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Team Ward brings home the medals.

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:54:33 +0000

Team Ward brings home medals at the Colorado Springs Traditional Invitational Karate tournament.

Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs was well represented at the 2010 Colorado Springs Traditional Invitational Karate tournament. Our competitors were Ben Jordan, Garrett Cichello, and Keri Myers. Ours students competed in Kata and Kumite (sparring).

There was great competition and this was one of he best run tournaments around. There were 114 competition registered for competition from three states.

That a big division

Congratulation the Garrett for winning Silver in the Kata competition, And congratulations to Keri for receiving Bronze in Kumite.

I heard that Keri was up against some really difficult competitors in Kunite. That is a really great way to get experience when you fight better more experienced fighters.

Garrett and Ben had their hand full in kata. They competed in a division of 14 competitors. I sure am glad I did not have to judge that division. Thanks Shaun and Bret for taking that one.

I had a great day of judging Kata and Kobudo (weapons kata) also mirroring (referring) for Kumite. Boy I was sweating as had as the fighters trying to keep up with them.

Chesk the video below if Keri performing kata Empi:

Sincerely,

Scott Ward, Sensei
Ward’s Family Karate, LLC
Providing the finest training in Karate and Martial Arts in Colorado Springs.
Web site: www.WardFamilyKarate.com
Email: scott.ward@wardsfamilykarate.com
Blog: www.wardsfamilykarate.blogspot.com

Kung Fu Friday!

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:56:18 +0000

Congratulation to all of our students that belt tested on Wednesday and Thursday. Now don’t might tonight’s class for Kung Fu Friday. In an on going effect to provide the finest instruction in Martial Arts in Colorado Springs. Colorado, Ward’s Family Karate will be presenting Kung Fu Friday tonight at 6:30.

We will explore the history of martial arts, where Kung Fu came from and how Kung Fu gave birth to Karate. I will show you the difference between Kung Fu and Karate and show you the similarities.

Did you know that many of our self defense and one-step-sparring techniques are taken directly from Kung Fu. We will work with those and help you understand how they work tonight.

Then we will jump in to Eagle Claw Kung Fu. I will teach you a part of the EC3 kata. Time to get your talons out!

So don’t miss it. Don’t be late. Be at Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs, CO tonight at 6:30 for some kick butt Kung Fu!

Stick around for sparring class at 7:15.

See you there!

Sincerely,

Awards Dinner at Ward’s Family Karate

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:13:32 +0000

On Dec. 5th we had a great awards dinner at Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs. All of our students have done well this year and we wanted to recognize them for all of there hard work. It was a cold snowy night but we had a great turn out. We opened the night with a pot luck dinner. Ow Yum, we had some good dishes. I especially like the corn casserole, and Chet’s special Chile. After dinner we handed out awards. We had a large number of academic awards for A’s B’s and improved grades. I am glad to see our students are doing so well in school and I am very pleased that the discipline learn in our Martial Arts classes in Colorado Springs is helping our students to achieve better grades. We also recognized our students for Courtesy, Respect, and good habits of Cleaning their room and making there bed. We also gave our awards fro Karate achievement. I enjoyed giving our my special Samaria award for those who have contributed to our dojo with their service. We also had some fun awards such as our Gumb award for the most flexible wrists.

If you could not attend this event I hope you will be able to next year. We also played a video of some of the recent events since we opened the new Ward’s Family Karate dojo. I have placed a shorter version of the video here for you to view.

Congratulation to all of our awards recipients and I look forward to giving our some great awards next year

Sincerely,