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March 31, 2009

Events this weekend

The team are squeezing TWO tourneys in on Saturday.  Richard Parry, Zeke, Thelvin, Gareth & Josh are fighting in Te Awamutu with Sempai Kevin Mayber.   Then it’s a quick road trip down to Wanganui to watch Jamie have a rematch against Richard Hood on Saturday night.  Best of luck to all the boys!

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March 31, 2009

Kiwis at the 100 man

Just sharing some pics!  Nice to see our friend Jayson ‘Supercharge’ Vemoa (who has the best life ever!) and our own Sensei Paul Kleer at the 100 man kumite on Sunday.  As well as a few other superstars!  Sensei Paul was fight number 23!  That’s Emil ‘Iron Fist’ Kostov between Jayson & Paul (fight 93… [...]

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March 30, 2009

100 Man Kumite – Artur Hovhannisian

Congratulations to Shihan Artur for completing the 100 man kumite yesterday!   Only the very strongest fighters are given permission to even attempt the 100 man kumite.  The last one was Brazil’s Francisco Filho (also World Champion) about 10 years ago!  Jayson Vemoa (K1 coach to the Team Ichigeki) participated.   He called it “one of [...]

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March 23, 2009

Strength for Sport

Here’s a link  I know some of our instructors will love…
http://www.strengthforsport.com/NZASVideoGlossary.aspx

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March 13, 2009

Sports Psychology Guidelines for Sports Parents

Patrick J. Cohn, Ph.D.
Sports parents have a big impact on their young superstars. A healthy and successful sports experience will depend on sports [...]

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March 7, 2009

Beach session is cancelled this weekend!

The forecast is for howling northerlies which won’t be ANY fun!  Stay tuned, we may yet try again before summer completely disappears!

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March 5, 2009

Beach Session!!!

We didn’t have much luck with the weather last week so we’ll try again this Sunday 8 March.  If it’s **NICE** (no heros in this dojo) we’ll have a short session starting 10am at Lyall Bay beach.  Check back here for cancellations/changes in location closer to the time!

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March 4, 2009

More fascinating sporty links…

Developing a Self-Reliant Athlete – Winter 2009
This article discusses the role of the coach and what their responsibility is to the development of a self-reliant athlete. (USOC Olympic Coach E-Magazine)
A Three-Step Formula for Competition Readiness: From Preparation to Execution – Winter 2009
USOC Sport Psychologist Sean McCann determines what factors are present when athletes underperform and [...]

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March 1, 2009

Turning 10

I might as well blog the weekend now ’cause I’m too tired to do anything but type.
What a HUGE weekend!  I counted 62 at training on Friday night including lots of very old faces and guests from near and far.  Shihan Alex took everybody through the basics, the shere volume of which gave us goosebumps.  [...]

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March 1, 2009

Beach Session Today

The weather is far too miserable.   We will now meet at the dojo at 10am and have our ‘beach session’ there!  If the weather does a MASSIVE turnaround we might run down to Oriental Bay so bring shoes and be prepared to get wet!

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