• Bushido club will be held on Friday, March 22nd from 7-8:15 p.m. Please bring your bo/jo and your bokken. We may do some rolling and practical self defense as well … still uncertain. But hope to see you there!
• The last day of classes for this 10 week session at Merritt Canton is fast approaching. The children have been working hard to learn their material for advancement to the next belt level. Promotion day will be Saturday, March 23 from 10-11 am.
• Children’s promotions for the Towson Merritt location will be held on Saturday, March 23rd from 1-3 p.m. The promotion candidates list will be posted shortly.

• Pamfilis Karate Academy now has a Facebook page … check us out! Hopefully you can find something to “like.”
• We will have regular class schedule on Monday, February 18th … this is our regular scheduled class to fight and hopefully all fighters can make it to class as we will be “helping” the 6 students preparing for their black belt test in New York to get ready for their promotion.
• Jack Vandiver had his karate birthday party this past weekend … thank you for letting me celebrate with you and Happy Birthday! If anyone is interested in holding their next birthday party with me, you can reach me at 410-499-2476.

Kyoshi Karen teaches Jack and his birthday guests how to break a piece of wood.

• Make up promotions were held last Friday night, with 3 students promoting.
• We will celebrate another Purple Friday! Congratulations to the Ravens, the World Champions!
• Bushido Club is this Friday night from 7-8:15 p.m., brown belts and above should bring their bokken.
• St. James and St. John’s off-site programs start this week! St. Paul’s and Federal Hill started last week…everything back in full swing!

1. Promotions were held on Saturday at the Towson Merritt. Everyone did a fantastic job and received their new belts. Take a peek at some photos on the gallery page. Make-up promotion will be this Friday, February 1 during regular class time.
2. We have Bushido club Wednesday, January 30 from 5:45-6:45 p.m. Brown belts and above should bring their bo’s and/or jo’s with them to class.
3. Don’t forget, this coming Friday, February 1 is Purple Friday and students should wear their Ravens jersey or anything purple to class that evening! Kyoshi Karen will be wearing her purple hair, eyelashes and lipstick!

• We will follow a normal class schedule on Monday, January 21, even though it is a federal holiday.
• We will have promotions on Saturday, January 26 from 1-3 p.m. in the big group aerobics room.
• Please note the changes to the Friday evening class schedule – all ages, all belts will meet from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
• Information and flyers have been posted for off-site Spring classes.

Showing our Ravens Spirit on Purple Friday! Superbowl XLVII, here we come!

The Fall session at St. James Academy finished up last week. It was a great session and all the students were successful in breaking their piece of wood. We even taught the new head of school, Mr. Adler, to break a piece!

Just a reminder that St. John’s will be finishing up on Thursday and Canton will finish on Saturday, December 8th. St. Paul’s will end their Fall session on Friday, Dec. 14th and Federal Hill will be Weds, Dec. 12th or the 19th (TBD this week).

Also, a reminder that the Friday night class schedule will move to an all-in-one class this week: class time 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Mind/Body Studio.

1. There will be no classes this coming Friday, November 23rd due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
2. We will hold a make-up promotion on Monday, December 3rd during regular class time for those students who were unable to make it this past Saturday.
3. Effective December 1st, 2012, only one Friday night class will be held. The class will be from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and will be a blended class for all ages!
4. If you haven’t stopped by our gallery pages in a while, there are plenty of new pictures! Take a look!

On Sunday, October 21st, Seido celebrated their 36th anniversary at John Jay College in NY. Kyoshi Karen had the privilege of getting her picture with the male and female grand champions of fighting, Kyoshi Chris and Senpai Maura. Abe Novick, from our dojo competed in both kata and kumite divisions. He did a fabulous job and had a wonderful experience. Several other Towson students made the trip to NY to support Kaicho and Nidaime in this celebration. Thanks to all for your support! Osu!

The celebration tournament will take place on Sunday, October 21st at John Jay College.

Kyoshi Karen would like to encourage all adults to participate either by competing or volunteering. Children can participate in the demonstration.

Click on the links below to download the documents:

Application
Team Application
Rules and Regulations
Tournament Demonstration Release Form

Also, we have 3 students (2 junior and 1 adult) preparing to take their black belt test the first weekend in October in New York with Kaicho!