Open House

We are celebrating our 16th Anniversary! Tien Lung is hosting an Open House on Saturday, September 6th from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.! Be sure to come and visit us, we will have balloons, tattoos, face painting, demonstrations as well as various information booths of participants from the community. There will also be a City of Edmonton Fire Truck on-site! There will be a hot dog BBQ and if you bring a donation for the food bank, you can get a ticket for a free hot dog and drink! Every first time visitor also receives a free T-shirt! (Note: this is for non-members who are first time visitors)

We also need volunteers for this event to be successful, if you can help out please put your name on the volunteer sign up sheet (posted on the blue announcement board).

September Graduation

If you are scheduled to graduate please ensure that you have completed all your stamps, qualification code and have received your final pattern stripe by AUGUST 31, 2008 (No exceptions will be made). If you have any questions please see Mr. Santos.

Remember: One Private Lesson = One Stamp, you can book Private Lessons at the Front Desk.

The Graduation for this semester will be held on Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at Northlands Agricom, Hall D. Please feel free to being friends, family and your camera to the graduation! There is a $2.00 admission charge.

10:30 a.m.: Check In - Northlands Agricom, Hall D (Students must be changed into their full Dobok and belt for check in.)
12:00 p.m.: Graduation commences

Competitive Registration
Train to be a Champion!

If you are interested in the Competitive Program, you MUST attend the information session on Friday, September 5th at 7:30pm. This information meeting is for both Colour Belts and Black Belts. For those of you who are under 18, you MUST bring at least one parent to this information meeting. Following this meeting, members will complete their registration, therefore it is REQUIRED that you attend this day. No exceptions will be made! A late fee will be applied to any late registrations for processing. By registering in this program you become eligible to compete in at tournaments across Canada and around the globe.

Mini-Dragons (Parents & Tots)

Tien Lung Parents & Tots program (Mini-Dragons!!) for 2 & 3 year olds is starting on Saturday, September 20. The 10:15 am class is already FULL!! There is a second class being offered at 11:45 am. REGISTER NOW to guarantee a spot for your child! The fall session includes 10 classes, a free T-shirt, belt, and at the end they will earn an achievement star to go on their belt. A maximum of 15 children will be accepted per class. Please see the Front Desk for further information, or call (780) 669-6666 to register!

Does your child attend daycare or are you looking for an after school care alternative?

Your child doesn't need to attend a boring daycare anymore! Speak to one of our staff members about enrolling your child in Daily Dragons NOW! All of our routes are filling up fast, so sign up now before it is too late!

Just imagine getting five days a week of Taekwon-Do classes + PD Days + Camps (all year round)! The Competitive and Leadership programs are also included in the cost of Daily Dragons. If your child wants to earn his/her black belt after school, Tien Lung's Daily Dragon Program is the right place!

We are currently picking up from:

Aurora
Belvedere
Bishop Greschuk
Bishop Savaryn
Calder
Coronation
Crestwood
Delton
Delwood
Dovercourt
Father Leo Green
Grandin
Highlands
Inglewood
John A. McDougall
Katherine Therrien
Lauderdale
Montrose
Mount Royal
Norwood
Oliver
Our Lady of Peace
Riverdale
St. Angela
St. Bonaventure
St. Francis
St. Lucy
St. Pius X
Victoria
Virginia Park
Westglen

VIP Reward Program

Our VIP Reward Program is still going strong. Please remember, in order to qualify, your name must be written on your friend's blue registration form. If you have any questions, please speak to Miss Schwanke or any of our Administration Staff.

Congratulations to the following members who earned a total of $4710 in VIP membership rewards!

Nathan Barlow
Simone Benoit
Jessie Braybook-Fuller
Michael Caboteja
Braydon Cesario-Sonnleitner
David Cherrington
Mary Chisholm
Justin DeJesus
Dante Depaoli
Jordan Donaghey
Alyssa Edgerton
Aiden Godreau
Paris Gounder
Nicole Green
Bonnie Jenkins
Aaron Kennedy
Liam Mackay
Kirstin McCarger
Ethan McRobbie-Tibbo
Cole Messervey
Anthony Metzner.
Don Michaels
Chris Nieman
Preston Penrice
Jamie Perkins
Dan Pham.
Justin Pilling
Thaddeus Podtepa
Cassandra Pryer
Jackie Pryer
Caroline Skiba
Alexandra St. Germaine
Ryan Stone
Laurie Galvin
Temesgen Tamre
Brayden Timmons
Kips Workun
Ananda Wright
Cody Legault
Hunter McWatters
Michael Modesti
Hunter Novosel
Christine Unrau
Patrick Zeweniuk

T.L.P. Meeting

The next T.L.P. meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 23rd at 5:15 p.m. Please plan to attend if you are currently in or want to join the T.L.P.

Summer Student Appreciation Program Grand Prize Draw

You know those tickets that you have been signing at the end of every class? We will be doing the grand prize draw on Saturday, September 6th at 3:00 p.m., at our annual Open House. Just a reminder of the prizes to be won: 1st Prize - a board breaking machine & re-breakable board, 2nd Prize - a pizza party for you and up to 10 friends. You must be at the Open House to win!

August 2008 Winners!
Broc Arcand
Melissa Jenkins
Kim Hoang
Caleigh Young

Please remember write both your first and last names on all of your tickets.

The Apprenticeship Program

As many of you know, Tien Lung Taekwon-Do has a program designed to help students who love Taekwon-Do become Tien Lung School Owners. Currently we have 3 apprentice school owners: Mr. Pagnotta, Mr. Santos, and Miss Schwanke.
In order to provide experience in all areas of running a Tien Lung Dojang, the school apprentices will be rotating through various positions during their apprenticeship.
As of August 2008, Mr. Pagnotta is coordinating and teaching the T.L.P. program, Mr. Santos is in charge of Instructor Coordination and Miss Schwanke is working at the Front Desk and coordinating the Daily Dragon program.

Pro-Shop September Sale

Do you want to look like our World Athletes? We are blowing out our Tien Lung tracksuits this month! Our athletes wear these tracksuits to the nationals, and to many of our events and seminars throughout the year. This tracksuit available in the main lobby regularly priced at $170.00, but for this Month ONLY will be on sale for $80.00 (no additional discounts will be applied.)

FREE Square Target!

Do you want the Tien Lung Demo team to come to your elementary school? If you arrange for the team to come to your school to do their "How to Defeat the Bully without Fighting" seminar, you will receive a FREE square target!

Simply pick up your presentation request form from your instructor and bring it to your principal. If your principal is interested, have him/her sign the form and give it back to you. Then bring your form to the Dojang on or before October 17, 2008. Demos are booked on a first come first served basis. Only one presentation request form will be accepted per school.

When: November 27th, 2008
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Who: Children, 11 to 15 years, Red belt and up
Adults, 16 years and up, Parents and Students of all levels
Price: $45.00 ($36.00-BBC, $31.50-MC).

This course is open to parents as well as to students. Come and learn how the points system works for patterns and sparring and help out at tournaments by judging. It will also benefit your child because you will know what to look for and be able to teach your child how to become better at competitions. You and your child will become more aware of what the judges are looking for at tournaments. See the Front Desk to register.

Happy Birthday!

New Black Belts

We have some new Black Belts that will be walking our halls. They have all come an extremely long way and had a challenging Black Belt exam. Please congratulate them if you see them, and remember your etiquette.

Congratulations to the following people:

Third Degree Black Belt: Mr. Santos
Second Degree Black Belt: Miss Skiba
Full Black Belt: Mr. Adamson Jr.
First Degree Black Belt: Mrs. Bonnie Jenkins, Miss Ashley Easingwood, Mr. Yiorgos Thasitis, Mr. Nam Phan, Mr. Huy Phan, Mr. Boguslaw Wicek

Fall Schedule is Effect

The Fall Schedule is posted on the website. Please remember that you will be required to wear your full dobok. No T-shirts or shorts will be accepted in class after September 1st.

Note: The Daily Dragons time slot on the fall schedule is only available for the Daily Dragons students Monday through Friday and kids Competitive on Fridays. No regular program students will be permitted to attend this class.

The Saturday Little Dragons & Mini-Dragons classes do not begin until Saturday, September 20th.

Classes Canceled this Month
Mark Your Calendar

• September 1 - Dojang Closed (Labour Day)

Competitive Class Begins

Competitive Class will start on Friday, September 12th. If you have registered for this program, this will be your first class!

Kids ages 13 and under will attend the Kids Competitive class from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. on Fridays and students ages 14 and up are to attend the Competitive class from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Both classes are mixed color belt and black belt classes.

Note: Competitive program members may attend classes 5 days a week.

How to Deal with Bullying
Effectively, Safely and Powerfully

1. Address Bullying - It's Not Harmless
Bullying behavior - whether it's through threatening words or gestures, physically hurting or name-calling, mimicking, harassing or shunning (isolating someone) - is a destructive force in the lives of too many kids. Being the victim of a bully is an attack on a young person's self esteem and joy in life. Being a bully allows a child to build behavior, which will be destructive socially and professionally later in life. Witnessing bullying creates an upsetting distracting environment in which to play and work and learn. Potential bullies, victims and witnesses can learn to be assertive rather than aggressive or passive in dealing with problems that they experience directly or that they see happening.

2. Make bullying against the rules.
Make sure that your child's school has a clear written Violence and Harassment Prevention Policy, which everyone agrees to uphold. Tune in when kids are acting upset with each other and help them learn skills for handling conflict. Set an example for your children by not allowing people to bully you and by exercising the self-control necessary not to bully others. At home, work at stopping bullying behavior with the same commitment that you would use in stopping someone from throwing all dishes on the floor and breaking them.

3. Teach kids to act aware and confident
Bullies pick on kids who act scared, oblivious, or defensive. An alert, assertive attitude can help possible victims and witnesses stop most bullying before it starts.

4. Teach kids target denial skills
Target denial is a martial arts technique, which means, "Don't be there!" Target denial means not giving a bully a physical advantage by being too close. For example, kids can move away from someone who they know is a problem. Target denial means not giving a bully an emotional handle. One technique is to leave by smiling and waving and saying cheerfully, "No thanks!" very calmly and sincerely instead of acting scared or angry.

5. Teach kids the power of words
Teach your children how to protect themselves from words and by using words. Kids say that trying to "just ignore it when someone says something mean to you" doesn't really work. Stop serious name-calling with the same commitment that you would use to stop serious hitting. Teach kids to protect themselves from hurting words by imagining throwing them into a garbage can instead of taking them inside their hearts or their heads. Teach kids not to let insults; rude behavior or guilt trips trigger them into feeling intimidated or emotionally coerced by a bully. Kids need to learn how not to let what others say or do control their choices. They also need to learn how not to behave in emotionally damaging ways towards others. Teach kids how to set clear strong verbal boundaries in a respectful assertive way with people they know.

6. Teach kids to defend themselves physically.
To be effective in using other bully prevention tactics, kids need to know that they can protect themselves physically. As a last resort, kids need to know if and when and how they can hurt someone to stop that person from hurting them.

7. Teach kids to get help
Be someone your kids can some to with their problems without fear of you overreacting or belittling them or lecturing or getting mad at them. Even if the issues they bring might seem trivial to you, these issues usually seem big to them. Most of the time, kids just need someone to listen to so they won't feel alone. Being able to talk about problems can help a child to figure out what to do and put things into perspective. Having our kids in the habit of talking to us can also alert us to more serious issues.

8. Give the kids the chance to practice
Kids learn more by doing then being told what to do.

The Tien Lung Demonstration Team is available to come perform at your school. If you would like to have the Demo team come to your school and perform their Anti-bullying presentation, please see the Front Desk for more information.