Kuk Sool Won of St Paul | Twin Cities Martial Arts with Classes for Kids, Adults, Families, and Workouts

We’ll be volunteering at Feed My Starving Children this Saturday, July 10 from 4:30 to 6:30 at their Chanhassen location.  We still have a few spaces, so sign up today.Click here for directions and more information about Feed My Starving Children.

Know your Super Seminar schedule! Tuesday, June 15 is testing for all Black Belt candidates.  No regular classes.  Testers must be at the school and warming up by 4:30pm for a 5-8pm test. Wednesday, June 16 is our Super Seminar (no regular classes).  We’ll be at the Groveland Recreation Center and all participants should arrive at 4:30pm.  The Seminar and promotion ceremony will end promptly at 8pm.  Parents are welcome to watch from the sidelines!

All registered students are reminded of our Jool Bong workshop on Sunday, May 16 from 3-5pm.  If you’ve taken a workshop before, please bring your weapon — if this will be your first, we’ll have a jool bong for you.  See you there!

Congratulations to our students who competed at the 2010 Midwest Tournament in St. Louis, MO!  Everyone did extraordinarily well, and we are very, very proud of you all:  Brian Berg (white belt, 40+), one gold medal, one bronze medal; Andrew Wyman (brown belt adult), one gold medal, two silver medals, and one bronze medal; Will Schuerger (Dahn Bo Nim adult), three silver medals and one bronze medal; Nicki Jones (First Dahn adult women) three gold medals, two silver medals, one bronze medal, and the Grand Champion winner in her division.   Also, we congratulate Mel Martin Jo Kyo Nim and Will Schuerger Dahn Bo Nim on excellent black belt testing!

One of our Assistant Instructors, Jenny Dahn Bo Nim, sent me this link. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100302185522.htm

Diet is everything you put into your body.  Have you ever tried keeping a written record of that?  It comes as a surprise to almost everyone — we seem to be peculiarly ill-suited to keeping track of what we have eaten and drunk during the day.  Here at Kuk Sool Won of St. Paul, we recommend a whole food, plant-based diet.  ”Whole food” means that the food is unprocessed or only minimally processed.  Even if you are eating whole grain bread, the wheat has been highly processed (into flour) and mixed with, well, check the label.  If it’s more than water, yeast and salt, I’d hesitate to call it bread.  ”Plant-based” means that most, if not all, of your diet comes from whole plants.  Leaves, stems, roots, and some fruits and seeds.  It’s a delicious and incredibly healthy way to eat.

Kuk Sool Won of St. Paul is thrilled to be hosting Kuk Sa Nim and the high-ranking Masters who will accompany him to teach our fourth Super Seminar.  Eligible Black Belts and Dahn Bo Nims will be testing on Tuesday, June 15, and the Super Seminar will be held on Wednesday, June 16.  Specific times will be announced soon, but these events will be replacing normally scheduled evening classes.  Every student is invited to attend the Super Seminar, regardless of rank; in fact, attendance is considered mandatory with only death or dismemberment counting as acceptable excuses!  Clear your calendars now.

We’ve opened a new class day and time for our youngest (and cutest) students.  Our Pre-Martial Arts class is specifically designed for children ages 4-6 years — those who are curious and enthusiastic about martial arts but too young for the Kuk Sool white belt (beginning) curriculum.  We’ve been offering a class on Fridays at 5pm for nearly 2 years now, and that class stays consistently full.  So, we’ve opened a second class time on Tuesdays at 5pm.  Class will last anywhere from 30-50 minutes, depending upon the age and experience level of your child.  Please call 612-578-5797 if you have questions, or feel free to just show up with your child, ready to try our Pre-Martial Arts class.

Thanks to all competitors, judges, and families who came on Saturday for our annual Kuk Sool Olympics.  This school-wide competition is always a lot of fun for everyone, and we’ll begin posting class scores today — how well did your class do in competition?  (Hint:  the more students from a class who attended, the higher the scores!)Calendar note:  We will be closed this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 4-6.

There will be colored belt testing this Saturday from 3-5 pm at Kuk Sool Won of St. Paul.  It should be a big one — I think we have over 30 people testing for everything from yellow stripe to our brown belt/black stripes who are “practice testing” for the privilege of being invited to test for Dahn Bo Nim.  If you’re going to be there, we’ll have a potluck immediately after, so please bring a dish to share.