Such a pleasure to teach you all tonight, a big welcome back to leland jefferson and to David on your trail class hope you all enjoyed class. See you all next week 👊 👊 👊

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Looking forward to seeing you all at Marfleet tonight, remember that you can bring along family and friends for a free class and see if they like it, which I know they will. See you all soon, Sensei Mike 👊 👊 👊 👊

Attention everyone GKR are running a promotion of a FREE trial class.This is an ongoing promotion across the UK. Any person can come along and try a GKR class for FREE. There has never been a better time to start training in karate than now. Tell your friends and family to come with you to your class and try a karate class for themselves - FREE. They will love it!

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Great class back tonight, remember to set your goals. See you all next week for some more epic training

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First class back tonight Marfleet, let's make 2017 your year where you achieve greatness and smash your goals. For those of you who haven'tbeen for a while now is the perfect time to come back, new year new you. See you all tonight; Sensei Mike 👊 👊 👊

A special message from Shihan Stacey Karetsian to start 2017..... "Happy New Year to all of our students, families and friends. We trust you have had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed the festivities at this time of year. I would like to take this opportunity to wish for you the most amazing year in 2017. There is always so much written about the start of a new year - the New Years resolutions, all the great changes to be made, all the bad habits to be broken... it is all set out with the best intentions, yet, we are human after all, and there's always 'stuff' that's both within and out of our control that gets in the way of our great plans... and so the result of all this? I'd say for many of us, we don't stick to these plans, we quit, we fail. Well that's what it feels like right? Fact is there is no such thing as failure. Yet, because we believe it to be a form of failure we start to internalize it all. We put ourselves down. We tell ourselves that we're not good enough, we convince ourselves that we're not deserving or worthy... this is not a healthy way to live. Of all the amazing virtues that karate instills in us, some of the more appropriate that come to mind now are values such as being considerate, caring, kind. This is not just referring to the way we treat others. We need to be kind to ourselves too. So when we wish for internal or personal change, especially at this time of year when new goals and ideals are being formed, we need to give ourselves some flexibility, and appreciate that we are not perfect and nor are our plans. We can wish for more and continue to work on ourselves, and we must also give ourselves some slack when things may not go as planned. The big danger is that we might have tried to do something great for ourselves once, and we failed, so we don't want to try again. We naturally do not want to feel the pain that comes with the feeling of failure, so in order to protect ourselves we insist that we don't put ourselves in a position where this may happen again. This is not healthy. The fear of this failure lives inside our heads. We have to see it for what it really is, understand it, and control it. If there's one thing to wish for you this coming year, it's to give yourself more kindness, allow yourself to try, to fall, to get up again and keep going, because the only way for us to continue to grow and build on our skills and life experiences is to never be fooled into thinking that we are not good enough. We can try, we might fail, but we won't give in to thinking that everything worthwhile pursuing has to be achieved in one single shot. If we knew that we could never fail as long as we made progress, and never gave into our fears, we'd be great... nothing ventured, nothing gained. Have an awesome 2017. Fill your cup full of life, love, happiness and joy. Take risks, step out of your comfort zone, enjoy your journey. Stay at the top of your game, strive for constant improvement, become the best version of you... and remember, when you fall, or get side swiped by life, and you feel like you're not moving forward or getting ahead, tell yourself it's ok. It's actually exactly as it should be. We learn from our mistakes, in the Dojo and in life, and as long as we're in there taking a swing at it, it's going to turn out great in the end! Wishing you an amazing 2017, Shihan Stacey Karetsian"

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Hello R31. First of all happy new year to you and your family. I trust you all had a good break and are set to achieve some big things in your karate training under the watchful eye of your Sensei. Classes start back this Tuesday 3rd Jan as normal. I am hoping this year to visit more classes and meet with you and parents. Pls have something for your sensei to help you with this year. There are some amazing opportunities coming up to become a sempai and also help with the growth of your local dojo.... yes you can play a part. Should you or anyone you know wish to gain more information on this pls let me know (18 yrs and above). Regards SJD