Registration Next Week!

One more week until Registration Night!

Registration will be held on Tuesday, September 9 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the Carlyle Elementary School gym.

Here’s the Registration Form if you want to speed up your process.

2014-15 Registration Form

Regular classes begin on Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Just for Kicks (age 5, 6, 7) at 6:30 and the Junior/Adult class from 7:30 to 9:00 pm. Students should be “ready to begin” at the appointed time.

Registration Night and First Day!

The registration night for this year will be on Tuesday, September 9 from 6:30 – 7:30 pm at our regular dojo in the Carlyle Elementary School gym.

Classes will begin the following Tuesday, September 16. Just for Kicks (age 5, 6, 7) from 6:30 – 7:30 pm, and the regular class for ages 8 and up from 7:30 – 9:00 pm.

Here are some important dates to put on your fridges:

Saskatchewan Provincial Wado Kai Karate Tournament and Clinic – Carlyle, SK – November 21 and 22, 2014.

National Shintani Memorial Wado Kai Tournament – Simcoe, ON – May 23 and 24, 2015. 

We will be discussing these events in our first class.

See you at the dojo!!

The 10 Precepts of Anko Itosu

The following post was borrowed from the web site of Sensei Iain Abernethy.

Check out the entire post on our Words of Wisdom page.

Anko Itosu (1832-1915) was one of karate’s true innovators; he was the creator of the Pinan kata and was responsible for introducing karate onto the Okinawan school system. To make karate suitable for children, Itosu watered down the karate he taught to them. As part of this, he started teaching kata without their applications so that the children could gain the physical benefits of kata training without irresponsibly giving them knowledge of the violent and brutal methods the kata were created to record…

New Words of Wisdom

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus; and you must not stay there. You must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee

Check out our “Words of Wisdom” page for more interesting Martial Arts quotes.