Last week two of our students earned their Black Belts, joining 43 others in our history at Whole Armor Martial Arts who have accomplished the same honor. That reminded me of something I read a few years ago. “For every 10,000 students who sign up for martial arts training, half […]
That’s right – last night on 8/1/14 Chuck Kerr and Janey Hume passed their Exam for Shodan – 1st Degree Black Belt!! Congratulations – we’re all very proud of your accomplishment!
Congratulations to the following students who tested last night on 8/1/14 and earned their new ranks! Olivia O’Dell – 1 Timothy Hurley – 2 David Owings – 3 Joshua Potts – 6 Jacob Jenkins – 7 Kyle Frazier – 7 Sean O’Banion – 7 Matthew Peterson – 9 Grant […]
The following students passed their Exam for new rank on 7/21/14 Ian Melhorn – 2 Jonathan Miller – 2 Elisabeth LaFayette – 3 Roger Lanier – 4 Aaron Pesacreta – 4 Aaron Spatz – 5 Jesse Noelck – 5 Alyssa Elliot – 7 Peter vonderLuft – 7 Greta vonderLuft – […]
We’re excited to announce that the following students passed their Exam for new ranks on 7/28/14: Jim Wilkins-Luton – 2 Trey Wilkins-Luton – 2 Raissa Karlsen – 2 Andrew Carson – 2 Gregg Chastain – 3 Ryan Owings – 3 Emily Zumstein – 5 Madeleine Olson – 7 Kyla […]
Isn’t it a great feeling to earn your next rank?? Once you have that new belt in your hands and are walking back to your spot in line to put it on it seems like you’re on top of the world! We’ve talked in other articles about the time and effort it takes to earn […]
Many years ago there was a show on TV that had an episode where the girls at a high school took Karate class to learn some self defense against a local bully. The funny thing is that it was portrayed much more like a dance class than a martial arts class! There was disco music […]
As we’ve been working on our new website one of our tasks has been gathering profiles from each of our Black Belts. A few you’ve seen posted on Facebook, and soon you’ll be able to access all of them by clicking on their photos here on the website. As their teacher it has been pretty amazing […]
We had a great evening of martial arts ministry at Liberty Bible Church tonight for their SLYM youth group! Sensei’s Colson, Merriam, Ruhe, Schober and Quarto did a terrific job demonstrating several levels of kata, breaking a bunch of stuff, and sharing personal testimonies. We also talked about how important it is to have God’s […]
It started just over a year ago when my daughter Kari started talking to me about creating a new website. Our previous one had served us well and was actually one that Andrew Colson had put together and surprised me with in October of 1999. Well, times change and so we started talking about something new. […]