Karate School's Barrie Food Bank Drive Big Success

 

Thank you to everyone for helping celebrate our 10 year anniversary! And thank you to everyone who donated to the Barrie Food Bank. Your food donations were overwhelming and exceeded our expectations! 7 overflowing bins plus 4 boxes of food were donated and picked up today.  

We hope everyone enjoyed all the food and demonstrations today!

New Karate Belts Presented in Barrie, Ontario

Dozens of students from RMA Karate Centres were recently presented with their new belt ranks after taking part in a traditional belt testing. The students ranging in age from 3 years to adult demonstrated their skills to their black belt instructors which included forms, weapons and self-defense. After meeting their requirements the students were presented with their new ranks.

The Little Dragon students ranging in age from 3 to 5 years old were presented with their stripe belts after showing their focus, good listening, forms demonstration and self-defense.
• Yellow Stripe - Dominic Poulin
• Orange Stripe - Alex Scarati and Christopher Shaw-Cosman
• Green Stripe - Easton Rygersberg
• Red Stripe – Semiah Nicholson
• Blue Stripe - London Perry
• Brown Stripe- Noah Ledyit
• Half Yellow & Half Orange - Lotus Laycock

Students ranging in from 6 years to adult underwent a longer formal testing and after passing were presented with their new rank:
• Yellow Belt – Andy Caron, Ella Graber and Alex Cottton
• Orange Belt – Danielle Pacheco, Reed Senechal, Logan Krale, Tristan Aikens and Sarah McGuire
• Red Belt – Daniel Shaw-Cosman, Isabella Lombardo, Hudson Perry and Claire Boushy
• Green Belt – Gideon Meenye and Lucas Bruno

• Blue Belt – Joshua Boushy

• Purple Belt – Devin Strachan
• Brown Belt – Emily Kay, Jacob Allen, Nicolas Bruno and Wesley Wu
• Advanced Brown Belt - Sam Stubbs

Decade Celebration for Barrie Karate School

You are invited! We are very excited about our upcoming 10 year anniversary celebrations. RMA Karate Centres first opened our doors with 8 students and we have grown since then with two schools in Barrie (North & South.

Our celebration will include an Open House of our south location, demonstrations, BBQ, prizes, draws and more!

We invite everyone including students past and present to take part in the festivities! if long distance keeps you away we ask that you kindly donate 10 items of food to your local food bank.

Keeping with our community directive we will be holding a Thanksgiving food drive for the Barrie Food Bank. With it being our 10 year anniversary we are asking all our guests to bring 10 items to donate to the food drive. Every person who donates 10 items will have their name entered into a draw for their chance to win a $50 Cineplex Gift Card!

Mark you calendars - Saturday October 3rd 11am to 2pm
Stop by, and meet the school owner, world karate & kickboxing champion Tressa Young.

Kids Specialty Programs in Barrie

Listening to the needs of parents and kids who wanted specialty programs, RMA Karate Centres is now taking registration for two new programs specific for young kids and one of these programs is offering a free first class.  Both programs running out of RMA’s Barrie south location are extremely affordable with a low fee of only $15 per month and are pay as you go with no long term commitments.

  

World Karate and Kickboxing Champion Tressa Young will be offering a free kids kickboxing class on Tuesday September 15^th. The class runs for 40 minutes (6:15pm to 6:55pm) and is for ages 7 to 12 years old.     Unlike a cardio kickboxing class kids will be kicking & punching bags and working with partners all the while having fun while getting fit.  No experience is needed and  anyone interested in continuing after the first free class can sign-up that night for a full month of lessons at only $15 pay-as-you-go.

Yoga Instructor Jessica Harvey will be instructing a girls only Yoga program for ages 8 to 17 with classes running every Tuesday 5:45pm to 6:15pm.  The girls only yoga program is open to all levels and all body types with absolutely no experience needed.  Classes start Tuesday September 15^th with registration required and fee of only $15 for a full month of lessons.

“There is a need for both of these programs and a need for these programs to be assessable to everyone at an affordable price.  The girls only Yoga makes sense and Jessica is a great role model and instructor for the girls.  She held a free trial class recently and the group of girls who took part in the yoga class just loved it.  My kids kickboxing class is an extension of my adult kickboxing class and just made sense.  We use bags, mitts, gloves and everyone loves it.  I’ve already started taking several registrations for the free class and I’m excited to teach it.  We have a good mix of both boys and girls for the kids kickboxing and I can’t wait for September 15^th “, RMA owner and instructor Tressa Young.

Young’s resume in the martial arts is extensive including winning 64 world medals (37 of which are gold) at the World Karate & Kickboxing Commission’s world championships that have been held in Europe and North America.  Young has been on the national team 10 times and continues to grow her resume that includes stunt performing and acting.

To learn more about these and other programs call 705-796-1994 or email info@rmakarate.com

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!! World Karate & Kickboxing Champion Tressa Young will be running a FREE Kids Kickboxing Class for ages 7 to 12 years old.

This is open to RMA Students and the public. No experience needed and all fitness levels welcome! Gloves recommended but NOT needed. Limited Space so be sure to call to reserve your child's spot!

Why Kids Who Do Karate Get BETTER GRADES

RMA is unique with low student teacher ratio. Come in for your FREE trial class! Back to School Special ends soon!

Rigorous academics require discipline: A good student is one who understands that life is not a free-for-all, where they can just do what they want when they want. Good students do their homework even when their favourite show is on TV. In order to get good grades, they must complete their homework, turn it in on time, and study and prepare for tests. The trait necessary for achieving all these is discipline. Karate helps to develop this discipline because it helps students learn structure, order and most importantly, how to have self-control.

Being prepared leads to success: Much of academic success hinges on being prepared and organized. Think about it, what good is it to write the greatest essay since Charles Dickens if you leave it at home and so can’t turn it in on time? Karate teaches kids that they always need to be prepared. For example, when they’re sparring, they know they need to stay in fighting stance and stay on their bounce so they can explode into action when they need to. Kids who train in
karate carry this trait over to their school work.

Good students have to be able to focus : With all the opportunities and channels of Entertainment available to today’s kids it can get difficult to focus. But in order to cope with rigorous schoolwork, students must learn how to listen to the teachers and not get distracted by their surroundings. Karate can help your child to develop this very important character trait; focus and concentration. When in karate class, they learn to shut out distractions, whether they’re external (classmates playing around) or internal (negative thoughts and doubts).

Setting and achieving goals is critical to success: Success comes from achieving a series of smaller goals which ultimately culminates in the accomplishment of larger goals. In school, this could mean finishing an essay on time or reading a few chapters ahead of the class. In karate, it means passing a grading and earning a new belt. As a karate student, your child learns to enjoy the satisfaction of accomplishing goals and this will spur them to seek out opportunities to replicate in school and at home.

Physical activity builds cognitive functions : Researchers have discovered that physical activity levels have been positively linked to cognitive function during development in school-aged children. Besides the neurological connotations, giving kids an outlet to move their bodies can actually help them academically by improving their memory and increasing their attention span. Karate is a very physical activity so can help build cognitive functions as well as serve as an outlet to help improve memory.


Karate can be extremely useful for your children to boost their school grades if they are already “A” students. If they are having problems with school work, it can also help them by helping to develop necessary skills to become a very good student.

Contact RMA Karate Centres today.

www.RMAKarate.com

Ph 705-796-1994

Email: info@rmakarate.com

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KARATE STUDENTS MOVE UP A LEVEL

RMA Karate Centres recently held two formal belt testings where students demonstrated their technique, forms, self-defense and sparring skills to the black belt grading panel. 

The traditional belt testing was separated by age with the Little Dragons age 3 to 5 years having a shorter 30 minute testing compared to the students 6 years and over whose testing was determined by their individual belt level.  For some of the higher ranking students this meant a testing lasting four hours.  The 28 students did an amazing job showing their abilities and after passing were presented with their new rank.

The following students were presented with their new rank from World Karate Champion Tressa Young:

3 TO 5 YEAR OLDS:

Yellow Stripe – Alex Scarati, Devin West and Justin Pacheco

Orange Stripe – Brooklynne Buckingham and Semiah LaRochelle

Red Stripe – Henry Welsh

Purple Stripe – Noah Ledyit

6 YEARS AND UP:

Yellow Belt – Danielle Pacheco, Sarah McGuire, Tristan Aikens, Hakeem Kane and Maya Ciccone

Orange Belt – Daniel Shaw-Cosman, Isabella Lombardo, Jeffrey Pacheco, Theoron Weber, Claire Boushy and Stefan Badea

Red Belt – Ayvah Parchment, Lucas Bruno, Alexander Rozario and Jordan Boushy

Green Belt – Joshua Boushy,

Blue Belt – Bruno Ravenese, Quinn Rozario

Purple Belt – Alyson Caron, Kathryn Belliveau, Shaelyn McBride

Advanced Brown Belt – Kassandra Caron

To learn more about RMA Karate Centres or its programs call 705-796-1994 or visit www.rmakarate.com .