Saturday Dec 10th BJC Masquerade Ball. Awards Night. Sunday Dec 18th Annual Christmas Family Picnic 10.30am - 1.00pm at Whitfords Nodes Park Tuesday Dec 22nd Final Training day for 2011 Wednesday Jan 4th Back to Training :-) CHRISTMAS PICNIC SUNDAY 18TH DEC Page 1-2 Dojo News Page 3 Kyoshi News GRADINGS Well done to all the students who graded in November and Decem- ber. Everyone has been training hard and it has definitely shown on grading day. Congratulations to Sempai Tim for achieving his 1st Degree Black belt at the state grading on Sunday, he completed a fantastic grading and performed an awesome personal kata that had the spectators cheer- ing in awe. A special mention to Luke Mc Cauley for passing his Jnr Black Belt also on Sunday. Luke is al- most 16yrs old and started his training at Spear Dojo at 8 yrs old. He regularly helps assist our Junior classes and is a valued student who is admired by others. Congratulations to Keane Hird for obtaining his Level 4 in MMA, he is one of our first Junior MMA stu- dents and is now the highest rank- ing due to his dedication to train- ing, well done Keane! Christmas Family Picnic is on Sunday the 18 th December 10.30am – 1.00pm at Whitfords Nodes Park. The park has BBQs, picnic tables, play equipment, bike racks, park- ing and toilet facilities, lighting, shade structures and the beach is close by. Bring your footy and soc- cer balls, cricket set, fun games and picnic hamper. Location: Whitfords Avenue, just north of the Hillary's Boat Harbour. FAREWELL FOR NOW Sad farewells to Annika Lindgren who is leaving to live in Melbourne and Arnhem Peterson who has gone to live in Queensland. I hear they are going to keep up their training over east so that is great. Hudson and Bailey Cook who are travelling around Australia for 12mths will be missed. Have a great trip! Don’t forget us.
December 8th Newsletter Spear Dojo
Mar 17, 2016
Christmas Picnic, Gradings and Club information and News from Spear Dojo Martial Arts and Fitness
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Saturday Dec 10th BJC
Masquerade Ball.
Awards Night.
Sunday Dec 18th
Annual Christmas
Family Picnic
10.30am - 1.00pm
at Whitfords Nodes Park
Tuesday Dec 22nd
Final Training day for 2011
Wednesday
Jan 4th
Back to
Training :-)
CHRISTMAS PICNIC SUNDAY 18TH DEC
Page 1-2 Dojo News
Page 3 Kyoshi News
GRADINGS
Well done to all the students who graded in November and Decem-ber. Everyone has been training hard and it has definitely shown on grading day.
Congratulations to Sempai Tim for achieving his 1st Degree Black belt at the state grading on Sunday, he completed a fantastic grading and performed an awesome personal kata that had the spectators cheer-ing in awe.
A special mention to Luke Mc Cauley for passing his Jnr Black Belt also on Sunday. Luke is al-most 16yrs old and started his training at Spear Dojo at 8 yrs old. He regularly helps assist our Junior classes and is a valued student who is admired by others.
Congratulations to Keane Hird for obtaining his Level 4 in MMA, he is one of our first Junior MMA stu-dents and is now the highest rank-ing due to his dedication to train-ing, well done Keane!
Christmas Family Picnic is on Sunday the 18 th December 10.30am – 1.00pm at Whitfords Nodes Park.
The park has BBQs, picnic tables, play equipment, bike racks, park-ing and toilet facilities, lighting, shade structures and the beach is close by. Bring your footy and soc-cer balls, cricket set, fun games and picnic hamper.
Location: Whitfords Avenue, just north of the Hillary's Boat
Harbour . FAREWELL FOR NOW
Sad farewells to Annika Lindgren who is leaving to live in Melbourne and Arnhem Peterson who has gone to live in Queensland. I hear they are going to keep up their training over east so that is great.
Hudson and Bailey Cook who are travelling around Australia for 12mths will be missed. Have a great trip! Don’t forget us.
EMBROIDERY
The next drop off dates for uniform embroidery are:
7th and 14th Dec. Only $40 Be sure to bring in your uniform before-hand to have it
personalised
FIGHT NIGHT RESULTS
Two awesome fights, two well de-served wins!
Luke and Daniel Jones both repre-sented the club on Saturday 19th at the WKA’s final fight night for the year. Both fighters competed in Mixed martial arts (MMA).
Luke’s fight was vicious and brief, displaying his ever improving striking with a combination of knees and punches. This lead to an impressive TKO half way through the first round.
Daniel was facing a much taller op-ponent, in sticking to the game plan he shot in early and wrestled him to the ground.
After a dominant ground battle in round one and a continuation on the ground in round two, Daniel secured a mounted triangle choke and made his opponent submit to ground and pound.
Congratulations to both fighters for putting on a great show. Don’t forget to support the club and its fighters in 2012!
GRADING PHOTOS
Keane Hird,
Jackson Egan and the only adult MMA gradee of the day Gavin Baldock!
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DRAGONS AND THE RED DRAGON
…….Cont from October Newsletter - Dragons and the Red Dragon
The Red Dragon epitomises every-thing that Zen Do Kai has repre-sented since its inception in 1970.
The mind, body and spirit of Zen Do Kai can all be seen through the eyes of the Zen Do Kai Red Dragon. The name's origins hark from the days when Soke Bob Jones competed in tournaments and was dubbed 'The Red Dragon' due to his ferocious fighting style. 'The Red Dragons' was the name given to Soke's first gen-eration family. The fifth dan grading form (kata) in the Zen Do Kai system is named, aptly, 'The Dragons Way' (Seipai).
Colour plays a major role in the Zen Do Kai philosophy of Senjo. Red is the first of the seven major colours when white light is refracted through a prism. This is symbolic in Senjo. The same seven colours appear in the rainbow (a metaphor to the dragon myth), in which, red always appears first.
In Zen Do Kai, students are taught that the colour red is predominant in the traditions of all peoples. It is the most vital colour in the spectrum and has been given the richest symbol-ism, being assigned to virtue and sin, love and hatred, patriotism and anar-chy - qualities that are contradictory but always intense. The colour Red is therefore a natural fit for the Dragon in the context of Zen Do Kai.
Acknowledgements
D. Martin
W. Spear
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