Announcements for this week:

• TKD stripe testing news

• Little Ninja and Tigers Make Up Stripe Lessons

• TKD, Little Ninja and Tigers Belt testing news

• Sign Up for In-Person classes

• Leadership Team meeting next Thursday at 7:30 pm

• Sparring team and sparring classes

• Random Acts of Kindness

• Words of the Week #2 - Moderation

• Little Ninjas and Tigers – Green and Yellow stripes this week

• Hapkido - Awareness training

TKD Stripe Testing News

Stripe testing will be Wed. (10/28), Thurs. (10/29) and Sat. (10/31) during regular class times. Students can earn 1 stripe per month to line up with our rotating curriculum format which introduces 1 new kick and self-defense each month.

Little Ninja and Tigers Make Up Stripe Days

For Little Ninja and Tiger students make up stripe lessons will be held Mon. (10/26), Tues. (10/27), Wed. (10/28), and Thurs. (10/29).

TKD, Little Ninja and Tigers Belt Testing News

The next belt tests will be on the following date:

• Little Ninja's and Tigers – Friday, October 30 from 6 pm to 6:30 pm

  • For students that earn all 8 stripes (orange, yellow, brown, green, black, white, blue, red) no later than Thursday 10/29

• TKD - Friday, October 30 from 7 pm to 8 pm

  • For TKD white belts that earn their 2^nd stripe no later than Thursday 10/29

  • For TKD orange belts and above that earn their 4^th stripe no later than Thursday 10/29

If your or your child may be eligible to belt test you will get a separate e-mail with the test details soon.

Sign Up for In-Person Classes

To maintain compliance with the COVID capacity limits, students must be signed up for the in-person classes that they attend. If more students show up than what our COVID capacity limits allow, students that are not on the in-person sign up sheet will not be able to attend in-person classes that day. The link to the in-person and zoom group lesson sign up sheet is provided below.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904084aaaa72aa2f94-october1

Leadership Team Meeting Next Thursday (10/22) at 7:30 pm

We will have the second October leadership team meeting will be Thursday 10/22 at 7:30 pm. Here is the agenda:

• Sneak peak at new techniques for November

• Curriculum review

• Leadership training

Sparring Classes and Sparring Team

Since youth football, youth soccer and youth basketball have some contact and the state has allowed these activities to resume, we have resumed sparring at Premier Karate.

We have a sparring class Saturdays from 10:40 am to 11:10 am that is open to all TKD yellow belts and above (you don't have to be on the sparring team) that have their own sparring gear.

Sparring Team is for those that want to compete at tournaments in sparring and members get to wear the gray Team DC uniform.

If you have any questions please e-mail them to me at PremierKarateMN@gmail.com.

Random Acts of Kindness Journals

Students are required to do and record random acts of kindness in their journals. White belts need to do 50 random acts before they are allowed to belt test. For all color belts 100 random acts of kindness is required. You can pick up a new journal at the front desk.

Words of the Week – Moderation

In October we will be discussing Moderation in class. Here is discussion point number 2.

“It is not practice that makes you perfect, it's perfect practice” - Vince Lambardi

It is not how many practice repetitions you do, it how you do each practice repetition. So apply moderation in the amount of repetitions you do in practice, but triple your focus, intensity, intent and energy behind each of your repetitions. That is how to apply moderation to your training.

Little Ninjas and Tigers

We worked on Green (Control) and Yellow (Balance) stripes this week in class. This is the 2^nd month of the cycle so students are getting their second chance to earn these stripes.

Hapkido

We are discussing awareness training in some of the classes this month.