American Kenpo

Dear School Owners,

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in the first World Universal Kenpo Karate Championship to be held in New Zealand - Aotearoa (Maori for “Land of the Long White Cloud”).

We feel very privileged that we are able to host the first tournament and look forward to seeing you, your families and students in our beautiful country.

DATE: 6th - 8th April 2007

Please find included Registration Forms for the Tournament held in New Plymouth. Please complete these forms and registration details as soon as possible to give us an indication of numbers attending.

As we want to make this an enjoyable weekend rather than just a 1 day tournament we have a preset cost for the competitors and family attending (please see agenda). The cost includes the competition (regardless of number of events), dinner, BBQ and social events planned on Friday and Sunday.

Competitors $150

Family/Support $55

Pricing is in NZ dollar.

Registration forms can be downloaded from www.jeffspeakman.com.au

Also included is a brief outline of an agenda for the weekend and general tournament information - we will provide further detail as the time approaches.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours respectfully

Simon Low

On behalf of the Tournament Committee

American Kenpo Karate Systems

Phone +64 9 419 9524

Email: Auckland@kenpo.co.nz

VENUE:

New Plymouth is situated on the west coast of the North Island between Auckland and Wellington. It is a picturesque coastal town with Mt Taranaki as the backdrop.

Auckland and Wellington both have International airports and are 4.5 hours drive or 40 minutes flight time away..

Check New Plymouth out on www.newplymouth.nz.com

The tournament will be held at the TSB Stadium

ACCOMODATION:

The Quality Hotel Plymouth International

Ph. +64 6 7580589

Fax. +64 6 7589949

Toll free +64 800 800 597

Web site. www.plymouth.co.nz

We are please to confirm bookings at the The Quality Hotel Plymouth International and the sister property The Auto Lodge Motor Inn are available now. We have secured 20 rooms so please book now.

I would advise booking accommodation ASAP as Easter weekend is always a busy time and most of the accommodation starts filling up from November onwards. There is also plenty of motels within 10 minutes of the venues but again these are generally the first to be booked.

Also, our families have opened their homes to help to accommodate those who are attending this tournament if you would like. Please contact myself or Fabian Niwa for details.

TRAVEL:

New Plymouth is classified as a town. Travel time is literally 5-10 mins to get most places within the town.

We are working on having buses organised to collect and deliver all Kenpo students and families to the tournament and events organised.

Coastal beaches are 5-20 mins drive and the Mountain is approximately 35 mins from CBD.

Please refer to the map attached.

WEATHER:

New Zealand will be just starting its spring so temperature will be between 20 and 24 degrees Celsius.

ITINERARY:

Friday 6th April 2007

East end surf club

1.30pm Official Maori welcome

3.00pm Registration of all competitors, coaches and parents.

5.00pm Meet and greet. BBQ / traditional Maori Hangi (food cooked in the ground)

Saturday 7th April 2007

TSB Stadium

8.00am Parade of countries and Mr Speakman to open tournament

9.00am Tournament begins

(a café is providing lunches at the venue available for purchase)

4.00pm Concludes Tournament.

6.30pm Dinner (formal dress)

Sunday 8th April 2007

YMCA Stadium

10am – 12pm Kids Seminar

1.00pm East End Surf Club - Fun and games

Swimming, Games, BBQ, Pig on spit.

TROPHIES:

Trophies will be awarded to First, Second and Third place Winners

MARTIAL ART SUPPLIES & CANTEEN:

Merchandise stands will be available at the tournament.

We have canteen facilities at the TSB Stadium, this is run by an independent catering company who offer a variety of healthy snacks.

REGISTRATIONS

Forms need to be completed and sent to taranaki@kenpo.co.nz

Entries close 28th February 2007

Late Entries 20th March 2007 (additional $50)

Plymouth Hotel

Tournament

American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.    

Sacramento Martial Arts

Tara and Amy are just loving having this new class! This last Thurs., we were delighted to see Josh back, as well as Matt and Trish. Jadon (4yrs. old) worked with his mom (Tara) on some blocks and such. He loves to kei when he kicks! Very cute.

Josh is a great new addition to our school. We worked on katas (short form 3) and looked at the differences in how we each learned it. Once we get the Speakman dvds, we'll all be changing to what he's doing. It'll be nice to all get on the same page.

Tara and Josh also worked on stick drills a bit too. That's going to make a fun addition to our curriculum as well. I love to learn kenpo!

We also worked on coordination set 2. It seems that none of us had really learned it before, so we're getting caught up. We reviewed blocking set 2 as well. It's funny how I seem to be learning more new things with us being on our own than I have in awhile.

Trish and Matt worked on reviewing some of their old techniques as well and working on some new ones. Tara is putting together a terrific drills binder for us to use so we'll be having some great new drills to do at every class.

If this class interests you, be sure to go to our website (listed below) and/or give us a call for more info. We expect to have more new students coming in on Tues and we'd love to have you be one of them!

American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.    

Sacramento Kenpo Karate

The School is Heating Up!

We have now officially had our first REAL class. Last night, we had several returning students show up, along with a new Brown Belt, Josh, who Tara and I met on the forum. We had a new student start tonight and two more who walked by and were immediately interested. They said they'd be back on Thurs. to start.

Tara and I switched off with the teaching, as we planned, but it'll take some time before we are smooth with it. We covered stance set 1, Obstructing the Storm (for new material), reviewed long 1 and short 2 and they did some drills.

It was a great time. We were glad to have such a great class and look forward to seeing everyone there again soon.

American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.    

Sacramento Kenpo Karate

This is the first post of our new blog site. Amy Long and Tara Turnbull have begun teaching American Kenpo Karate, at the Mather Sports Facility in Rancho Cordova.

Children's classes will be on Tues. and Thurs. from 6:30 to 7:30 and the adult class will be from 7:30 to 8:30 on the same days. The cost for this course is $60 a month and we don't need a contract because we feel you'll stay because you love it.

Our classes are fun, educational and a great workout. The course is taught by two experienced black belt women with over 45 years of Kenpo training between them. The advantage to having a woman instructor is that we have gone to classes largely with men, so we understand how to work with people larger than ourselves. We also have the female perspective, so we know how to work well with women.

We are looking forward to seeing you there! Contact the Mather Sports Facility for more information. (916) 362-1704

--Amy and Tara

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American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.