Friday, June 27, 2014

History of Tiger-Rock Martial Arts

History Our Past to Our Present

The martial arts have grown out of a human need for self-defense and strengthening the spirit. While Westerners tend to think of martial arts as Eastern, there are paintings on the tombs in Egypt dating back to 3000 B.C. demonstrating hand-and-foot fighting. From another Western cultural center of the ancient world, the Greek philosopher Plato mentions skiamachia, fighting without an opponent (analogous to our Taekwondo forms), combining skills from boxing and wrestling so that the whole body is used as a weapon.

Tiger-Rock Martial Arts recognizes Taekwondo, Korean in origin, as the preeminent martial art, an unequaled method of unarmed self-defense that is also highly artistic in its execution. Taekwondo techniques evolved over thousands of years to attain the greatest speed, power and artistic beauty.

History of TaekwondoThe history of Taekwondo began roughly ten thousand years ago when the ancestors of the Korean people migrated from Central Asia to the peninsula that is now Korea. They relied mainly on hunting to survive, climbing rugged mountains, crossing strong rivers, and traveling along the seashore in their search for food. These rigors developed strong bodies, superior fighting skills, and a sense of teamwork. Historians theorize that, upon their return, the hunters would reenact their motions of kicking, punching, stabbing, and throwing, also recreating fighting scenes with neighboring tribes with whom they had fought during the hunt. A natural outgrowth of reenactments was practicing movements in order to refine and perfect the techniques and their skills. Eventually these techniques grew into martial arts.

Formal martial arts training in Korea began approximately 4,000 years ago, consisting of running (daligi), throwing (dunjiki), punching or striking (jileuki), kicking (balchaki) and swimming (soo young). Weapons were also employed and included the stone knife (dolkal), stone spear (dolchang), stones for throwing (doldunjiki), sand spreading (moraisul), and wooden pole (mok bong sul). Eventually, archery and horseback riding were incorporated.

Taekwondo WarriorsIn the 6th century A.D., the Silla Dynasty ruled the smallest of the three kingdoms of Korea and was under constant attack from its neighbors. During the reign of the twenty-fourth king of Silla, the young aristocrats and warriors formed an elite corps called the Hwa Rang Do. To guide themselves and give a purpose to their knighthood, they adopted a five-point code of conduct set forth by their greatest monk and scholar, Wan Kany: 1) loyalty to one's country, 2) loyalty to one's parents, 3) trust and brotherhood among friends, 4) courage never to retreat in the face of one's enemies, and 5) justice never to take a life without cause. These students were also required to learn and live by the following Hwa Rang Do Nine Virtues: humanity, courtesy, trust and friendship, goodness, loyalty, honor, knowledge, courage, and conscience. The Hwa Rang Do warriors became known for their courage and skill in battle, gaining respect from even their bitterest foes. From their victories, the Korean Peninsula was united.

Taekwondo WarriorsTaekwondo warriors were taught to keep their minds and bodies in balance. They were taught to read and write and studied literature, painting, sculpture, dance, and musical instruments. The moo kwa (national examination for military officials) consisted of an actual martial arts contest and tests covering theory and strategy. The moo kwa produced military officials with both fighting knowledge and a good classical education. Tiger-Rock echoes the ancient emphasis on mental development with our required reading lists for rank and certification candidates, ensuring that our leaders gain greater insight through literature pertaining to the human experience. In the past, Taekwondo artists were known to be the kingdom or community members with the greatest skill and knowledge. They were expected to dedicate themselves to continuous training of the mind, body, and spirit (ki). This expectation continues today in the Tiger-Rock essence and philosophy.

During the Koguryo Dynasty, martial arts flourished. However, by the Yi Dynasty, an anti-military posture was taken, debasing anything martial. The final blow was delivered by the Japanese occupation of Korea (1909 – 1945) when it was forbidden to practice any form of martial arts. However, Taek Kyon was secretly practiced and passed on to a handful of students. (Some Tiger-RockGrand Masters and Instructors have been fortunate enough to receive formal training in Korea at the Taek Kyon Headquarters.) With the liberation of Korea in 1945 came the freedom to again openly practice martial arts. All of the present day Taekwondo Instructors can trace their origins to one of five Kwans: Chung Do Kwan, Song Moo Kwan, Ji Do Kwan, Moo Do Kwan, and Chang Moo Kwan.Won-kuk Lee founded Chung Do Kwan

The Tiger-Rock Martial Arts can trace its roots directly to Grand Master Won-kuk Lee, who founded Chung Do Kwan and developed the largest civilian gym, the Gym of the Blue Wave. Grand Master Won-kuk Lee is thus the first to organize and found modern Korean Taekwondo. (A delegation of Tiger-Rock Masters and Instructors were honored to attend G.M. Won-kuk Lee’s last formal seminar in 2002 prior to his death at age 96 in 2003.) As the new Republic of Korea (ROK) Armed Forces became organized, Choi Hong Hi, an officer in this army, began to teach martial arts to his soldiers. Chung Do Kwan’s was the largest and the only gym whose ranks were recognized by General Choi when civilians became soldiers. Following years of research and development by General Choi, the Chang Hun style of Taekwondo, named for General Choi’s pseudonym, was developed. On April 11th, 1955, a board of instructors from the different Kwans, historians, and other prominent persons selected Tae-Kwon-Do (foot – hand – art) as the new name of the national martial art of Korea.

General ChoiAfter 10,000 years, this Korean martial art has reached full maturity, developing from tribal dances of the hunt to an art form practiced in more than sixty countries by millions of students. This combination of classical techniques and new modifications has resulted in a form of self-defense and mental conditioning unrivaled in the modern world. As General Choi Hong Hi said, “TaeKwonDo indicates the mental training and the techniques of unarmed combat for self-defense as well as health, involving the skilled application of punches, kicks, blocks, and dodges with bare hands and feet…enabling the weak to possess a fine weapon together with the confidence to defend him or herself, and defeat the opponent.”

Tiger-Rock Martial Arts continues to preserve the historic traditions of Taekwondo first conceived 4,000 years ago by early artists, and recently revised by General Choi. Tiger-Rock acknowledges Grand Master Won-kuk Lee, the founder of Chung Do Kwan, as the beginning influence from which we came. Grand Master Lee was the teacher of many students who eventually assumed major positions within the martial arts community. Grand Master Lee said that students must never forget to appreciate their teachers. At the same time, students should always strive to have better techniques and higher moral characters than their teachers. Grandmaster Lee compared this idea to an old saying: "The color green comes from the color blue, but the green color is brighter than the blue. The ice comes from water, but ice is colder than water." In other words, the student is always better than his teacher. He believed that the martial arts will have a bright future if students live by these ideas. When a student does become better than his teacher, he must always remain humble and never forget to appreciate the techniques and moral code that he learned from his teacher. Once a student becomes a master, he should not forget that his position was a joint effort of both his and his teacher's sweat. Without the teacher, he could never have reached the level of master, just as there could be no ice without water and no green color without blue.

Tiger-Rock pledges itself to contributing to the art of Taekwondo, providing leadership and instruction in an ancient discipline that represents an alternative allowing practitioners to avoid the stresses and pitfalls of life in this modern age. This can be accomplished by teaching practitioners to strengthen their minds and bodies through regular Taekwondo training and to impact society honorably. This mission will be undertaken within the guidelines of our tenets: Honor, Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance, Self-Control, Courage, Community, Strength, Humility, and Knowledge.

The Grand Masters, Senior Masters, Masters, Instructors, and Black Belts Tiger-Rock Martial Arts are grateful to all who have pioneered Taekwondo. In particular we are grateful to Grand Master Won-kuk Lee, General Choi Hong Hi, Grand Master Haeng Ung Lee, Dr. He-Young Kimm, Grand Master Art Monroe, Grand Master Craig Kollars, and Grand Master Bert Kollars. Tiger-Rock recognizes their contribution. Artistically, we know that our curriculum, vision, systems and physical movements are unique.  We believe separate, mutually respectful, authentic styles of Taekwondo artists help preserve the diversity and original artistic nature of Taekwondo.  Tiger-Rock believes all martial arts programs and martial artists that commit to authentic training and lifestyle have merit. 

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Cool at 13, adrift at 23

At 13, they were viewed by classmates with envy, admiration and not a little awe. The girls wore makeup, had boyfriends and went to parties held by older students. The boys boasted about sneaking beers on a Saturday night and swiping condoms from the local convenience store.

They were cool. They were good-looking. They were so not you.

Whatever happened to them?

“The fast-track kids didn’t turn out O.K.,” said Joseph P. Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. He is the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Child Development, that followed these risk-taking, socially precocious cool kids for a decade. In high school, their social status often plummeted, the study showed, and they began struggling in many ways.

It was their early rush into what Dr. Allen calls pseudomature behavior that set them up for trouble. Now in their early 20s, many of them have had difficulties with intimate relationships, alcohol and marijuana, and even criminal activity. “They are doing more extreme things to try to act cool, bragging about drinking three six-packs on a Saturday night, and their peers are thinking, ‘These kids are not socially competent,’ ” Dr. Allen said. “They’re still living in their middle-school world.”

As fast-moving middle-schoolers, they were driven by a heightened longing to impress friends. Indeed their brazen behavior did earn them a blaze of popularity. But by high school, their peers had begun to mature, readying themselves to experiment with romance and even mild delinquency. The cool kids’ popularity faded.

B. Bradford Brown, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who writes about adolescent peer relationships and was not involved in the study, said it offered a trove of data. The finding that most surprised him, he said, was that “pseudomature” behavior was an even stronger predictor of problems with alcohol and drugs than levels of drug use in early adolescence. Research on teenagers usually tracks them only through adolescence, Dr. Brown added. But this study, following a diverse group of 184 subjects in Charlottesville, Va., starting at age 13, continued into adulthood at 23.

Researchers took pains to document the rise and fall in social status, periodically interviewing the subjects as well as those who they felt knew them best, usually close friends. About 20 percent of the group fell into the “cool kid” category at the study’s outset.

A constellation of three popularity-seeking behaviors characterized pseudomaturity, Dr. Allen and his colleagues found. These young teenagers sought out friends who were physically attractive; their romances were more numerous, emotionally intense and sexually exploring than those of their peers; and they dabbled in minor delinquency — skipping school, sneaking into movies, vandalism.

As they turned 23, the study found that when compared to their socially slower-moving middle-school peers, they had a 45 percent greater rate of problems resulting from alcohol and marijuana use and a 40 percent higher level of actual use of those substances. They also had a 22 percent greater rate of adult criminal behavior, from theft to assaults.

Many attributed failed adult romantic relationships to social status: they believed that their lack of cachet was the reason their partners had broken up with them. Those early attempts to act older than they were seemed to have left them socially stunted. When their peers were asked how well these young adults got along with others, the former cool kids’ ratings were 24 percent lower than the average young adult.

The researchers grappled with why this cluster of behaviors set young teenagers on a downward spiral. Dr. Allen suggested that while they were chasing popularity, they were missing a critical developmental period. At the same time, other young teenagers were learning about soldering same-gender friendships while engaged in drama-free activities like watching a movie at home together on a Friday night, eating ice cream. Parents should support that behavior and not fret that their young teenagers aren’t “popular,” he said.

“To be truly mature as an early adolescent means you’re able to be a good, loyal friend, supportive, hardworking and responsible,” Dr. Allen said. “But that doesn’t get a lot of airplay on Monday morning in a ninth-grade homeroom.”

Dr. Brown offered another perspective about why the cool kids lost their way. The teenagers who lead the social parade in middle school — determining everyone else’s choices in clothes, social media and even notebook colors — have a heavy burden for which they are not emotionally equipped. “So they gravitate towards older kids,” he said. And those older teenagers, themselves possibly former cool kids, were dubious role models, he said: “In adolescence, who is open to hanging out with someone three or four years younger? The more deviant kids.”

Dr. Allen offered one typical biography from the study. At 14, the boy was popular. He had numerous relationships, kissed more than six girls, flung himself into minor forms of trouble, and surrounded himself with good-looking friends.

By 22, he was a high-school dropout, had many problems associated with drinking, including work absenteeism and arrests for drunken driving. He is unemployed and still prone to minor thefts and vandalism.

But as Dr. Allen emphasized, pseudomaturity suggests a predilection; it is not a firm predictor. A teenage girl from the study initially had a similar profile, with many boyfriends at an early age, attractive friends and a fondness for shoplifting.

Yet by 23, Dr. Allen wrote in an email, “she’d earned her bachelor’s degree, had not had any more trouble with criminal behavior, used alcohol only in responsible ways and was in a good job.”

Dr. Mitchell J. Prinstein, a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies adolescent social development, said that while teenagers all long to be accepted by their peers studies suggest that parents can reinforce qualities that will help them withstand the pressure to be too cool, too fast.

“Adolescents also appreciate individuality and confidence,” he said. “Adolescents who can stick to their own values can still be considered cool, even without doing what the others are doing.”

Source: The New York Times


Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Tiger-Rock Academy Newsletter



For the week of: 06/16-06/21
Cycle Tenet: "Perseverance: Giving up is not an option. If I can dream it, I can achieve it!"

Good Afternoon,


This is week #3 of 8 in our current training cycle for our martial art programs.

Newsletter Highlights:

  1. Goals for the week
  2. Black Belt Camp Pictures
  3. New Merit Badges 
  4. Ninja Warrior Agility Seminar 
  5. Tiger-Rock World Championship Competitors
  6. Tiger-Rock World Championships
  7. Upcoming Events

Hey Team! We are on another exciting week of lessons with a focus being on agility training for our Ninja Warrior Agility Course this Saturday. We would like for everyone to participate in at least two classes this week at minimum with a goal of attending three classes. All students should have the perseverance definition memorized by the end of the week, as well as have earned their white, and yellow stripes. We have many new students and faces inside of the academy training for summer, so please be sure to introduce yourselves and welcome them into our Tiger-Rock family.
  

We had such a blast with all of our black belts last weekend at our Black Belt Camp. It was such a great bonding experience with the instructors and each and every student. We had adventures hiking 4 miles from Gorge's overlook to the bottom of the largest waterfall this side of the Rockies. It was definitely a great time to remember.  



We will have the following merit badges available this training cycle:
Skillbuilder Merit Badge:Students must balance while throwing a side kick that is at least waist level for a minimum of 45 seconds. Students cannot bounce, wobble, wiggle, or drop their kick below the waist in order to earn their merit badge.

Character Builder Merit Badge: Community Service. Students must perform five hours of community service. Please remember community is defined as "the area I live in. I choose to be a productive part of my community by practicing the tenets outside the academy." Students should document the time helping others, neighbors, church, etc., and have the appropriate adult sign off on the number of hours (not parents).
Academic Learning Stars: Please be sure to get your academic teachers to fill our your Partners-in-learning forms so you can earn your academic stars. Forms can be found at the front desk.

 Our Ninja Warrior Agility Course is coming up on June 28th. This was a huge event last summer, and will be even a bigger event this summer. Come compete in our ninja warrior course, and win prizes. Tiger Cubs: 1:30p.m., Juniors 2:30p.m., Teens and Adults 3:30p.m. Cost is $10.00.

 Parents and Students: If you or your children are competition at the Tiger-Rock World Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, please let Mr. Bailey know A.S.A.P. Furthermore, all students competing in Free Design Forms, Xtreme, or Weapons should bring their music and weapons to every class. Please make sure music is on a mp3 player.

Don't miss out on the 2014 Tiger-Rock World Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, Tiger-Rock's largest event of the year. Watch the Trailer(s)on Facebook ! All of our instructors will be competing at this event, and Mr. Bailey will be testing for 5th Degree. Check out the event at www.TigerRockEvents.com

06/28: Ninja Warrior Agility Course
07/04: Fourth of July (No Lessons)  
07/05: Classes resume on regular class schedule
07/10-07/12: Tiger-Rock World Championships (No Lessons)
08/06-08/09: Tiger-Rock Rank Exams (August)
09/02-09/03: Tiger-Rock Pictures (Please plan on attending to be in our poster)

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Tiger-Rock Academy Newsletter



For the week of: 06/16-06/21
Cycle Tenet: "Perseverance: Giving up is not an option. If I can dream it, I can achieve it!"

Good Afternoon,


This is week #2 of 8 in our current training cycle for our martial art programs.

Newsletter Highlights:

  1. Goals for the week
  2. Black Belt Camp
  3. New Merit Badges 
  4. Ninja Warrior Agility Seminar
  5. Tiger-Rock World Championships
  6. Upcoming Events

It is going to be another great week of training at Tiger-Rock. Our goal for this week is for all students to get their white stripe (life skills) by Friday. Please remember that we will not have classes this Saturday (06/21) for our Black Belt Camp at Fall Creek Falls. We will be focusing on sparring counters this week in our intermediate and advanced classes. Our beginners will be focusing on the #1 side kick/reverse punch and one step sparring.

Black Belt Camp is this Saturday. Black belt camp is open for all ages that are Juniors, Teens, or Adult Red Belt Level 3's. All participants must be registered by this Friday, and the cost is $50.00. Be sure to pack sunscreen, towels, change of clothes, bathing suits, snacks, tents (if you have one), sleeping bags, pillows, water bottles, and any other camping related items.

We will have the following merit badges available this training cycle:
Skillbuilder Merit Badge:Students must balance while throwing a side kick that is at least waist level for a minimum of 45 seconds. Students cannot bounce, wobble, wiggle, or drop their kick below the waist in order to earn their merit badge.

Character Builder Merit Badge: Community Service. Students must perform five hours of community service. Please remember community is defined as "the area I live in. I choose to be a productive part of my community by practicing the tenets outside the academy." Students should document the time helping others, neighbors, church, etc., and have the appropriate adult sign off on the number of hours (not parents).
Academic Learning Stars: Please be sure to get your academic teachers to fill our your Partners-in-learning forms so you can earn your academic stars. Forms can be found at the front desk.

 Our Ninja Warrior Agility Course is coming up on June 28th. This was a huge event last summer, and will be even a bigger event this summer. Come compete in our ninja warrior course, and win prizes. Tiger Cubs: 1:30p.m., Juniors 2:30p.m., Teens and Adults 3:30p.m. Cost is $10.00.

Don't miss out on the 2014 Tiger-Rock World Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, Tiger-Rock's largest event of the year. Watch the Trailer(s)on Facebook ! All of our instructors will be competing at this event, and Mr. Bailey will be testing for 5th Degree.



06/21-06/22: Black Belt Camp (No Lessons)
06/28: Ninja Warrior Agility Course
07/04: Fourth of July (No Lessons)  
07/05: Classes resume on regular class schedule
07/10-07/12: Tiger-Rock World Championships (No Lessons)
08/06-08/09: Tiger-Rock Rank Exams (August)
09/02-09/03: Tiger-Rock Pictures (Please plan on attending to be in our poster)

Monday, June 9, 2014

Tiger-Rock Academy Newsletter



For the week of: 06/09-06/14
Cycle Tenet: "Perseverance: Giving up is not an option. If I can dream it, I can achieve it!"

Good Afternoon,


This is week #1 of 8 in our current training cycle for our martial art programs.

Newsletter Highlights:

  1. Goals for the week
  2. Post Exam Week 
  3. New Merit Badges
  4. New Class Schedule
  5. Newly Crowned Miss USA Tiger-Rock Black Belt 
  6. Tiger-Rock World Championships
  7. Upcoming Events

Another fantastic presentation of our beautiful art by our students, and if you did not come to the Black Belt Rank Exams last Saturday, you really missed out on some special moments of our student excellence and dedication to our martial art.We will be having our rewards week of special classes, so please make every effort to attend as many classes as you can this week.


Please follow closely to this week's post exam schedule for class times and training options.

06/09: Academy Closed for Rank Exam Processing
06/10: Promotion Ceremonies (families may attend either ceremony, just notify a staff member)
            Tiger Cubs, White, Yellow, Green 5:15p.m.

            Jr. Blue-Black, Teens (Youth), and Adults 6:15p.m.
06/11: Forms Focus (Regular Lessons on NEW SCHEDULE)  
06/12: Sparring Focus (Regular Lessons on New Schedule; all green belts should attend the 6:30 class.)
06/13: XMA Extreme Focus (Regular Lessons on New Schedule)
06/14: NERF GUN WARS (Regular Lessons on New Schedule)

We will have the following merit badges available this training cycle:
Skillbuilder Merit Badge:Students must balance while throwing a side kick that is at least waist level for a minimum of 45 seconds. Students cannot bounce, wobble, wiggle, or drop their kick below the waist in order to earn their merit badge.

Character Builder Merit Badge: Community Service. Students must perform five hours of community service. Please remember community is defined as "the area I live in. I choose to be a productive part of my community by practicing the tenets outside the academy." Students should document the time helping others, neighbors, church, etc., and have the appropriate adult sign off on the number of hours (not parents).
Academic Learning Stars: Please be sure to get your academic teachers to fill our your Partners-in-learning forms so you can earn your academic stars. Forms can be found at the front desk.

Parents: Please pick up our new class schedule that will go into effect after our June Rank Exams. It includes day classes, gymnastic classes, white and yellow belt only classes, more weapons classes. It is going to be a great summer of movement. Please note the new class schedule goes into effect on June 11th, 2014.

The newly-crowned Miss USA 2014, Nia Sanchez, is a 4th Degree Black Belt with Tiger-Rock Martial Arts and has been training for over 12 years!

When asked the question: “Recently, Time magazine revealed that 19% of U.S. undergraduate women are victims of sexual assault in college. Why has such a horrific epidemic been swept under the rug so long, and what can colleges do to combat this?”

Sanchez replied: “I believe that some colleges may potentially be afraid of having a bad reputation and that would be a reason it’s swept under the rug, because they don’t want it to come out in public. But I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. Myself, as a fourth degree black belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself. And I think that’s something we need to implement for a lot of women.”

She also volunteers at women's shelters, teaching residents how to defend themselves and teaching kids about "stranger danger."

Congratulations, Nia. You serve as an inspiration to all of us! "If I can dream it, I can achieve it."


Don't miss out on the 2014 Tiger-Rock World Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, Tiger-Rock's largest event of the year. Watch the Trailer(s) Below!





06/10: Promotion Ceremony
06/11-06/14: Rewards Week  
06/21-06/22: Black Belt Camp (No Lessons)
06/28: Ninja Warrior Agility Course
07/04: Fourth of July (No Lessons)  
07/10-07/12: Tiger-Rock World Championships (No Lessons)
08/06-08/09: Tiger-Rock Rank Exams (August)

Miss America, Nia Sanchez, a Tiger-Rock Martial Arts Black Belt

The newly-crowned Miss USA 2014, Nia Sanchez, is a 4th Degree Black Belt with Tiger-Rock Martial Arts and has been training for over 12 years!

When asked the question: “Recently, Time magazine revealed that 19% of U.S. undergraduate women are victims of sexual assault in college. Why has such a horrific epidemic been swept under the rug so long, and what can colleges do to combat this?”

Sanchez replied: “I believe that some colleges may potentially be afraid of having a bad reputation and that would be a reason it’s swept under the rug, because they don’t want it to come out in public. But I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. Myself, as a fourth degree black belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself. And I think that’s something we need to implement for a lot of women.”

She also volunteers at women's shelters, teaching residents how to defend themselves and teaching kids about "stranger danger."

Congratulations Nia!


Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Tiger-Rock Academy Newsletter




For the week of: 06/02-06/07
Cycle Tenet: "Strength, is the ability to solve problems both mentally and physically. Strong mind...focus on purpose. Strong body...eat right and exercise."

Good Afternoon,


This is week #8 of 8 in our current training cycle for our martial art programs.

Newsletter Highlights:

  1. Goals for the week
  2. Rank Exam Schedule
  3. Post Exam Week
  4. Merit Badges due by June 7th
  5. New Class Schedule
  6. T-Shirt Sale
  7. Kama Weapon Enrollment
  8. Upcoming Events

An exciting week is in store for all of our students as they finish preparations for their martial art rank exams.



 Please note exams are highlighted in red, after a rank completes an exam there will be no other classes offered until 06/11. All students should be dressed in full uniform, and have required equipment for their exam. Please also follow closely next week's post exam schedule for class times and options.

06/04: Junior Grappling Rank Exam 5:30p.m. (No Black Belt Class)
            Adult Grappling Rank Exam 7:15p.m. 
06/05: Junior Blue-Black Belt Class 4:00p.m.
            Tiger Cub Rank Exams 5:30p.m.
            White, Yellow, Green Belt Rank Exam 6:30p.m.
            Teen and Adult Class 7:45p.m.
06/06: Junior Blue-Red L2 Rank Exams 5:00p.m.
            Red L3-Black Belt Class 6:30p.m.
            Adult and Teen Rank Exams 7:15p.m.
06/07: Red L3 & Black Belt Rank Exam 10:00a.m.
           Instructor Meeting/Workout/Team Builder Function 1:00p.m.
06/09: Academy Closed for Rank Exam Processing
06/10: Promotion Ceremonies (families may attend either ceremony, just notify a staff member)
            Tiger Cubs, White, Yellow, Green 5:15p.m.

            Jr. Blue-Black, Teens (Youth), and Adults 6:15p.m.
06/11: Forms Focus (Regular Lessons on NEW SCHEDULE)  
06/12: Sparring Focus (Regular Lessons on New Schedule; all green belts should attend the 6:30 class.)
06/13: XMA Extreme Focus (Regular Lessons on New Schedule)
06/14: NERF GUN WARS (Regular Lessons on New Schedule)

We will have the following merit badges available this training cycle:
Skillbuilder Merit Badge: The merit badge this cycle will have students practice their form 50x at home. Please pick up an A.L.L.Y. Program sheet at the front desk.

Character Builder Merit Badge:  Students will track their nutritional input everyday for six weeks, and indicate whether they consumed any junk food, if they ate any fruits and vegetables, and controlling portion sizes. At the end of six weeks, students will reflect on their nutrition, and any effects it may/may not have had on their own body.

Academic Learning Stars: Please be sure to get your academic teachers to fill our your Partners-in-learning forms so you can earn your academic stars. Forms can be found at the front desk.

Parents: Please pick up our new class schedule that will go into effect after our June Rank Exams. It includes day classes, gymnastic classes, white and yellow belt only classes, more weapons classes. It is going to be a great summer of movement. Please note the new class schedule goes into effect on June 11th, 2014.

The New Tiger-Rock 3D Shirts are on sale this summer for only $15.00! Limited Supply and Sizes are available.

Weapon Enrollment has now begun. Our weapon for next cycle will be the Kama's. The competition Kama's are $24.95, and the Elite Competition Kama's are $49.95. Weapon Training Classes are $40.00 unless on All-Access.


05/19-05/31: Priority Rank Exam Registration & Open Weapon Enrollment
06/02-06/07: Late Exam Registration, an additional $10.00 for rank exams.
06/04-06/07: Tiger-Rock Rank Exams
06/10: Promotion Ceremony
06/11-06/14: Rewards Week
06/21-06/22: Black Belt Camp (No Lessons)
06/28: Ninja Warrior Agility Course
07/04: Fourth of July (No Lessons)
07/10-07/12: Tiger-Rock World Championships (No Lessons)
08/06-08/09: Tiger-Rock Rank Exams (August)


Your proud instructor,
Signature 
Senior 4th Degree Tiger-Rock Black Belt & Certified TaeKwonDo Trainer
Tiger-Rock Grappling Trainer
CDT Protection Instructor


Phone: (865) 247-4437
Email: WestKnoxTigerRock@gmail.com
Website: www.WestKnoxTigerRock.com