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Hi, We created a video of the professional photo shoot we did a few weeks ago here at Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs, CO. I am not sure if they put in all of the shots that you saw in your proof sheets but the video looks great. I know the proof sheets were kind of small. If you have not ordered your pictures yet this will help you get a better look at them. Even if you have order your pictures you make see another one that you really want. Feel free to put in another order. I have some pull with the photographer.
So enjoy the video and let us now how you liked it by leaving a comment.
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
I wanted to take this opportunity to clarify how our stripe system works here at Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs. Specifically I wanted to talk about our Green Stripe the review stripe. We use a four stripe system. the first three stripes cover the skills that students need to test for their next belt. The green stripe signifies that the student is ready to test. Therefore you can not test without a green stripe.
I set aside one week of class for reviewing students for green stripe. Each student will need to come in twice in order to earn their green stripe. So do a Monday and a Wednesday or a Tuesday and a Thursday and you should be OK.
Now lets discuss what is expected on the review week. You should be thinking of the review week as your test. You would not go into your school on a test day, sit down to take the test and start asking the instructor basic questions about the material in the test. Well review week is not a time to be asking questions (not if you intend on testing the next week). You are there to show me how much you know! I will be watching you and all of the rest of the class to determine who is ready to test.
Don’t ever be afraid to as a question. Yes that may mean you are not ready to test. But you will have proven that to yourself if you are needing to ask how to do some technique just a week before the test. I don’t mind if you are asking for a correction or refinement on a technique. What I don’t want to hear is someone asking “What are my five self defenses?” or “I don’t remember what number two is”. That just shows me that you have not been practicing enough and you really need to spend another cycle learning the material.
If you know your are not testing please ask all the questions you want. This is a review for you to. however, for you it is a review to help you learn the material. Even if you know it by the end of the class, it is probably not a good idea for you to go into the belt test. If you want to come in the very next night and show me the same techiques, well then I might accept it, if you do a good job.
I will be more lenient with our beginner students. That is white belt through orange belt. By the time you reach the advanced class I want you to know your new material well and remember all of your previous material. This may sound like I am being very hard on my students, but I am doing for your own good.
Class changes when you reach brown belt. You will only have one belt cycle to learn what I am teaching. Then with the new belt cycle I will introduce new material and will not teach the previous material until it comes around again in about 9 months. At brown belt I will expect you to show me all of your lower belt techniques at any or all of your belt test. So as I said, I am being hard on you for your own good. I don’t want you having to play catch up at this rank. It’s just better to learn it all now.
So don’t be upset with me if I deny you your green stripe. Karate has always been about earn rewards not about being given things that you do not deserve.
When you come in with your green stripe on your belt to take your test you should not be hesitating or looking confused about what to do. You should be giving all of us a great show of your ability.
I look forwards to seeing you in your next test, and I look forward to seeing you in your future black belt test.
Work hard in class. Practice often at home. Be proud of what you have accomplished.
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
Our eXtreme Fitness / Self Defense program at Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs CO is under way and looking great. I had a change recently to stick around and watch Sensei Tony Duenas’ class for a few nights. All as Ican say is this eXtreme class is fantastic. Tony likes to work his students hard, and he does with a great Kettle weight program to build their strength, and calisthenics to build their endurance. Then the fun starts. Tony teaches a uniques style of street self defense. DO NOT come this class without a cup on! Tony believes strongly in attacks to the groin. Whether it’s a hand strike or a knee strike Tony will show you how its done and then there will be plenty of practice. Tony showed his studetns stand up techniques, take downs, how fight on the ground from the top and from the bottom. Remember all of this was just from a coupled of classes I watched. The great thing was to watch how much fun everyone was having in the class.
If you really want to get in shape and learn effective self defense this a great coarse to take. We start our students our will free week of classes and their first month for only $69. If any of my adult (14 up) Karate students want to take this program along side of your traditional karate training you can do so for any additional $55 a month.
If you would like to get hold of Sensei Duenas you can call him at 719-243-3787. He would love to talk to about eXtreme F/SD or call me Sensei Ward at 719-659-2106.
We also have Traditional Karate and Cardio-Fit Kickboxing to help get you in shape this holiday season.
Now check out this great video of “eXetreme Fitness / Self Defense“.
Sincerely,
Scott Ward, Sensei
Ward’s Family Karate, LLC
Providing the finest training in Karate and Martial Arts in Colorado Springs.
eXtreme Fitness / Self Defense
Colorado Springs martial arts: http://www.wardsfamilykarate.com/colorado-springs-martial-arts/
Web site: www.WardFamilyKarate.com
Email: scott.ward@wardsfamilykarate.com
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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,
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
Since we have had some bad weather and this is cutting into our review I have decide to move the test date back. So the Belt test at Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs will be held on Wednesday the 16th and Thursday the 17th.
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
Due to the snowy weather Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs, Colorado will be Closed tonight (tuesday 12/08/09). We will not have Cardio-Fit Kickboxing or Karate Classes.
I you are part of eXtreme Fitness / Self Defense then please contact Tony Duenas at 243-3787. Tony is willing to hold class if the students want to attend. What can I say, these guys are eXtreme.
I hope to see you all in class on Wednesday. However keep check on this page for any new developments. With the current blast of weather who knows what tomorrow will be like.
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
Hi karate students and Parent of Ward’s Family Karate.
I wanted to remind you that we have our Awards dinner at the Dojo at 6:00 This Saturday night. Please bring a main dish and either a side dish or a dessert. (I am getting hungry all ready). Also bring you own chair. With all the Family coming the seating on our lounge will go fast. Don’t forget to bring your camera you will want to get pictures of your kids will those big smiles as they receive there award.
I can’t wait to see everyone.
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
Just as a reminder Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs will hold a seminar for the Brown Belt kata of the month Empi on Sunday (Nov. 22nd) at 3:00. This Seminar is to help the Brown Belt learn their kata for this belt cycle since they only get one belt cycle for each kata. All brown belts are encouraged to attend. Due to Thanks giving we will loose a day or two of class to practice. This Seminar is open to any students of the rank of Orange Belt or higher. The Cost is $20 for the first famliy member and $15 for the second. Please sign up at the front window so that I will have an idea of how many students are attending.
If you would like to see a super charged performance of Empi check out this video of Lucas Valdesi:
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
You may have noticed that we have a new web site! Let me know how you like it. I know it does not have all the pages that we had in the old site but this site will be much better for getting the word out about Ward’s Family Karate. If you would like to get to the old site, it is still available. It’s just a little more typing to get there. So stick this URL in your book marks: www.WardsFamilyKarate.com/index-old.html
Enjoy both sites for now, but the old site will not be recieving any updates. Always check the new site for current news.
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
When I was in high school and College I did not care too much for history. But as I have gotten old I have really been fascinated with history. One of the things that I really love about Karate and Martial Arts is studying it’s history. When you get involved in karate in this way you will learn about foreign lands and cultures, historical figures and historical events. Who was at war with who. Important innovations and social relations. Maybe this is why we say a kick isn’t just a kick, and a punch isn’t just a punch. There is history behind each one of these things.
Ward's Family Karate Dojo in a Historical Building
There is some pretty neat history behind Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs CO too. Not just our lineage and the great masters of Japan and Okinawa that we come from, but the building we are located in. In resent history the previous tenant of our unit was the Brazilian Capoeira school. Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that is very dance like. I believe there was even a Champions Karate school in our space in the past. But perhaps most interesting is the original owner of the the entire building, and for that mater the entire block. Our building was build by the Alexander Film Co. one of the largest producers of commercials from 1930 through 1960. Our building was a movie studio, a film processing plant, and later on the largest Aircraft production facility in the world at the time.
All of this was highlighted in a recent article in the Colorado Springs Gazette. You can read the full article at this link: http://www.gazette.com/articles/north-65466-biggest-great.html
Enjoy
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