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The Martial Arts Today Show
The only show of its kind in the United States

The Martial Arts Today show has spearheaded the growth of the martial arts not only in the subject area of martial arts styles, but in the areas of women's self-defense, child abduction prevention and the true insight into the background of some of the actual pioneers of the martial arts as we recognize it in the world today.

This T.V. show has been recognized as the only one of its kind in the United States and has received support from many world recognized martial artists. The American Martial Arts Institute played an important role in the success and philosophical direction of the T.V. show by the fact that stagehands and some of the camera crew are American Martial Arts Institute belts, but most of all because the host of the show, Clifford C. Crandall Jr., who is also the producer of the show, is a Black Belt and the Master Instructor of the American Martial Arts Institute school and the style known as the American Eagle Style. Through the success of this show and the efforts of Master Crandall, the positive spirit and effective style of the American Martial Arts Institute has been presented to over 9 million homes from the East to the West Coast of the United States and Canada.

The Martial Arts Today show began its airing with WKTV-2, an NBC affiliate in Central New York State. From there it slowly spread to other stations and networks throughout the United States and Canada. As the show's popularity grows so too grows the publicity. In a newspaper interview Clifford Crandall was quoted as saying, "It is truly a pleasure to bring the general public some accurate coverage of what the martial arts really is and at the same time personally a pleasure to be able to exchange my martial arts heritage with so many outstanding world leaders in the Arts."

Some of the guests who appeared with Clifford Crandall on the Martial Arts Today show were:
Tadashi Yamashita Fumio Demura Bill Wallace Raymond P. Arndt Patrick Tamburini Hidy Ochiai Mark Dacascos Pan Zhiwei Frank Dux Tsuneyoshi Matsuno Ernie Reyes Sr. Sheldon Lettich Charles Mok Hung Fai Herman Pastor Jr. Manuel Agrella Ernie Reyes Jr. Bud Malmstrom Joe Lewis Ron Van Clief Dennis Brown Paco Prieto He Ying Jeff Smith Jean Frenette Larry Hartsell K.K. Kong Castro Perez Charles Wang