Just a reminder that, due to Missoula Children’s Theatre rehearsals, there are no karate classes today.

That doesn’t mean that you can’t do any karate today! You can still practice your kata and the techniques that you know. Home practice is encouraged to help karateka progress faster and master the skills they are being taught.

We’ll see you all next week!

Here is a snapshot, sent to us by Earl Flynn, of the load we dropped off at Sarcan in Redvers this afternoon.

Great work, everyone!!

… for a bottle drive!!

A super “big boy kiai” goes out to everyone who helped out with the bottle drive tonight! What a great turnout!

An extra special thank you to those of you who were sorting this evening! That’s not always the most pleasant job but everyone dug in and worked hard!

We completely filled a 20 foot enclosed trailer tonight!

Here are some photos and a short video.

 

Great work this week, everyone! It was great to see everyone working hard and having fun at the same time. 

Please remember to show up and help out at the BOTTLE DRIVE on Friday afternoon. Please meet at the dojo doors and be ready to head out by 4:00 pm!

NO KARATE NEXT WEEK! 

The school is hosting the Missoula Children’s Theatre next week and they’ll be rehearsing in the gym. We will resume regular class on Tuesday, October 28.

During tonight’s classes we’ll be taking orders for gi, mouth guards, and hand pads. The sizing gis have arrived so this will help to select your correct size.

We’re also asking people who ordered jackets to bring payment to tonight’s class as well. If we get the order in this week, we may actually receive the jackets before our tournament!

If anyone has completed a CERTIFICATE sample to consider for our tournament, please bring those to class as well tonight. You can also email them to:

moosemountainkarate@gmail.com

The BOTTLE DRIVE  is being held next Friday and Saturday so be sure to clear your schedules to come out and help!

See you at the dojo!

Those of you who purchased the new ID tags are asked to bring them to the class tomorrow night. The barcodes are ready to be applied.

Regular classes tomorrow!

See you at the dojo!

Sensei Kevin would like to thank Sempai Hannah and Riley Flynn for attending a workout in Weyburn with him on Wednesday evening.

As members of a karate club, we are ALL representatives of karate, our local dojo, and our national federation! As such, we must be sure to practice in public what we practice in the dojo when it comes to respect, rules, and discipline. The old masters all looked at karate as a part of life, not just a sport they practiced. Regardless of your views on karate, it is a noble pursuit to present ourselves as respectful, law-abiding, well-disciplined citizens.

See you at the dojo!

We have rescheduled the dates of our bottle drive! We will be collecting bottles on:

Friday, October 17 at 4pm

Saturday, October 18 at 10 am

Please meet at the dojo to get set up and go!

TOURNAMENT and CLINIC is being held on November 21/22. We’ll discuss this a lot in class.

The tournaments are great places to meet new friends and extend your “Karate Family”! You will likely run into the same people year after year as you attend other tournaments and progress through the ranks together. Naturally, since it’s a tournament, you get to measure your skills against those at a similar rank. The clinics are a great place to learn new techniques and work with different instructors. Both are critical to the success of developing karateka (karate students).

 

A reminder to everyone that we’ll be holding a bottle drive this coming Friday and Saturday. We’ll meet at the dojo on Friday, September 26 at 4:00 pm and again on Saturday, September 27 at 10:00 am. Details will be discussed at Tuesday’s class.

Everyone did so well at the first class of the year! Let’s see everyone out working up a sweat again this week!

See you at the dojo!

Wow! What a great first day of karate classes we had on Tuesday!!

We had 35 children come out for the Just for Kicks class and 55 for the Jr/Adult class!! Awesome! And we know that there were some people unable to make it last week, so next week should be even better!!

The Senseis were most impressed with the high level of discipline shown by everyone. The classes, despite the large numbers, were easy to lead, and everyone worked really hard. Great work, everyone!!

We hope to see everyone out again next week.

See you at the dojo!