Receive lots of Tickets to our Referral Draw by bringing a buddy to the Campbelltown Martial Arts Kids Night and Buddy Week!!!

Take a break from the Kids and drop them off at Campbelltown Martial Arts this Saturday at 6:00pm. The night will include games, motivational videos, board breaks and pizza. You can also bring a buddy and receive tickets to the Campbelltown Martial Arts referral draw, with over $800.00 worth of prizes to win. The draw will take place in December at our presentation night. You must be present to win. The kid’s night is for kids 5 and over. See the CMA notice board for further details. Please enter you kids names on the kids power event sheet on the notice board if you want them to attend. We need at least 25 kids for this event to go ahead. So parents take a break from the kids next Saturday night. They are in safe hands and we will have lots of fun with them!!!

Buddy Week at Campbelltown Martial Arts!!!

Following the CMA Kids Power Event we will be having a Buddy Week at CMA for all our kids classes. Each child that brings a buddy to try a class at Campbelltown Martial Arts, will receive ten tickets to our referral draw and a certificate for their participation in the event. We have plenty of fun skill drills and martial arts to keep all the kids entertained for the week. Buddy Week will be from Monday 4th June to Friday 8th June. All you need to do is a bring a buddy to class to train with you.

Campbelltown Martial Arts Referral Draw

The CMA referral draw has started and we are slowly starting to fill the barrel up with tickets belonging to CMA members. All you have to do is refer a friend to try a class at CMA and you will receive a ticket. If they join you will receive 5 tickets and are guaranteed a prize with spin of our referral wheel. There are 3 prizes in total, to the value of $800.00. Make sure you receive a ticket if you refer someone to Campbelltown Martial Arts. Visit http://www.hapkidobjj.com/ for more information on Campbelltown Martial Arts!!!

Campbelltown Martial Arts Kids Power Event

MMA Superstar Brian Ebersole to visit Campbelltown Martial Arts

As promised Brian Ebersole is set to visit Campbelltown Martial Arts on Wednesday 15^th August at 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Make sure you mark this day free in your calender. It’s open to all students training in our adults Hapkido, BJJ or MMA classes. Brian’s specialty is wrestling and its very hard to get access to a great wrestling coach in Australia, let alone Campbelltown, so we are excited to have him spare us a few hours of his time. I have done a few training sessions with Brian and he is very giving of his time and an enthusiastic teacher. He is very technical and you will certainly come away with some great concepts and techniques to add to your MMA game.

Bio of Brian Ebersole, who is visiting Campbelltown Martial Arts later in the year!!!!

Other amazing seminars scheduled for Campbelltown Martial Arts

Don’t forget later in the year we have BJJ extraordinaire John Will visiting Campbelltown Martial Arts on Saturday October 20 at 1:00pm. We also have undefeated world champion kickboxer Benny The Jet visiting Campbelltown Martial Arts on Monday November 12 at 7:30pm. Lets also not forget black belt Richard Sargent teaching BJJ at Campbelltown Martial Arts now on the first Friday of each month. He will also be covering some MMA classes in early July. Visit http://www.hapkidobjj.com/index.cfm?page=9 for more details on this wealth of knowledge and experience in stand up fighting and BJJ, coming to the students of Campbelltown Martial Arts!!!!

Adults Martial Arts Grading

Campbelltown Martial Arts adults recently graded in what would be one of our smallest gradings ever. 3 white belts going for orange and Joel Doyle going for provisional black belt. Whilst it was a small grading all students grading showed a lot of heart, especially Joel grading by himself. This was made a little bit easier thanks to the loyal students who stayed back to work with Joel and offer support. Thank you to all those students. Joel’s techniques were crisp and sharp. He is now just one belt away from black belt.

unfortunately I had to say no to a number of students who wanted to grade as their name was not on the grading list and they had missed to many classes. If you want to grade you need to be training regularly and have your name early on the grading list, not two weeks before hand.

The next grading is Wednesday 27th June. Please put your name on the grading list if you intend to grade. You also need to be training regularly to get your modules marked off.

Eagles Martial Arts Grading Update

Eagles students at Campbelltown Martial Arts recently had their second grading for the year. The kids were enthusiastic and excited, especially those grading for the first time. For the first time ever we had such a large number of green belts grading to blue belts and becoming seniors.  Well done to the following students for receiving the spirit award, Zoe Brown, Yazmin Mason and Harrison Pudner.

Gradings at Campbelltown Martial Arts are tough, no matter how old you are or how many you’ve been through, they never get easier. This grading two of our most senior students took the stage to demonstrate the skills they have learnt over the past months in return for the ultimate glory of another black belt stripe. Once they achieve all their stripes they will be ready for an adult Green Belt – so its worth fighting for on their way to an adult Black Belt at Campbelltown Martial Arts!!!

As for Jesse this was his first grading as senior belt, which meant a wood break. For some a wood break is the most daunting part of a grading. Jesse demonstrated all his techniques to the best of his ability and the practise outside of class showed. Jesse’s wood break took 3 sidekicks to snap it in half.

6 months ago Erin received her Black and last night came back to earn a stripe. By her side all the way was Harrison searching for a 2nd stripe and after missing out on the last grading due to injury, he had a point to prove. Harry exploded off the ranks displaying intense focus and speed in his hand techniques. Described as “Harry your on red Cordial” (Michael)  The cordial ran dry for a short time, but as a true junior black belt he came home strong, even giving his sister Brianna a couple of cheap shots along the way. When it came down to the wood break on an ADULT BOARD, he narrowly missed out on the elbow break, just cracking it. Unfortunately the anguish became too much and tried a sidekick, finishing what he started and after a couple of attempts broke it flush in the middle of the board. Breaking an adult board with elbow strike has eluded our junior Black belts and over the years, many adults.

This martial arts grading was a hard one for Harry and no matter what we threw at him, he came out the other end stronger for it. He showed spirit and determination way beyond his years and as such received a “Spirit Award”

Erin showed a lot of poise and growth during her grading. Technically strong and her falls out of throw’s were one of her highlights. When Erin first experience falling out of throws, that some adults still are uncomfortable with, it was really confronting and there were a few tears, but not today. Erin demonstrated a great pole routine and experienced her first wood break on an ADULT board. A few attempts with the sidekick saw no result. Coming back after a break, there were a few more unsuccessful attempts, that’s until she switched sides and broke it immediately.

Highlights From the Eagles Martial Arts Grading

• All of the kids breaking their wood!!!!
• Enthusiasm and excitement from the Junior Eagles – soon to be “Falcons”, especially those grading the first time!!!!
• Harry’s hand technique and boxing and after a tough grading coming back to class the next day and Harry backing up with an important softball match!!!!
• Three junior black belts students have now experienced a grading, equivalent to that of an adult red belt grading at only 11. Two of them still in primary school. Makes you wonder what they can do at 15-16!!!!
• Having 7 kids grade to blue belt – Welcome to the senior class Kindra Doyle, Gryphon Doyle, Ronin Scott, Jack O’ Toole, Lachlan O’ Hare, Liam Mrkonja and Paolo Atas. We are sure you will make great senior falcons.

These kids are very resilient and can sometimes surprise you with how much spirit they have. No matter how much you test them, they find a way through with amazing spirit.

The next grading is scheduled for Monday 25th June. Visit http://www.hapkidobjj.com/index.cfm?page=14 for more details on our kids Martial Arts Programs.

Little Eagles Grading at Campbelltown Martial Arts

Last Saturday 30^th April 2012 CMA Martial Arts saw our Little Eagles (3 to 6 year olds) perform their best work and be on their best behaviour to show Master Michael that they are worthy of their next belt level.  Our grading took a whopping hour and a half as we had students grading from every belt colour starting from white belt students right up to those Little Eagles who have now gone through the entire Little Eagles program and have reached their final belt colour.  Many congratulations to Alexander Joyce and Dominic Haines who worked hard to perform all their work on the day to be awarded their last belt colour of purple/white.  Both boys have been training for approximately two years and are now eligible to join the next program, Junior Falcons, which will eventually take them to their Junior Black Belt.

As with every grading, Master Michael scores each student in every aspect of their syllabus and the student at the end of the grading with the highest score is awarded the Spirit Award.  This grading the award was presented to the following two Little Eagles:

Sonali Naidu and Alyssa Cartwright – well done ladies you both did an excellent grading and this also shows in your complete concentration during each and every training session you both attend!!

Changes to the Little Eagles Martial Arts Program

CMA Martial Arts is about to make some exciting changes with the Little Eagles.  We are just about to launch a new syllabus for the Little Eagles and once printed each student will receive a copy. The new syllabus will keep some work that is already in the current syllabus with added new work as well as  life skills for every student to become familiar with.    We will also see a change of name from Little Eagles to:

- the 3 &  years olds will now be called the Junior Eagles

- the 5 & 6 year olds will now be call the Eagles.

One more exciting change will also be the change of the belts.  The progress of colour stripes will remain the same, however, they will no longer have purple on each belt.  Each belt will now have the backing colour of white with the colour stripe running through the centre of each belt.  This looks very striking as the students’ uniforms are black.

Next Martial Arts Grading – Is Your Child Ready to Grade?

Our next grading for the Junior Eagles and Eagles is diarised for the end of June, so Miss Natalie and Miss Janelle are aware of those students who should be ready to grade and will work very hard with them to have them ready and shining on the day!!  Please remember that to grade the student must:

1. Complete at least 2 complete rows of training on their training card,
2. Be training regularly and understand their work.  Sometimes, especially with the Junior Eagles (3 and 4 year olds), even though their training maybe up to date, they may not necessarily be ready to grade mainly due to their age and this is fine. Each child is assessed individually and our Instructors, Miss Natalie and Miss Janelle, will discuss each child’s eligibility to grade with each child’s parent/s.   Martial Arts is a personal journey and all students and parents need to understand that students all grade at different intervals.

Any student wishing to grade needs to place their name on the “Grading Sheet” or check with Miss Natalie or Miss Janelle if you are not sure if your child will be ready

Good luck to all our students in their training for the next 7 weeks and we look forward to another successful grading at the end of June.