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  The SwiftKick Break-a-Thon, held on August 25th at the studio, was a huge success!  We had a great turn out and a lot of fun!  The event was organized to support Chelsea’s Light Foundation, a foundation created to inspire community awareness and positive change in our community for the protection of our children.  Much …

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Last weekend Brian Cowell attended a weekend of training put on by Crazy Monkey Defense.                                                                             We had the opportunity of asking Brian a few questions about the weekend. This is what he shared: Brian: The weekend was a closed session just for trainers. It was up in Los Angeles at Center Line Gym, Jerry Wetzel’s gym—the head CM trainer in the US. Q: What did you guys do? B: Mostly sparring. Anything goes sparring sessions. There were guys there from all over the country: New York, Tennessee, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, etc. and a lot of trainers from California.  We worked extensively on technical skills in CM 1, 2, and 3. Q: How long did it last? B: It started Friday and went through Monday. We sparred about 8 hours a day. Q:  What were you hoping to get out of the weekend as you were headed to it? B: I was hoping to get training and experiences to improve my personal game, which by default will improve my coaching. I went for personal benefit and for the benefit of my clients. Q:  Was there anything you were surprised with? B:  I didn’t expect to have such a noticeable improvement in my sparring game. Others …

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Congratulations Karate Kid of the Month: Mikayla Mayou!! (clap, clap, clap, whistle, clap) Mikayla has grown tremendously in her training at SwiftKick Martial Arts, starting off in our young Explorer\’s class years ago and now flourishing as a blue belt in our PathFinder Program. What impresses me most about Mikayla is her willingness to learn, …

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Joe Isom was one of our first Champion Members. Not only is Joe a great client, he has also become a great friend and has shown amazing support to Swiftkick since he began the program. Joe is very committed to his training and rarely misses class. He approaches his training with intelligence and diligence which …

Champion of the month- Joe Isom Read More »

We have a fun announcement: in 2012, Swiftkick is going to highlight a student in our program once a month as \”Karate Kid\”.  (I know, I know, we don\’t do karate but it sounds cool!) We will choose a child/teenager that we feel has exhibited exemplary behavior in our program and also an adult as …

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With Belt Testing around the corner on June 15th and June 16th for our PathFinder Students (kids 7-12), some of you may ask how students receive their next rank. Each student must have a total of SIX STRIPES on his or her belt to be ready to test for rank. Rank testing requires a minimum …

PathFinder Program (ages 7-12): How will I know I\’m ready to test for my next belt? Read More »

Recently we completed a training module in our Impact Class which consists of both adults and teens. The purpose of the module was to improve the fundamental understanding of the functional sparring game. I was so impressed with some of our students I thought I\’d highlight their achievements on our website. Two of our most improved Impact …

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