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Tiger-Rock Academy Newsletter

For the week of: 08/05-08/12
Cycle Tenet: "Perseverance: Giving up is not an option. If I can dream it, I can achieve it!"

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. Martial Arts Testing
3. Post Exam Schedule
4. Teenage Mutant Turtle Cowabunga Party
5. Spark Award
6. Merit Badges
7. Upcoming Events

Good Afternoon,

It’s here, RANK EXAM WEEK ! Regular Classes Monday thru Friday this week!
We have a week every two months where our schedule is adjusted to hold our testing. That week will be this Saturday thru next Tuesay.

TESTING DETAILS
UNIFORMS: Uniform cannot be rolled up and must be hemmed to fit correctly! No Wrinkles!!!

EXPECTATIONS: We just want 100% you! Be focused, answer loud, run fast and give it all you got! 

WHAT IF I DO NOT PASS MY TEST? It would be easy to pass all of our students at testing but then your rank would be meaningless! Students who do not pass will re-test in 2 months at our next exam. Due to not passing, there will be no fee for your next test. There are no refunds for not passing. Just like no one can win every football game, soccer match or spelling bee, no one should expect to pass every TaeKwonDo exam. Not passing simply means the judging panel thinks you need two more months to refine some of the elements of your training. Of course getting a re-test is disappointing! But, if you get a re-test, accept the judging panel’s decision that you need more time to mature in that rank and commit yourself (not your parents or instructor) to work harder to be ready for the next test. We are committed to helping you obtain your goals! Be glad that your instructors care enough about you to help you reach your full potential.

Parents, we are so thankful for you referring your friends to the academy. We are opening up registration for the fall/back to school season. Make sure to let your friends know when they call that you are sending/referring them. We will be starting a referral program for back to school. Just have them name drop your name.

Our Tiger-Rock Rank Exams will be coming up for all colored belts on August 9th. Priority Exam Registration will begin on Monday. Please, Please, Please do not register your child for rank exams without consulting with a trainer team member first. 

Rank Exam Schedule on Saturday August 9th:
Please remember to arrive 20 minutes prior to your exam. 
No Weapons Class
No Grappling Class
9:30a.m. Tiger Cub, White & Yellow Belts
10:45 Jr. Green-Red Level 3 Rank Exams
12:45 Teens (ALL RANKS, ages 11-15), and Adult Rank Exams
2:00 Instructor Workout and Outing

Post Exam Schedule:
08/09-08/12: No Lessons
08/12: Promotion Ceremony
           5:15 Tiger Cubs, Jr. White, Jr. Yellow, Jr. Green Belts
           6:30 Jr. Blue-Black Belt, Teens, and Adults
08/13: Regular Class: Form Focus
08/14: Regular Class: Sparring Focus (Recommended for new green belts)
08/15: Regular Class Schedule
08/16: Superhero Day! Wear your favorite superhero T-Shirt to class! Pants and Belts still required. Bring your friends & come back to our Ninja Turtle Cowabunga Party!

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES COWABUNGA PARTY: Saturday August 16th 4:00-5:30. We will have pizza, green juice, games, and live demonstrations by your instructors. YOU CAN BRING A FRIEND FOR FREE! We will have a blast but space is limited. Sign up today!

Parents: If your child received Straight A's for the entire 2013-2014 academic year, please turn in your child's report card to be chosen as our 2014 Spark Award. A cash prize will be awarded to the winner.

The community merit badges are due by rank exams!!!

07/21-08/02: Priority Exam Registration

08/04-08/08: Deadline Exam Registration (Additional $10)
08/09: Tiger-Rock Rank Exams (August)
08/16: Ninja Turtle Cowabunga Party
09/02-09/03: Tiger-Rock Pictures (Please plan on attending to be in our poster)
09/20: Break Boards Break Barriers Seminar

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.

The 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.

In 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 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.

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.

After 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. 

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!

Tiger-Rock Academy Newsletter

For the week of: 05/26-05/31
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 #7 of 8 in our current training cycle for our martial art programs.

Newsletter Highlights:

1. Goals for the week
2. Merit Badges due by June 7th
3. New Class Schedule
4. New Freeze Policy
5. Kama Weapon Enrollment
6. Memorial Day Abridged Schedule 
7. Upcoming Events
   

We will begin preparing and reviewing for our June Rank Exams this week. Please remember Saturday is the last day to register for your rank exams. If you are missing any curriculum stripes by this point, please schedule a private lesson with an instructor.
Please register for your Priority Rank Exam Registration today through May 31st. Late Exam Registration (Additional $10.00) is June 2nd-June 7th.

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.

New Freeze Policy

Please review the requirements to freeze a membership at Tiger-Rock Martial Arts.

Process of Freezing Membership

■    All tuition & any unpaid invoices must be current & up to date for freezing of membership to be processed.

■    Written notice must be issued seven (7) days, or 1 week, in advance of auto draft or the draft will be made as scheduled, and then termination request will be issued.

■    The freeze policy will be in effect from freeze request date if prior to (7) days advanced notice of autodraft. In order to hold your membership at Tiger-Rock, a $15 monthly charge per student will be issued to your account until the original membership is activated, or a written termination request has been given to Tiger-Rock.

■    The freeze policy may only be enacted once per calendar year for a maximum of three months.

■    Please describe in detail the reason for freezing membership, and estimated length of freeze:

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. ENROLLMENT MUST BE COMPLETED DURING PRIORITY EXAM REGISTRATION.

We will be open on Memorial Day (05/26) running an abridged schedule.

Tiger Cubs 5:00p.m.

Juniors 5:30p.m.

Teens and Adults 6:30p.m.

Grappling 7:30p.m.

05/19-05/31: Priority Rank Exam Registration & Weapon Enrollment
05/26: Memorial Day Abridged Schedule
06/02-06/07: Late Exam Registration, an additional $10.00 for rank exams.
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.

Your proud instructor,

 
Senior 4th Degree Tiger-Rock Black Belt & Certified TaeKwonDo Trainer
Tiger-Rock Grappling TrainerCDT Protection Instructor


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

Website: www.WestKnoxTigerRock.com

Congratulations to Calvin Hamilton

Congratulations to Mr. Calvin Hamilton for achieving his 1st Degree L2 Black Belt tonight! We couldn't be prouder!

Tiger-Rock Students Donate Food to Second Harvest Food Bank

Proud of the Reeves crew and Jeremiah Bowman for working around their house and using their grade money in order to buy food for those less fortunate! If you would like to help out our Honors Team at Tiger-Rock, you may bring food donations to 266 North Peters Road to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank!

Tiger-Rock Tumbling Seminar

Don't forget next Saturday is our Tiger-Rock Tumbling Seminar for November led by ETSU Buc and National Champion, Seguin Warwick (pictured 2nd on right). $20 per person and FREE to All-Access Members! Beginners at 1:45, advanced at 3:30. Open to the community.

Tiger-Rock Academy Newsletter

For the week of: 9/23-9/28
Cycle Tenet: Knowledge, the result of being an active learner.

Good Afternoon,

This is week #7 of 9 in our training cycle.

Newsletter Highlights:

1.) Goal of the Week: Earn any missing curriculum stripes
2.) TaeKwonDo Training Seminar by Senior Master Greg Roy THIS WEEK! Register Now!
3.) Tiger-Rock Tuesday (Only 2 weeks left).

4.) Win a Trip to the Beach Referral Contest
5.) Know & Go Stranger Awareness Seminar for Kids
6.) Training for Life, A women's self escape seminar

7.) Preperation for Rank Exams (A.L.L.Y. program, Uniform Requirements, Partners-in-Learning)

8.) Private Lessons
9.) TaeKwonDo Rank Exam Information

10.) Upcoming Events

           

Our Goal this week is for all students to have complete the curriculum striping required for their rank.  Please login to your academy account (kicksite) to view your curriculum in your library. Be sure to discipline yourself to practice 5 minutes each day!

Special Guest Instructor Senior Master Greg Roy (9/28)

***NO TIGER CUB CLASSES***
***KID GRAPPLING CLASSES TIME CHANGE***
Don't forget this Saturday September 28th we will have a modified class schedule due to Senior Master Greg Roy teaching TaeKwonDo classes. The seminar is $10.00 for all students not on the All-Access Upgrade.
Class Schedule is as Follows:

Kid Grappling 8:00a.m.
Youth & Adult Ranks 9:00a.m. 
Junior Advanced Ranks 10:00a.m. (Brown-Black)
Junior Beginner & Intermediate Ranks 11:00a.m. (White-Blue)

Students should wear black training pants and Red Training T-shirt. Students wearing any other attire (other than apprentice team members) will not be allowed to participate.

Tiger-Rock Tuesday!

Don't forget our new tradition!  We know that everyone loves to sport the colors/shirts/hats, etc of their favorite teams!  Last week we started the "Tiger-Rock Tuesday" tradition. We want to encourage all students to wear one of their Tiger Rock T-shirt's to their school every Tuesday. Just like Tennessee fans love seeing other Vol shirts.....we want our students to feel empowered when they see all those Tiger Rock shirts in their local schools (in the hallway, lunchroom, fellow classmates, etc!). We are a team!  Wear your Tiger-Rock apparel to school tomorrow! Post the pictures to our facebook page and/or use hashtag #TigerRockTuesday.

Win a Trip to Pensacola Beach, Florida sponsored by Tiger-Rock Martial Arts

Refer a friend to Tiger-Rock, and receive points towards winning a vacation in Pensacola, Florida. 

Ask a Tiger-Rock Trainer, or Staff for more information.Competition Ends October 12th.

Know & Go Safety Stranger Awareness Safety Seminar for Kids

Join Tiger-Rock Martial Arts in America's most effective stranger awareness seminar for children ages 6-11. The goal to KNOW & GO®  is to get the child properly trained on how and why to become an obstacle when approached by an Abductor/Stranger. The focus for KNOW & GO® will be on teaching the children how to “outsmart the bad guy” with motor skills, obstacle positioning™ and acting techniques.  The cost of the 1.15 hour seminar is $10.00 (FREE TO ALL-ACCESS MEMBERS), and is on October 5th at 1:45p.m. for children age 6-11.

Training for Life, Women's Slef-Protection Seminar

Join Tiger-Rock Martial Arts & Tom Patire's CDT Systems in a Training for Life Seminar. The seminar utilizes basic ieas and principles to create a "window of escape" for yourself and/or with your children. The cost of 1.5 hour seminar is $15.00 (Free to All-Access). Please contact Tiger-Rock at (865) 247-4437 to reserve your spot today!

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 Don't forget about preparations for your Tiger-Rock A.L.L.Y. Program. We only have two weeks left for students to turn in their merit badges & partners in learning forms due October 12th. 

The confidence merit badge includes students 1.) choosing a tenet, 2.) telling the definition, 3.) providing a story that promotes the tenet, 4.) and speaking in front of their peers.

The round kick merit badge includes students performing 1,000 round kicks after class in thirty second burst. Tiger Cubs perform 100 front kicks. 

Don't forget to have your teacher fill out your academic achievement starts to go on your new belt. Please note the teacher must provide the signature on the form. You may pick up the form at the front desk. 

 

TaeKwonDo Rank Exams

Register Today for your TaeKwonDo Rank Exams by clicking the link in the automated email.  Be sure to prepare your uniform by making sure you have ALL of your patches, and required apparal. Please remember that both the way your appearance and endurance will now be apart of your evaluation at your rank exams, and wether you are eligible for secondary rank exams. ***MORE EXACT INFORMATION COMING SOON***

Friday Night (10/11)
Tiger Cub 5:00p.m.
White & Yellow Belts: 6:00p.m.
Apprentice Team Meeting 7:15p.m.

Saturday (10/12)
Jr. Green-Red Belt Belt 9:00p.m.
Jr., Teen, & Adult Black Belts 10:30a.m..
Colored Belt Teen & Adults 12:30p.m.

Apprentice Team Building Function at 2:15

Private Lessons 

Don't forget if you are a behind on your lesson credits, or need sprucing up before the rank exams, schedule a private lesson with an Apprentice Team Member. Schedule yours today!
Trainers: $20.00 per half hour
Leadership Members: $15.00 per half hour
Honors Members: $10.00 per half hour

Fantasy of Trees Volunteers
A good friend, and director at the Fantasy of Trees has messaged Mr. Bailey, and said they are in "desperate" need of teenagers and adults for volunteers this year! If you would like to assist in setting up for the event to benefit Children's Hospital on November 22nd., please let Mr. Bailey know. Also, if you have any youth groups/church groups that may be interested in helping at the event, Mr. Bailey can give you the directors contact information.




Upcoming Events:

9/28: Seminar  by Senior Master Greg Roy
10/05: Self-Escape and Protection Seminar for Women & Kids
10/11-10/12: Rank Exams
10/14-10/19: Post Exam Schedule (Modified Schedule Week)
10/26: Student Appreciation Halloween Party ***DATE CHANGE***
Please RSVP by the following link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B44A8A722A46-tigerrock2
11/09: Tiger-Rock Tumbling Seminar with National Cheerleading Champion & ETSU BUC, Seguin Warwick (Pictured on the Left at National Competition). 

Cost: $20 per person unless on All-Access
Beginners: 1:45p.m.-3:15p.m.
Advanced: 3:30-4:45p.m.

 
  





11/16: November National Championships in Chattanooga, TN

Your proud instructor,

 
Senior 4th Degree Tiger-Rock Black Belt & Certified TaeKwonDo Trainer
Tiger-Rock Grappling TrainerCDT Protection Instructor


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

Website: www.WestKnoxTigerRock.com