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- WMAW. The oldest gathering annual gathering of students, the Western Martial Arts Workshop was born out of nothing more than three far-flung friends wanting to meet face-to-face. Pete Kautz of Alliance Martial Arts, Col Dwight McLemore of The School of Two Swords and Greg Mele of the Chicago Swordplay Guild had "met" on-line and had begun a fruitful email and phone correspondence. At Pete's suggestion, they each began exchanging videotape of our training sessions as a way to share drills and techniques and to critique each other’s work. They expanded this idea to include other Western martial artists, and see if they were interested in attending. By the time the event occurred, the "little get together" had mushroomed into eight instructors and over forty total attendees, Dave Cvet of AEMMA’s last minute decision to attend even making it an "international" event. Since then, each WMAW has tried to further develop and expand the original concept. In only its second year, the workshop trebled its attendance, and when the rotation began again with the 2002 Workshop attendance had grown to 150 people.