March was a busy month – classes have been going well. Lots of students have been moving up, and the energy level at the studio has been great. We had 23 new students in March, including 10 adults, and our retention rate has been great!
News:
This week – we will have a special Junior Sparring class on Thursday from 7PM to 7:30PM.
Saturday – no change to classes in Carrollton, but we do have a schedule change at Stonebriar. The new schedule at Stonebriar is: 3PM – Juniors / 4PM – Little Dragons / 4:45PM – Adults
April 13 will be the last Tuesday class at Stonebriar until after summer. We’re thinking about adding another Junior and Little Dragon class during the day – suggestions about times would be appreciated.
Testing this week at the studio! Tonight, we promoted: Renee to Junior Purple, Amanda to Junior Purple, Giani to Junior Yellow, Marquelle to Blue and Jim to Purple. We also started the testing process on William for Junior Brown. The promotion to Brown has become more intense – rather than a single class, it’s a process that can last two weeks, or two months. It involves the student taking a leading role in classes, helping to lead and teach, going to sparring classes, working the techniques and forms for all the belts. It’s the point where he or she makes the jump from intermediate to advanced rank, and although there are three classes of brown, brown is still the last color before black. It’s a big step, and we take it seriously. William lost his place, recovered, completed coordination set, and we’ll be working with him to move him up in the coming weeks.
High School and College Self Defense – we have a special program this summer for high school and college students. It’s two months of group and private classes with some extra material included, intended to develop specific self defense skills in a short amount of time. More information can be found at http://powerkenpo.com/handouts/studentSelfDefense.pdf.
