Tiger-Rock Academy Newsletter

For the week of: 07/17-07/26
Cycle Tenet: "Perseverance: Giving up is not an option. If I can dream it, I can achieve it!"

Good Afternoon,

This is week #5 of 8 in our current training cycle for our martial art programs.

Newsletter Highlights:

1. Goals for the week
2. World Tournament Competitors Rock Competition!
3. Priority Exam Registration
4. S.P.A.R.K. Award
5. Merit Badges
6. Tax Free Weekend
7. Upcoming Events

Wow! The Tiger-Rock World Championship was a Great event:)
Here are a few of my take aways from event: 

1. Everyone wants to win but not every one does. GREAT! This is a good thing. I hope it teaches you to plan more, train harder and in return takes you to that next level.

2. Everyone thinks their kid is the best, the cutest and should never lose. GREAT! You should believe in your child more than anyone else in the world. Your child should not see disappointment in your face when they lose. They learn from us how to handle success and defeat.

3. There are bad calls and mistakes. Bad calls are bad calls. You might think I'm a great judge but trust me that if you watch me long enough I WILL screw up. I'm human....I make mistakes. It's not intentional. Trust me, judging happens too fast to plan it. NO ONE WANTS TO BE A BAD JUDGE.

4. Training starts tomorrow for next year. One less coke, 10 more sit ups, 10 minutes of stretching a day, no more French fries...you want to be the best? Prove it. Get off the bench and in the game ALL year. I would walk on the mat tomorrow if possible and trust me I would win. You will not out train me. You can be an animal if you train like one year-round. You feel that you were better but judges went the other way? Make it so obvious that it's undeniable.

5. I could go on and on but let's finish up here. Let's love our team. Not your team but TIGER ROCK. Loyalty is important and I want my guys in my corner but I want to see everyone get better. I don't care who you are and who your instructor is. I'm going to love you and your goofy non retracting side kick. Love me with my passionate over the top personality. Love that kid in your ring that never wins but gives all they have. Love that one that always wins. Love the long days and terrible food:) 

Self esteem and value are not centered around wins and losses. You determine that. 

The Tiger-Rock World Championships were a blast, and our students and instructors did phenomenal. We are so impressed with everyone's enthusiasm, dedication, and martial art abilities at an event with over 1,500 competitors. Please congratulate the following students and instructors on their accomplishments:

Skyler Fetty: 1st Point Sparring, 3rd Board Breaking
Jeremiah Bowman: 1st Traditional Forms, 1st Point Sparring
Ethan Bowker: Competitor Recognition
Austin Holbrook: 2nd Traditional Forms, 3rd Point Sparring, 2nd Board Breaking
Nathan Holbrook: 3rd Extreme Performance, 2nd Traditional Forms, 3rd Point Sparring, 1st Board Breaking
Logan Holbrook: 1st Agility Course, 1st Tiger Cub
Zack Justice: Competitor Recognition
Selina Harb: 1st Point Sparring, 1st Agility Course,
Kait Kurdziel: 1st Traditional Forms, 1st Agility Course, 2nd Board Breaking
Myra Hamilton: 3rd Board Breaking
Calvin Hamilton: 3rd Board Breaking
Scott Bailey: 2nd Traditional Forms, 3rd Point Sparring, 3rd Open Sparring
Billy Hazelip: 3rd Board Breaking, 3rd Point Sparring, 3rd Open Sparring, 3rd Traditional Forms
Josh Hazelip: 3rd Team Open Sparring, 2nd Agility Course, 3rd Board Breaking

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:
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

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.

Merit Badge deadlines are coming up soon! Have you been participating in our balance merit badges at the end of class? How about participating in your five hours of community service? Martial Artist strive for excellence, and we want all of our students participating in the merit badge program.

Tax Free Weekend is coming up August 1st-August 3rd. All Tiger-Rock Apparel, Uniforms, Backpacks, and more will be tax free this weekend. If you need new pants, shorts, etc. tax free weekend is the time to purchase them.

07/21-08/02: Priority Exam Registration

08/04-08/08: Deadline Exam Registration (Additional $10)
08/09: Tiger-Rock Rank Exams (August)
09/02-09/03: Tiger-Rock Pictures (Please plan on attending to be in our poster)

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)

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)

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)

Breaking News: Tiger-Rock Martial Arts student, Ghandi, takes GOLD in Sparring

Please congratulate Ghandi Harb for taking Gold in Sparring at the 2013 Tiger-Rock World Championships. Way to go man!