We’ve been seeing a lot of students in our Beginner/Intermediate and Brown Belt classes, which is great! With the bigger attendance numbers, we are now asking that all students sign up ahead of time to attend class, whether in-person or online. Please try to sign up at least a day in advance so we can plan ahead and staff appropriately. We are still following current health guidelines and limited each class to 10 students. If more than 10 students attend, we divide the class into separate groups of no more than 10 students.

Also, we’ve revamped our app’s landing page to make it easier to sign up for classes. The first page you see when you open the app will now be our class schedule, and you can sign up to attend in-person and online classes from there. We’ve moved belt tests to the Shop section.

Just a few reminders with the start of the school year and cooler weather…

Now that school is back in session (sort of!) we’re back to full uniforms — that means the uniform top and pants for all students. Students can wear any shirt under their karate uniform.

In the case of inclement weather such as rain, please wait until students from the previous class have exited the studio before sending your own in. We should have everyone out 5 minutes after the end of class, and then we can allow students for the next class into the studio.

Thank you for your support.

We will be closed on Labor Day, Monday, September 7. We’ll be back on Tuesday the 8th.

We will be open for Super Saturday this Saturday, Sept. 5 at 9:15 and 10:30. Super Saturday is a great opportunity for our brown belts to take another step closer to testing for black belt.

We hope you all have a great Labor Day Weekend!

I would like to share with our members what we are planning to do for the start of the school year. We have received many requests to offer a place for virtual learning here at the studio. I have been searching for staff to help with this program. I have a couple of people who can help with some of the days, but unfortunately I have not been able to put together a schedule for a whole week. I am going to continue to search for staff and if we can put together the right team, I will let you all know asap. At this time I am planning on hosting 15 students if we can put together 3 solid staff members. If you know of someone who may be interested, please let us know.

The program would run from 7:30 am – 2:30 pm, for students grades k-6. We would offer karate classes for all students as well. Students would need to pack a snack and a lunch. The cost of the program would be $7 per day. Duration of the program is likely to be 50 days. Members would need to commit to the whole 50 days regardless of what the school district does.

Beyond virtual learning we are also looking at offering a program for the early afternoon to work as an after school time slot. We will continue to offer our evening classes along with zoom classes as these have been very well attended.

For those members who have continued to train, we can’t thank you enough for your support. If you have not been in, we understand, as this can be a very trying time for everyone.

Please let us know if you have an interest in participating in the virtual program if we get it going.

— Mr. Armstrong