Dear Students, Teachers and Parents,

The new school year is upon us and we are working hard to get all the
clubs and High School programs going this week. We have also just
been awarded the contract to teach the karate program at Pikes Peak
Community College. This program doesn't pay very well, but it
does
allow us to award scholarship hours (up to 80 hours per semester) for
students that may need assistance with their first 2 years of
college. We will be having team try-outs and awarding scholarships
September 4th so please contact me, or your Sensei right away if you
are interested.

Our new schedule for the main school goes in effect next week. If you
attend classes at the main school and have not picked up a new
schedule please do so.
The new hours for our classes are:
On Monday and Wednesday –
4:30-5:15 Kids Kempo Karate
5:15 – 6:00 Beginner and Novice Kempo Karate (white belts through
Purple belts – we will split into groups and use upstairs and
downstairs)
Special new class for 7 and under (they get to wear cool dragon
uniforms too) 5:45-6:15-Little Dragons ( Mary Britton and Jennifer
Gandolf will be teaching this program.
6:00-6:30 will be black belts only kata training with us
concentrating on Monday for 1st degrees and Wednesdays working on 2nd
degrees and above.
Brown and Black class has moved 15 minutes earlier running from 6:30-
7:15.
At 7:15 – 8:00 we will be having another Beginner and Novice
class.
On Tuesday and Thursdays we will be still teaching 4:00-4:45 Kids all
rank and 4:45 – 5:30 a Beginning and Novice Family class.
Saturdays we will be hosting our Chinese class (Tai Chi and other
soft forms) by Shihan Hack and a Family all ranks class from 8:45-
9:30. The Chinese class is open to family members of students as well
as students.

We have also given a home to Master Chase who teaches Tae Kwon Do and
recently closed his school down over on the west side. He will be
teaching from 7:15 – 9:00 on Mondays and Wednesdays so please
show
courteously and make his students feel welcome at our dojo. We also
have Kurt Frankenburg teaching eclectic martial arts program on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, at the same time as Kyoshi Ader.

Next belt test will be held in the morning of September 7th. 9:00 am
for Little Dragons, 9:15 for White belts, 9:30 for Yellow and Orange
belts, and 10 am for Green through Purple belts. There will be a
brown belt workout and pretest for those wishing to test for black in
the next year or so from 2:00 – 4:00 that afternoon.

Sensei Scott will be having a weapons seminar (the bo) around noon on
the 21st of September.

Hope everyone is geared up for a great year!

Respectfully,
Terry Bryan, Kyoshi