Our tournament is only a couple of weeks away! We’ll be finalizing arrangements and going through tournament etiquette at the next few classes to prepare. 

Please be prepared to help out with the tournament. We will be needing volunteers to help with the canteen, prize table, and registration table as well as people willing to be timers and score keepers. We will be explaining all of these roles in the coming classes.

EVERYONE should be entering our tournament. The tournaments really are great places to meet new friends and extend your own “karate family”! Winning is not the focus. The focus is to try your hardest and achieve a personal best. Sensei Shintani, himself, said, “You are not finished when you lose; you are finished when you quit.” Come to the clinic on Friday, November 21 and the tournament on Saturday, November 22! You’ll be glad you did.

We’re back to our regularly scheduled classes this week.

Our tournament is a little over a month away so we’ll be finalizing arrangements in the classes ahead. Just a reminder to our new, and returning, karateka that this is the Provincial Wado Kai tournament and volunteers are needed to help everything run smoothly.

We strongly encourage ALL of our members to participate in this tournament and other Shintani tournaments; even our very youngest members! Jump in right away. Don’t “… wait for next year.” The Shintani tournaments and clinics are all great events to meet new people who share a common interest. In fact, it’s kind of an unwritten Shintani law that you must make a new friend at every event you attend. The tournaments are wonderfully supportive and full of people who have been, or are currently in, the same stage of karate development as you. We all know the struggles of trying to learn a tricky kata (or completely blowing your kata in a tournament) or technique which makes us all uniquely qualified to support each other as we progress through the ranks.

Give the tournament a try; especially the Friday night clinic. You’ll be glad you did!

See you at the dojo.

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).