Exams
Broad St. Business Campus Dr.
Fri. Mar. 18th Sat. Mar. 12th
Juniors- 4:00 pm Juniors- 10:00 am
Adults- 5:30 pm Adults- 11:00 am
*There will be no 4, 5 or 6:00 pm classes at the Broad St. school on
Friday, Mar. 18th . This includes the 4:00 pm Kinder Karate class.
**There will no regular classes on Saturday, Mar. 12th at our Business Campus Dr. location.
***Anyone concerned about being promoted and then having to compete at
the tournament on March 19th at that new rank, may opt to test in April.
Visit our website (for students) at www.bsk.showitsite.com
Send a friend to our marketing site at www.bskonline.com
*Check out our new Birthday Page. Simply click on the link on our home page.
*Also please like our page on Facebook!
Junior BBC Event (Broad St. & Business Campus Dr.)
Boxing/Sparring Class
This class will allow students to spar with full contact. This class
would be a great way for a child to experience and learn to deal with
the “adrenaline rush” experienced in real fighting or even a bullying
situation. Boxing gloves and full headgear will be provided. Students
participating in this class must be at least 10 years old, have parental
permission and sign up in the office. Enrollment in this class is
limited. Sign up in the office in order to participate. First come,
first served.
Broad St. Business Campus Dr.
Wed. Mar. 23rd Tues. Mar. 22nd
4:00-5:00pm 5:00-6:00pm
Junior & Adult BBC Event (Broad St.)
Team Taylor Practice
*It is time once again to prepare for the USEWF tournament that will be
held on Saturday, March 19th. This class will help students be prepared
for the Kata (forms) portion of the tournament.
Date – Tues. Mar. 15th
Time – 6:00 – 7:00pm
What – Tournament Style Kata Practice
Junior BBC Event (Business Campus Dr.)
Team Taylor Practice
Date – Tues. Mar. 15th
Time – 5:00 – 6:00pm
What – Tournament Style Kata Practice
*It is time once again to start preparing for the USEWF tournament that
will be held on Saturday, March 19th. This class will help students be
prepared for the Kata (forms) portion of the tournament.
Adult BBC Event ( Business Campus Dr.)
Team Taylor Practice
Date – Tues. Mar. 15th
Time – 6:00 – 7:00pm
What – Tournament Style Kata Practice
*It is time once again to start preparing for the USEWF tournament that
will be held on Saturday, March 19th. This class will help students be
prepared for the Kata (forms) portion of the tournament.
Leadership Team Event (Broad St.)
Date – Wed. Mar. 16th
Time – 7:00 – 8:00
What – Bo Staff Class
Snack - Cookies
Leadership Team Event (Business Campus Dr.)
We hope to see everyone at the Special Kid’s race, running with our group, on Saturday, March 19th.
Leadership Team Ju Jitsu Class (Broad St. & Business Campus Members)
Date – Sat., Mar. 12th
Time – 12:00 – 1:00pm
What – Ju Jitsu Class
Where – Business Campus Dr. Location
Instructor – Mr. Oceguera
* This class will normally meet on the 3rd Saturday of each month at
our Business Campus Dr. location atnoon. This month it is meeting on the
12th due to the Federation Tournament, which is on the 19th.
Attention Orange Belts
As an orange belt, please be aware that one of the
requirements to be able to test for your blue belt is that you have to
be sparring in class. Thus, you need safety gear. Minimum sparring
equipment consists of head, hand and foot gear along with a mouthpiece.
Shin guards are also highly recommended. One of the benefits of joining
the Black Belt Club is that you receive all of this safety equipment
along with much, much more in your Black Belt Club package. If you have
received an invitation to join the Black Belt Club, but you have not
made an appointment to discuss joining with Mr. Taylor yet, please
simply contact the school office. It is at least worth talking about. We
look forward to hearing from you.
Monthly Tuition Payments May Be Made Online! Bushido students or
their parents may make their monthly tuition payment early, pay in
advance or pay off their account in full at www.efconlinepayments.com. You would need to know your account number in order to do this. You may get your account number from the Karate school office.
New Adult Advanced Class Time at Business Campus Dr. Location!
A new adult advanced class time will begin Wed. Mar. 2nd at
6:00pm, at our Business Campus Dr. location. This class will meet every
Wed. evening from 6:00-7:00pm. The complete adult advanced class
schedule is now Mon, Tues, Wed & Thurs evenings from 6:00-7:00pm.
Bad Weather Policy
Anytime you are not sure whether the Karate School will be
open or not due to the weather, please simply call the school to find
out. There will either be someone there to answer your questions, or
there will be a very clear message on the answering machine stating that
we will be closed due to ice or snowy conditions. Just because schools
may be closed, doesn’t necessarily mean the Karate school will be
closed.
New Black Belt Club Benefit
Chris and Sherry Sale, travel specialists, are able to
assist the Bushido School of Karate’s Black Belt Club members, along
with their friends and family, with as much input and recommendations or
as little assistance as they would like in planning their vacation
travel. Regardless of the amount of assistance that they want in
planning their vacation, Chris and Sherry will be able to help them save
money and/or get them value added amenities for use on almost all of
their Resort and Cruise Vacations, including Walt Disney World, over the
“discounted” online vacation/cruise websites or the Company websites.
In order to receive these savings and/or value added amenities, BBC
members MUST contact Chris or Sherry Sale at either (615) 295-8388,
(888) 394-4178 ext 2, or send them an email at s.sale@cruiseone.com
Website Link: http://BSKBBC.HonorTravel.com
Closed Easter Weekend
We will be closed Friday, March 25th and Saturday, March 26th for Easter Weekend.
Compete at the USEWF Tournament
The United States Eastern Wado-Ryu Federation will hold the
14th Annual C.T. Patterson Memorial Championship Tournament on
Saturday, March 19th at Columbia State Community College in Columbia,
TN. We encourage all BSK students to make plans to attend and compete.
We have a long tradition of having the most students from a single
school compete, and a long tradition of bringing home numerous trophies.
Our students always do extremely well at this tournament, so please
make plans to attend.
You can register several different ways. You can email or
phone the USEWF Headquarters at renmei@comcast.net / (615) 365-8600. You
can go online to the Federation website at www.useasternwado.com
and get all the details about how to register or about the different
divisions offered at the tournament. You can pay online at the
federation website using your debit or credit card through PayPal. We
will not be accepting your registration forms and payment for the
tournament at the school. Pre-registering will help you avoid long lines
trying to register at the tournament site on the day of the tournament,
which is also an option that you have. Pre-registration cut off is
March 15th. Please see detailed flyers about the tournament posted
around the school.
Please come to the tournament and be a part of celebrating our great
Federation and our awesome style of Martial Arts! This tournament is a
great environment for someone who has never competed before, or if you
have very little tournament experience. Even if you don’t decide to
compete, please come out and support your friends and classmates as they
compete. *Candidate belt levels will compete at the rank you just
moved up from. A purple candidate will compete with the blue belts,
green candidates with the purple belts and brown candidates with the
green belts.
Karate School Family Cookbook Charity Fundraiser
The Leadership Team members at both of our locations are collecting
recipes for a charity cookbook fundraiser. They will be collecting
submissions for several months, and the cookbooks will go on sale this
summer. Proceeds from the sales will go to a charity partner.
All karate students and their family members are welcome to submit
recipes. Recipe sheets will be available at the school, or you can send
an email to shelby.c.hughes@vanderbilt.edu , please include all
necessary information.
We want you to get creative! Come up with fun karate recipe names for
your submissions! (Examples include “Karate Crab Cakes”, Kiba Dachi Key
Lime Pie”, and “Shuto Uke Sherbert”.
Special Kid’s Race Charity Fundraiser
Once again, the Special Kids race is here! We have a team sponsored by
Bill Taylor's Bushido School of Karate, and would love to have the BSK
students and their families join. The race is March 19th. Our team is
BSK Team 2016. We will have a booth set up at the race, so please come
by and visit! If you would like to support Special Kids through a
donation, we have an impact page on the website Impactspecialkids.com.
Our fundraiser is BSK Team 2016 there as well. We will also have
donation boxes at both BSK locations - please look for them. All funds
raised will go to help kids who are unable to afford services through
Special Kids. No child is ever turned away because of inability to
pay. Every dollar makes a difference. Please help us help the kids!!
Leslie Shearon
Leadership Team Peace Corp Fundraiser/School Supply Drive Update
Last Year One of our students and former Black Belts, Ryn Duncan, had
the opportunity to go to Shinshicho, Ethiopia as a Peace Corp Volunteer,
working as an English teacher.
In an effort to help her with much needed school supplies, our
Leadership Team spear-headed a school supply drive which ultimately
collected several boxes of supplies including paper, pencils, crayons
and other class room necessities.
The Leadership Team also organized a car wash, which collected $950 that was sent as a donation to the Peace Corp.
A special and heartfelt THANKS goes out to our fine Leadership Team for
their excellent hard work and dedication, lead by Miss Hughes, and to
all the parents and students that made this effort such an outstanding
success!
Also, we’d like to give a special thanks to Ryn Duncan for volunteering her time to such a noble and worthy cause.
Get Your Home Training Kit
Help your child do their best and take their training to the next level
with a Home Training Kit. This invaluable tool includes the most
popular and helpful training devices: Blocker, Floppy Bag and Square
Target. This kit is on sale for the entire month of March for $88.
Students who purchase this kit will also receive a FREE Private Lesson
with an instructor. Regular Price $110. See signs and displays posted
around the school.
Congratulations
We’d like to congratulate several of our students who recently took an
exam for various levels of Black Belt. We are very proud to promote:
Shodan (1st Degree Black Belt)
Tomoki Shiratori
Nidan (2nd Degree Black Belt)
Chamberlin Little
Briona Carney
Michael Hamby
Brian Williams
Michal Davidson
Joshua Wheaton
Isiaih Kam
Bethany Gregg
Skylar Herron
Sandan (3rd Degree Black Belt)
Stephanie Lucksinger
Thai Srisuriyo
Don Srisuriyo
Alvin Rigsby
Carrington Little
Lowell Alexander
Hannah Curry
Yondan (4th Degree Black Belt)
Brandon Jones
Steve Morris
