Attention:
As of September 1st
New FALL/WINTER schedule in effect!!

Instructor/TLP Meeting

ALL Blue's & TLP's are expected to attend this months meeting on Friday Aug 5th after the FIRST Demo Team Candidate Class.

R.B.E. Program

The Red Belt Enrichment (RBE) program is designed to help our students excel.
The RBE Program is a program that is available to all Red Belts and Black Stripes regardless age. Students will earn the privilege to wear coloured chevrons on their left dobok sleeves once they have successfully re-examined for each junior belt level. This program has been created in order to provide an excellent opportunity for students to prepare and review material vital for their upcoming Black Belt examination. By earning all 10 chevrons students can be much more confident of a successful Black Belt Exam.
There is no cost to sign up for the program although you must purchase a new student manual to record their re-examination results. Please see Mr. Pagnotta for more information.

LITTLE DRAGONS

Mr. Pagnotta is RE-introducing the Little Dragon Program to Halifax. This Program is open to ALL 4-6 year olds. Come and check out your Future Black Belts at their earliest stages.

*For information, ask or call the front desk

NEW Competitive Program

For those of you who wish to compete in events hosted outside of Tien Lung, starting in September you will now be required to be in the Tien Lung Competitive program. This program gives you additional weekly practice and coaching in Patterns and Sparring and works towards training you for Competitions.

Demo Team

Mr. Pagnotta is introducing the Tien Lung Demonstration team to Halifax. The Candidate Classes will be on Thursdays at 8pm.

*Any students who are interested, talk to Mr. Pagnotta at the front desk*

Master's Club

If you haven't registered for Masters Club already, please proceed to do so. As there are only twenty spots left! You can register by booking a meeting at the front desk.

There are MANY benefits! :

• 2-3 classes per week!
• Pro-shop discounts
• 30% off training gear!
• 20% off Tien Lung clothing/ accessories
• 30% off Tien Lung social events, seminars & camps
• Additional 10% off on your birthday!
• Masters club badge & T-shirt - FREE!
• One PRIVATE lesson each month - FREE!

Happy Birthday!

All Students

Please put your name on your dobok tags (pants & top)! This will prevent potential mix-ups or loss of your dobok.

Also please visit the front desk ASAP if you do not have your name written on your sparring gear yet.

T.L.P. Tien Lung Leadership Program

Leading the way for to create excellent students!

The T.L.P. meeting for June will be held on Thursday 7th at 9pm at the dojang. All must attend!

WE NEED MORE T.L.P. MEMBERS!!!

We are always on the lookout for FUTURE Instructors! If you are interested in becoming a Tien Lung Instructor, this program is open to all Red Belts (ages 10 and up), just see Mr. Pagnotta or Ms. Dionne for an information package. This program runs all year and you can sign-up and anytime. New members are always welcome!

COME GET FIT WITH MR. P!!

Every Saturday at 12 o'clock noon, Mr. Pagnotta is welcoming all Parents and Students to join in on a NON FORMAL fitness class. Consisting of aerobics, core stability and much more.

* See front desk for details.

Black Belt Competitive Welcomes Back Saturday Classes!!

12:00-1:00 : Fitness class
1:00- 2:30 : Color belt competitive
2:30- 4:00 : Black Belt Competitive

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.