012 all new participants in the Video Training Program will be assessed an additional $60.00 fee per test unless they can supply Karate Connection Headquarters with a valid DVD serial number that is present and assigned in our database.

We are committed to pursuing any and all additional methods of protecting our Intellectual Property and intend to see these thieves prosecuted and taken down for what they are doing to us and to the rest of the Martial Arts Community. We are not the only Martial Artists who have suffered a loss because of this crime and if you know anything about us at all, you know that we're fighters, on and off the mats. If it comes to a legal fight, that's where you'll find us. One arena is as good as the next to us.

CHUCK SULLIVAN             VIC LEROUX
10th Dan, Kenpo                   10th Dan, Kenpo

Co-Founders
THE KARATE CONNECTION

 FIGHTING FIRE
WITH FIRE

Because these thieves have cut the price of our video training system to where we can’t compete with them we have decided to cut our prices so as to cut them out of the loop. Whereas they have no personal investment in our system, we have. We put our hearts and souls into the creation and the teaching of it and would rather cut our own prices and continue to be able to serve those who have no way other than distance learning to avail themselves of our services.    Therefore, The Karate Connection is going to cut the price of our Video Training System by OVER FIFTY PERCENT in order to cut the throats of the LOW LIFE THIEVES who would ruin this for everyone. You can now purchase the Karate Connection Home Study System from Beginner to Black Belt for

$125.00

ONE MORE NOTE:

If you have ever thought of learning Kenpo or getting involved with the Karate Connection and the IKCA, NOW IS THE TIME because when we have destroyed this rat’s nest of parasites we will be returning to our regular price structure of $275 for the complete set of DVD’s.

The regular cost of our system on video, plus the cost of the individual testing and private lessons returned to each student, is still the most economical pricing available in the Martial Arts today.

We’ll be seeing you on video!