Pushing into September
Hello everyone,
Just wanted to post a little information on what and where the dojo will be heading as we move into September. I’m really excited about all the stuff that we’ve got planned. Having been open for almost 8 months now, I’m so happy to see a solid core group of members that are advancing nicely into their intermediate stage of training. Having said that, hopefully in October or November we will be adding Ocala Karate & Fitness’s first Intermediate level class to our schedule. The class will most likely be held on Tuesday and Thursday, so all my intermediate students “Orange Belt and Green Belt” will be able to train up to four nights per week. Times will be announced as we get closer to Launch. Pretty awesome guys and gals. This is just one more reason Ocala Karate & Fitness is Marion County’s Premiere Martial Arts Studio. We’re going to be setting a pace with our programs that no other facility will be able to match.
I’m happy to announce that Ocala Karate and Fitness has officially submitted its first group of Tesshinkan applicants to Tamayose Sensei while I was in Okinawa the last few weeks. All were accepted, so I would like to officially introduce our school’s first group:
Kyle Wilkinson, Roger Fatt, Daniel Lynn, Kyle Peterson, Scotty Peterson, Gary Crawford, and Cody Liss.
Congratulations and welcome to the Tesshinkan! ! Tamayose Sensei was very happy with the new members joining and is looking forward to training with them when he comes through the U.S. next year. As of now it looks like he will either be coming in April of 2010 or August of 2010. Those of you that are ready will be able to test for your Brown belt in Ryukyu Kobudo directly from him. Those of you that have been training and have recieved your yellow belt, Tekko are available for purchase. These are all custom made and hand crafted just for the Tesshinkan. Nunchaku will be the next step after Tekko, so start saving up now as these would make excellent Christmas gifts.
One final announcement to be made is that we will be sparring more in class this month so if you don’t have your sparring gear yet, get with Jaime or myself so we can get your Warrior sparring gear ordered for you. The whole set is on sale right now so be sure to take advantage of it. Right now you save about $30 dollars off the entire set so hurry up and get it ordered !
Once again I’d like to thank everyone for their hard work and training at the dojo and I’m happy to be back home. Three weeks is a long time to be away. We appreciate everyone’s support and we look forward to the coming months ahead ! !
Gambatte