HOW TO BUILD YOUR LEPRECHAUN TRAP
BELOW ARE THE DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO BUILD YOUR VERY OWN LEPRECHAUN TRAP! Be sure to check out our Photo Gallery from 2009’s Leprechaun hunting season.
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Spring tournament and Shiai THIS SATURDAY! Deadline to sign up is Wednesday, March 10th. No registrations at the door.
Character Development Center
Wow! January 2010 is here! The following is from Dr Robyn’s POWerful Words lesson we will be teaching this month. Don’t forget to visit our Character Development Center in the Members Only section of our Online Dojo to print your Karate Homework.
It’s the New Year! And this year, instead of starting off thinking of just ourselves, let’s also think of others. Let’s set goals that take into account how other people feel too. What is one of your goals that can help other people too? We’ll know how other people feel by looking at their: (1) Facial expressions; (2) Body Language; (3) The situation; and (4) What the person says. Then we need to put ourselves in their position–as we sometimes say, “take a walk in someone else’s shoes” and imagine how we would feel in the same situation. When we can understand how someone is feeling and even “feel” how they feel by “taking a walk in their shoes,” we can respond in a helpful way– this is all part of showing empathy.
NJMAA Character Development Center link: http://www.newjerseymartialartsacademy.com/MembersOnly/CDS/cdcEMPATHY.html
XMA & Demo Team News
XMA will be leading a performance at Karate Kamp 2010. Practice on the new routine will begin 3/16. Come check it out!
Junior Black Belt Blog (JBBB)
Attention Junior Black Belts – We will be having a guest instructor on Wednesday, January 27 for our Black Belt class. Please be at the dojo by 7:15pm. Thank you. Shihan


