TOURNAMENTS SEIBUKAN KARATE INVITATIONAL
Saturday, March 21st
Wichita, Kansas
Gage Teaney 11-12 Novice:
3rd Place Kata
2nd Place Sparring
Jake Winters 5-8 Intermediate:
2nd Place Kata
2nd Place Sparring
Chance Barr 9-10 Intermediate:
2nd Place Kata
1st Place Sparring
Alex Johnson 9-10 Intermediate:
3rd Place Kata
4th Place Sparring
Everette Gould Adult Intermediate Male:
4th Place Kata
Natalie Williams Adult Intermediate Female:
1st Place Kata
1st Place Sparring
Shayla Johnson 9-10 Advanced:
3rd Place Long Weapons
3rd Place Short Weapons
1st Place Kata
2nd Place Sparring
Dakota Douglas 11-12 Advanced:
2nd Place Long Weapons
1st Place Short Weapons
3rd Kata
2nd Sparring
Cristine Warring Adult Black Belt Female:
2nd Place Long Weapons
1st Place Short Weapons
2nd Place Kata
2nd Place Sparring
Eddie Alexander Adult Black Belt Male:
2nd Place Sparring
St. JUDE BENEFIT TOURNAMENT
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Topeka, Kansas
Chance Barr 7-8 Intermediate:
1st Place Team Kata
2nd Place Kata
1st Place Sparring
Alex Johnson 7-8 Intermediate:
1st Place Team Kata
1st Place Kata
3rd Place Sparring
2nd Place Advanced Sparring
Shayla Johnson 9-10 Advanced:
1st Place Team Kata
2nd Place Kata
1st Place Sparring
Dakota Douglas 11-12 Advanced:
1st Place Team Kata
1st Place Kata
1st Place Sparring
DAVE ESTES KARATE TOURNAMENT
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Eldorado 4H Building 200 N. Griffith Eldorado, Kansas
Contact: Dave Estes (316) 320-5425
PROMOTIONS
Jeff Gessling - Black Belt
CRIME VICTIM’S AWARENESS WEEK
WOMEN'S SELF DEFENSE
April 19-25, 2015
During the month of April the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) helps lead communities throughout the country in their annual observance of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. This year, NCVRW will be observed April 19-25, 2015. We will offer our free workshop for Women’s Self Defense on Saturday, April 25th. The class is open for ladies ages 13-over. Spread the word and save the date.
STATE GAMES OF AMERICA
August 2015
The National Congress of State Games will be hosting the 2015 State Games of America in Lincoln, Nebraska. The biennial multi-sport festival will take place July 28–August 2, 2015. All gold, silver and bronze medalists from National Congress of State Games Member State programs (Winter and Summer) in 2013, 2014 and prior to July 1 of 2015 are eligible to compete in SGA 2015. Final registration deadline is Friday, May 15th In order to allow organizers enough time to plan. All non-Nebraska athletes must be registered by May 15, 2015. If you are interested in attending the State Games of America start planning and getting your hotel reservations taken care of.
FIVE STATES OF MIND
There are many benefits to participating in the martial arts: physical fitness, strength training, confidence building, discipline, developing a stronger work ethic, and more. When thinking about the mental health reasons for investing time in the martial arts, one must also consider these identified five (5) states of mind.*
- Consciousness: Knowing what and how I’m thinking about what I am doing in this moment and being willing to be aware of my actions and their effects.
- Craftsmanship: Knowing that I can continually perfect my craft and being willing to work toward excellence and pursue ongoing learning.
- Efficacy: Knowing that I have the capacity to make a difference through my work and being willing to take the responsibility to do so.
- Flexibility: Knowing that I have and can develop options to consider about my work and being willing to acknowledge and demonstrate respect and empathy for diverse perspectives.
- Interdependence: Knowing that we will benefit from our participation in, contribution to and receipt of professional relationships, and being willing to create and change relationships to benefit our work.
- knowing (consciousness)
- striving (craftsmanship)
- initiating (efficacy)
- adjusting (flexibility)
- participating (interdependence)
*from Center for Cognitive Coaching, www.cognitivecoaching.com
Respectfully submitted,
Jean Gaeddert, 6th Degree Black Belt
GOALS, Part 2
Some time ago, I submitted an article to our school newsletter entitled “GOALS” (February 17, 2013). At the time, I was inviting you to think about goal-setting with two specific concepts in mind:
Something is better than nothing
My pace is the right pace for me.
I realize those concepts were helpful for my own goal-setting practices, specifically in the world of martial arts and my commitment to that discipline. Now, two years later, I am again looking at goal-setting but through another lens.
As a teacher, I often ask students to reflect on what they have learned, and then ask them to set new learning goals. It is not enough to reach a goal, but the challenge then becomes to set another, and then another, and then another. That is asking a lot of young children, but at the same time, they are learning to think deeply, prioritize and make meaningful decisions and, hopefully, realize the importance of those choices. We all set goals for a variety of reasons: health/exercise goals, work-related goals, academic goals, relationship goals, project-based goals, family goals, financial goals, etc. The question now becomes: how do we balance all of these goals? The following excerpt from an on-line newsletter (The BIG Fresh) encourages us to find our “true horizontal” point of balance:
There is a beautiful scene in Cutting for Stone, a novel by Abraham Verghese. A nun, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, is caring for a surgeon who is deathly seasick as they travel across the Indian Ocean to Africa. She is a nurse, and after doing all she knows to care for him, she is struck with a moment of inspiration. She hangs a hammock in his cabin, drags the sick surgeon to it, and feeds him into it limb-by-limb. “Answering more to gravity than to the roll of the ship, the hammock found the true horizontal,” which steadied him enough to relieve his motion sickness. I love the idea of a “true horizontal” and have been thinking about it as a metaphor in different aspects of my life. For example, in the throes of daily life--bills, laundry, band concerts, dead car batteries--being present with those I love is my true horizontal, with my clumsy practice of mindfulness serving as the hammock that helps me sometimes find it.
In spite of numerous “goals” that I am attempting to accomplish, I find that coming to karate class in the evening is often my “true horizontal.” It is that time of day when I am able to find balance regardless of the sometimes overwhelming list of things that need to be done in order to meet my goals. It is that time when I am able to set aside the pressures that can often accompany goal-setting commitments, and allow myself time to concentrate and enjoy the rhythm and challenges of karate under Mr. Williams’ guidance. It is that time when I do indeed sense that “true horizontal” point of balance.
Respectfully submitted,
Jean Gaeddert, 6th Degree Black Belt
“There is a difference between interests and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you only do it when it is convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”
If you want to read past articles from the AKMS Newsletter go to www.americankarateandmartialscience.blogspt.com. There are articles dating back to 2011.
