"the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
-Hans Hoffman-
SADE KNOWS "MAMBO"
MAMBO ARTS TODAY is the culmination of over 45 years of experimentation in a wide variety of intellectual and physical activities. Through continual educational advancement, physical culture mastery, optimal mind / body integration study, and award winning achievement in all of those endeavors, the editor of this site has finally developed a system of progressive personal evolution that integrates many disparate areas of human communication and physical activity. I have chosen to name this unique new approach to personal evolvement MAMBO ARTS TODAY. It is about much, much more than mere mambo latin dancing. For example, most visitors will note right away that I have included several pages devoted to our "United States Military Services" on this site. I like to call those pages "military mambo".I have developed those military focused pages because I consider myself to be a contemporary "Urban American Patriot" due to the fact that my late father instilled in me a unwavering respect for our armed forces ( and by extension this great country, the flag, the Constitution, and the original laws of the land ) that still burns brightly in my heart today. I am obligated to support our troops around the world who so selflessly protect our nation, it's citizens, it's mores, it's traditions, and it's values. These are troubling times for our great nation and our military services...WE MUST SUPPORT OUR COUNTRY AND OUR COUNTRY'S DEFENDERS. That is basically why I have developed a couple of military mambo pages for your viewing enjoyment. Also, There is subject matter on those "military mambo" pages that can help our troops worldwide realize that they have our civilian support 24 / 7. That said, there is a certain "Mambo Arts Effect" that you can learn from all of the pages on this site that can be applied to many disparate aspects of your life. The astute and perceptive will understand what I mean by this.
If you are a martial artist, a fitness enthusiast, a dancer, a musician, a salsa dancer, a student of philosophy, or just a concerned citizen and Contemporary American Patriot who is not fooled by the current left wing socialist group of political hacks who want to turn America into a banana republic ruled by a uber liberal political aristocracy headed by Barack Hussein Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, et al, MAMBO ARTS TODAY will reveal to you a variety of unique, practical, and productive ways to take your personal life interests unto a wider range of transformational possibilities. Simply apply a few (or all) of this site's insights, strategies, concepts, points of view, and methodologies to your daily life path for just a few short months and watch "unusual" changes in the ways that you think, act, and "evolve". By carefully researching and experimenting with some (or all) of the many "Points of Mambo Arts Today Diversity" as I have herein outlined, you will find keys that can open doors of physical, mental, and spiritual perception that you never dreamed existed. And you can do it all with a mambo beat.
If you are an American parent who works hard every day to create a better future for your family, your community, your locality, and this (once) great nation of ours by passing on tried and true American "values" and the traditional American way of life ( have you taken your children out fishing or to the park to play catch lately? ), you will like the fact that this site is deeply interested in and dedicated to the preservation and passing on of traditional conservative American values to the generations of the future. The survival of traditional conservative American values is what will allow us to defeat the evil-doers of the world as well as the similarly evil people who seek to destroy our nation and its liberties from within. There will never be a red flag with a hammer and sickle on it flying over this nation if Mambo Arts Today can help it. Truth, Justice, and the American Way is this website's touchstone.
The whole process is simple, efficient, and extremely practical. Just study and adapt the info you find on this site to your goals, experiment with focused effort, and your eventual success is guaranteed. That is the path of MAMBO ARTS TODAY.
Play with the many facets of MAMBO ARTS TODAY, and watch your whole world change in a variety of subtle ways over time. Our various "portal links" will lead you step by step to the "answers that you seek to reach the goals that you set" in every area of your life. Plus, you are going to have quite a bit of fun to balance out the hard work in the process.
Think of your visits to Mambo Arts Today as dancing with your human potentials in mind, body, spirit, and patriotic planes.
Herb April-Publisher 11/07/06
Note: I have been asked many times ( too many times in fact ) what Mambo Dancing has to do with martial arts, self-defense, patriotism, intellectual edification, politics, and all the other subjects you will find on this website. Here is a semi-cryptic answer for the interested - "The information you encounter on this website may one day prove to be an invaluable asset on your personal dance floor called life."
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SPECIAL NOTE FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO LEARN HOW THE BASICS OF AFRO-CUBAN AND AFRICAN CONGA DRUMMING AT HOME:
I HAVE RECEIVED MANY EMAILS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ART OF HAND DRUMMING AND PERCUSSION TECHNIQUES IN THE PRIVACY OF THEIR HOME AT THEIR LEISURE. TO THAT END I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND ONE WEBSITE IN PARTICULAR THAT I BELIEVE WILL GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY'S WORTH IN INSTRUCTION AS WELL AS A VIRTUAL TREASURE TROVE OF PERCUSSION SKILL TRAINING SECOND TO NONE. THAT SITE CAN BE ACCESSED BY CLICKING ON THE LINK BELOW. IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU LET THE SITE OWNERS KNOW THAT YOU HEARD ABOUT THEM ON "HERB APRIL'S MAMBO ARTS TODAY WEBSITE." WE DON'T MAKE ANY MONEY OFF OF THIS RECOMMENDATION / REFERRAL. WE JUST THINK IT IS A REPUTABLE SITE THAT IS RUN BY MASTER DRUMMERS WHO ARE TRULY INTERESTED IN TEACHING YOU HOW TO BECOME A SKILLED CONGA DRUM OR DJEMBE DRUM PLAYER. SUPPLEMENT WHAT THEY OFFER WITH A GOOD DOSE OF LIVE INSTRUCTION AND PERCUSSION WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION IN YOUR AREA, AND YOU WILL HAVE LEARNED A VALUABLE ART THAT WILL SERVE YOU WELL IN MORE AREAS THAN YOU MIGHT THINK.
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