September 2010 News   Friday September 3rd Black Belt Club Seminar.  Tigers and Eagles meet 6:00-6:30 and Black Belt Club Panthers meet 6:30-7:15,   Monday September 6th we will be closed for Labor Day.      Testing in September              On September 9, 10, 11 we will be having testing. Testing is the way we promote students from one belt level to another. To be ready to come to your test, you should have both a blue and red stripe on your belt indicating that you have passed your progress checks. After passing progress checks, you will need to register for testing. The testing fee is $35 and the form for testing registration is right at the front desk. Please complete this paper work a head of time as it will greatly simplify the testing procedure on the day of testing. After you have completed your progress check and received your red stripe, have turned in your testing registration and testing fee, you will then be all ready to test. Please feel free to bring friends and family to watch the test.   This is a great opportunity to celebrate the success of reaching a goal.  Please review the testing schedule as it has changed for the Basic Panthers: Basic Panthers Phase 1: Now test with the BBC Panthers Phase 2, 3 on Thursday or Saturday Panthers Phase 1,2,3 ages 10.5 and younger: Thursday the 9th, 5:30-7:00 Panthers Phase 1,2,3 ages 10.5 and older: Saturday the 11th, 2:30-4:00 Tigers: Saturday the 11th, 10:30-12:00 Eagles: Friday the 10th, 5:00-6:30 Adults: Friday the 10th, 7:00 Self Discipline Projects Who: All students in the Tiger, Eagle and Panthers classes should be working on a self discipline project.  What: The self discipline project is something that they pick to work on getting better at doing or parents choose for their children to get better at doing. The idea is to improve an action using personal self discipline. When: These should be given to your instructor during your red stripe progress check. They DO NOT have to be signed by a teacher until the November test. This will give the teachers time to get to know you.  Stranger Awareness Program: Steal Proof Master This is a Stranger Danger seminar that every child should take. This program is unique in its ability to captivate children’s attention thereby instilling in them life-saving knowledge. It has taken the 10 most common abduction lures and created a character for each one. It will teach them about the 10 evil warriors, how to recognize them; and what to do to stay safe.  The kids will practice the actions to take against an evil warrior. The spotlight is on keeping kids from being stolen. Be safe back to school, help to make your child abduction proof. Saturday the 25th of September from 10:00-11:00am. This is free and available to all kids. Bring your friends, neighbors, bothers and sisters and cousins. The more children that participate in this program, the safer all children are. Private Lessons For any one needing private lessons, we have spots available during the day time hours. If getting into the dojo during the evening is hard with work and school schedules, please let us know and we can get something scheduled during the day for you with Stephanie Hempen. Also, remember that private lessons count as 2 classes.