ERIC BECK

Welcome Fellow Travelers!

After much arm twisting some of my colleagues have convinced me to go ahead and join the information age.

So apparently, in these things,  it’s now appropriate to tell you some of what my journey has and does include.  Here goes:

Summary:

• Husband of 1 Amazing Wife
• 4th Degree Father (4 Amazing Boys)
• 2nd Degree Black Belt Hakua-Kai Traditional Japanese Karate-Do
• 27 time Karate Championship Medalist
• 3 Time World Champion DCI Brass
• Performed & Toured w/ World Renowned Canadian Brass
• Founded Total Integration Program for Business Owners
• Principle Consultant, Beck Consulting
• Education Innovator – The Galileo Project
• SPC, US Army, Infantry Air Assault (ret.)
• Techno-Utopianist
• Rugged Individualist

Music Performances Include:

• Trumpet – Classical and Jazz
  • Lincoln Center, Avery Fischer Hall, New York City
  • Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
  • Tanglewood, Boston Symphony Summer Home
  • Ravinia, Washington, DC Symphony Hall
  • Houston, Rice University
  • Bloomington, Indiana University
  • Nashville, Vanderbilt University
  • Denver, CO – Mile High Stadium
  • Buffalo, NY – Rich Stadium
  • Jackson, MI – Veteran’s Memorial Stadium

Conductors Performed Under:

• Eiji Oue – Minneapolis Symphony (protege of Leonard Bernstein)
• Kenneth Schermerhorn – Nashville Symphony
• Dr. Ray Crammer – Indiana University
• Dr. Jeff Kirk – Belmont University (Jazz)

Military:

• 29th Infantry Brigade, 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry, Charlie Company (AASLT)
• The AASLT in the unit title, stands for Air Assault. The 1-184 infantry’s wartime mission is to serve as air assault infantry. As an enhanced readiness unit, the 1-184 infantry conducts very strenuous and fast paced training and must be ready to deploy within 90 days of a federal call-up. In fact, the 1-184 infantry is currently the top ranked Air Assault battalion of the 32 air assault battalions.

Ft. Knox - Great Friends Forged in Fire

Karate-Do Instructors:

• Sensei D. Peacocke – 4th Degree Black Belt
• Shihan B. Edwards – 7th Degree Black Belt
• Shihan K. Iwabuchi – 8th Degree Black Belt

Self Defense Instructor:

• Bill Kipp – FAST Defense (Black Belt Magazine rated #1)

Karate Tournaments Include:

• Cupertino, CA
• Los Angeles, CA
• Las Vegas, NV
• Colorado Springs, CO
• Yuba City, CA
• Oakland, CA
• Santa Rosa, CA
• San Francisco, CA
• Foster City, CA

On the long path...

Just another beginning...

Weapons Training (Martial Arts and Military)

• M-16 A4 Assault Rifle
• M-9 Pistol
• M-203 Assault Rifle – Grenade Launcher
• M-247 SAW – Heavy Assault Rifle
• AT-4 – Anti-Tank Rocket
• NRA Pistol Certification
• Okinawan Kobudo – Shihan Fumio Demura
  • Tonfa
  • Bo
  • Sai
  • Nunchaku (made famous by Bruce Lee)
  • Equbo
  • Koma
  

  Last Thing the Bad Guys See!

Professional History:

• Curriculum Design
  • Intl. Business School
  • The Galileo Project – 1 year non-site-bound, international 9th grade
  • Syllogistic and Propositional Logic
  • Music Theory
  • Public Policy
• K-12 History, Math, Logic, Music Instructor
• Brass Caption Head – Crossmen Drum Corp
• Brass Instructor – Brass Theater
• Director of Training, E-Myth Worldwide

• Director, New Cambridge Institute
• Director, Galileo Project (Sonoma Country Day)

• Owner, Solomon Audio
• Principle Consultant, Beck Consulting
• Founder, Total Integration™ Program

• Designer, MasterPlan™ Software

Keynotes & Conferences Include:

• Atlanta, GA
• Barbados
• Ft Myers, FL
• Rohnert Park, CA
• Charlotte, NC
• Charleston, SC
• Dallas, TX
• Houston, TX
• Louisville, KY
• Centerville, OH
• Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• Bristol Bay, Alaska
• Seattle, WA
• Pittsburgh, PA

Welcome and take a look around…

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