Welcome to the Official Site of Hakan Manav, where you will find the latest news, events and videos of his work.

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Hey Everyone,

I hope everyone had a great month of May. Heres what ive been up to.

Since the start of the year i have been training pretty hard. Ive had some ups and downs in my training with injury but am grateful that i can still do it and push myself all the time.  Below is a recent video that shows some of the stuff ive been working on!

A couple of months ago, we shot an episode on Taekwondo on Saturday Disney .  The link to the TV clip is below. It was great fun.

I was contacted by the people at Halfbrick (the company which make Fruit Ninja) to come along and be ninjas at their Media Function which was held Kobe Jones at Darling Harbour. I personally am addicted to the game and to perform at their function was great fun. It was also the finals for their national championships (i didn’t even know they one). Furthermore, it was great to bump into YMS of whom which we performed for on Last Seasons X-Factor. Check out some Pics.

I am very excited that in a few weeks i will be heading over to the USA. I will be away for 4 weeks travelling all over the country. I will be attending the Martial Arts Industry Supershow. From there i will be heading to New York for a Tricking gathering known as Drednt. Then i will head to Florida for the US Open World Martial Arts Championships to compete and support some of the students i have had the pleasure to teach. This will be followed by a week long training camp in San Jose known as Loopkicks. The trip will finish with a week in LA for some more training. Its going to be awesome. Cant wait to see everyone, meet new people and train with everyone again 🙂

I am also very excited that i will be releasing my own training label very soon. It is titled ‘RESPECT’ clothing apparel. At this stage, it will only consist of One Singlet, One T-Shirt and One Jumper. It has been great fun designing the concept. Hopefully within the next Couple of weeks it will be launched. Below is a little snippet of what some of the apparel will consist of.

Haks

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Hey guys,

I sit here looking back at how quick this year has gone by. We get so caught up in our day to day lives that sometimes we forget that years are made up of days, which are made of hours, of which are made of seconds. So with time ticking away, it is important we make the most of this thing called life.

Here’s a look at back at some of the things I’ve been up to over last month or so.

Last year we were fortunate enough to appear on Channel 7’s Sunrise program. This is a very popular program within the morning timeslot and was a great opportunity for the team to appear on the show. We had a blast. The video is finally up on YouTube.

A few weeks ago i was approached by the Kacevski Brothers. Local directors who I’ve previously worked with on a short film titled ‘Dying Ice’. They got their hands on the latest camera on the market right now and the only one in Australia. It is the Sony F65…I should also mention that it is worth over 150k. Myself and two other talented individuals were the first to be shot on this camera. Here’s the outcome of the shoot. The short film is titled ‘III’ It was a sunrise shoot so call time was 5am. Nonetheless. It was an awesome experience.

I also competed in the International Sports Karate (ISKA) NSW Open in the Extreme Musical Forms Category. I came away with the first place. I am grateful for the support i got during my preparations for this event. Here is the video.

My Extreme Martial Arts Seminars and Private Lessons have been going very well lately. I ran an XMA Seminar at the Martial Arts Proffesionals Master Mind Weekend. It was a great networking event with a range of Intructors and Martial Artists from all over Australia.

Also on the topic of Seminars, I travelled to Brisbane for a Seminar at Red Dragon Martial Arts and one here in Sydney at Martial Arts Spirit. Both of which i had a great time at. It was awesome to see how much the students had improved since my last visit to those schools. I look forward to going back.

For more Information, check out the Seminars Link on this Page.

With Regads to the X-Treme Karate Kidz, we recently did performances at Event Cinemas for the new Bruce Lee film ‘I am Bruce Lee” Performances were fun but the movie is even better 🙂

I know there are alot of videos, but a recent video that has been uploaded on the australianmartialart youtube account was a behind the scenes rehearsal performances for Channel 7’s X- Factor.

And Finally over the past weekend i was invited to Present at the ENERGIZE: Project your Passion event along with some other influential Speakers. I had an awesome day presenting on The Importance of Goal Setting, and learning from the other Presenters.

Sorry for all the videos, i hope you enjoy them. I look forward to the next few months with lots of great things coming up. Including a performances at a Media Function for one of my favourite iPhone games…Fruit Ninja 🙂

Until Next Time!

Haks