New Lil’ Dragon Instructor:

We’ve added a new Adult Instructor to the Lil’ Dragon program, Karleen Thibault. Karleen has had years of experience teaching young students and special needs. She has already brought a lot more structure and discipline to the classes creating a much better learning environment.

Student of the Month:

We had several students who did very well in testing and at the Sundre tournament. We’ve decided to award 2 students with the Student of the Month awards. Ilya Kostenko and Lawrence Tang both skipped a belt, and as a result they were both awarded the honor. Their picture will be on the front window of the Martial Arts room at the club.

Halloween Party:

We had a pack house for our Halloween Party with almost 50 children in attendance. Every child walked away with a huge bag of candy and we gave away over 16 prizes for the best costumes! Best Overall Girl was Jordan Nolan and Best Overall Boy was Dustin Wright. Thank you to all the Parents that volunteered to make the event a success. Our next Special Event will be a Movie and Pizza night on December 17^th from 5-8:30pm, 8:30-9pm is the pick-up time. We will send out all the information on November 10^th and then we will start accepting registrations on November 21^st.

Women’s Self-Defense Seminar:

This seminar is Free and available to all female students 12 years of age and up. The seminar focuses a providing girls and women basic and strong self-defense techniques. Here’s the date and time: November 30^th 8-10pm. You need to register with M.T. by November 25^th.

Next Testing Dates:

Remember you need to register and pay for testing 2 days in advance, and we have limited amount of space per test day. Our next Black Belt Test will be December 17^th. Here are the upcoming test dates:

November 16^th 8-9 pm, November 17^th 7-8pm. December 2^nd 5-7pm, December 3^rd 1-4pm, December 20^th 6-8pm, December 21^st 6-8pm.

Tournaments:

We did excellent at our first tournament! At Sundre, our 9 competitors in a total of 11 divisions, won 4 Gold, 4 Silver, and 3 Bronze. In 2 of the event we place 1^st and 2^nd so we took home 6 of the highest medals we could. We also we had 5 students who competed at their 1^st tournament. The next Tournaments are in Edmonton on November 5^thand in Whitecourt on November 19^th.

Bullying:

In 3^rd week of November (starting on November 14^th) we will teach the children more anti-bullying self-defense and talk to them on more ways to avoid being the target of bullying. We will

School Closures and Class Changes:

We will be closed on Remembrance Day, November 11^th.

There will be no Raptor classes on the Tournament days.

There will be no 8pm All-Open class on November 30^th in lieu of the Women’s Self-defense Seminar.