This month’s Kids Class animal is the leopard.   The swift leopard represents speed in our techniques.

All children who colored a leopard picture were entered in a drawing to win a wakizashi bokken (a wooden Japanese small sword).  And the winner of the drawing was… Kaven Sowell!  Congratulations Kaven and thank you to all the kids who got their creative juices flowing.

KICK DOWN 94 : “PRIDE AND GLORY” – July 16th

Matt Vigil vs Vellore Caballero for the MMA 145lb Pro Title

FIGHT TO WIN : “INVADERS” – July 23rd

Pro debut  Nathan Gates vs. Justin Houghton at 150lbs.

COMING TO TOWN!  Snake Blocker (Apache knife fighting)  and Hock Hochheim (Tactical Combatives knife / Filipino knife fighting)

July 15th, 16th & 17th.  Each day 10am to 4pm.

This three-day seminar will be a study in Apache knife fighting by Snake Blocker and tactical knife combatives by W. Hock Hochheim. Hock will conduct a special Filipino Knife session utilizing numerous materials from numerous FMA sources.

Paul Pruett is back for his third fight!
Come out and show you support for Paul and the school.

What:
MMA competition

When:
Friday June 17th

===RESULTS===

Paul Pruett (1-1 ) fought Dominick Garkow (2-0) in the third fight of the night.  Paul opened up with a head kick, Dominick ducked the kick and shot in.  Paul stuffed the shot and both fighters ended up, standing, against the cage.  Eventually they went down with Dominick on top side mount.  Paul reversed to get on top and then got Dominick’s back.  Paul punched, flattened Dominick out and then finished the fight with a rear naked choke at 2 minutes and 30 seconds in the first round.  Nice job Pauley!

All students who attend a class (MMA Basic, Get Fit or MMA Advanced) on May 5th will be given a raffle ticket.  During the MMA Advanced class additional raffle tickets will be awarded for each match a student wins.

At the end of the night we will have a drawing for a free ticket to the ‘MMA Bad Girlz’ show on Friday May 20th.  Come on in and have fun!

KENPO ‘TECHNIQUE SPARRING’ CLASS
Starting Tuesday, May 10th Mr. Dunkle will be running an ‘advanced’ contact class.

WHAT
The class will be devoted to hands-on scenarios, drills, flow and application of self defense techniques.  Safe, fun and very important to developing you reaction skills.

WHEN
Tuesdays at 5:00-6:00pm

REQUIRED
A mouth guard, cup (for men), eye goggles and the Kenpo rank of Orange Belt or above.

Over the next several months the Kids Classes will be focusing on the different animals of Kenpo.  This month it’s the graceful Crane that represents increased balance and coordination gained through their Karate training.

Crane pictures have been given out to the kids to color.  There will be an Art Contest with a drawing for a free Junior Hanging Bag!  Every entry will receive one raffle ticket.

===Results===

The winner of the Junior Hanging Bag is… Liam Rogers! (on right side)  We had a runner up drawing,  just in case the Rogers  family couldn’t accept the bag, and the runner up was… Taylor Rogers!  (on left side)  Since both brothers’  names were drawn, we took it as  a sign that this family needs that bag.  Congratulations guys and thank you to all the kids who entered their art work; we have some awesome pictures.

Rex Payne is a former Pro Mixed Martial Arts fighter and has ranking in two different Ju-Jitsu camps.

Rex will be coming to AMA show some of his great ground game.  Starting on Tuesday March 22nd Rex will be a guest instructor during every other Tuesday night Advanced MMA Class.  Don’t miss an opportunity to train with a different flavor of talent.

WHEN   Saturday March 12th 2011
WHERE   Red Lion Hotel (I-70 & Quebec)
TIME   Doors open at 6:30pm, fights start at 7:30pm

*Scott Diamond’s MMA debut
*Matt Vigil has a 140 lb. professional bout

===RESULTS===

Scott Diamond vs. Jared Critser:  Scott dropped Jared with a hook in the first round but Jared recovered.  It was back and forth after that to make a great three round fight.  Jared won by judge’s decision but Scott has nothing to be sad about, nice job Scott!

Matt Vigil vs. Lee Bowman:  Lee came out swinging.  Matt shot, missed the take down and had a scary moment on the bottom of mount.  Matt reversed the mount, got Lee’s back and finished with a rear naked choke at 1:37 in the first round.  (:))

Newly improved ‘Kids Kenpo’ curriculum!  The yellow belt (beginning) requirements have been changed to help better support the younger students.

and…

Starting the week of February 21st, additional classes for kids will be added!  Due to the huge success of the Junior program the normal Kids Class will be split into ‘Tigers’ (beginner levels) and ‘Dragons’ (for anyone with the rank of Orange Belt or above).  The Tiger Classes will be held at the same time and have the same good material as the current Kids Kenpo Classes do now.  The new Dragon class will follow the Tiger class on Mondays and Saturdays and feature advanced learning and the addition of friendly sparring.