Lakewood Dojo

We will be back on our regular class schedule.

Lakewood Dojo is proud to be participating in the Tacoma Sports and Fitness Fest, January 14 and 15, 10 am to 6 pm at the Tacoma Convention Center.  There will be karate demos, and classes for everyone to try on Saturday.  There will be a karate competition on Sunday.  It’ll be a lot of fun with tons of other activities.

You can visit the Sports and Fitness Fest website at www.letsplaytacoma.org

The West Coast Open was a huge success! The Lakewood Dojo earned an impressive 92 medals. See the results at: http://westcoastopen2011.com

Tweet
Five Lakewood Dojo members travelled to Arlington, Texas for the USANKF National Championships from July 14-17, 2011. The results are as follows:

Nico Rose      5 yr. boys beg. Kata-Bronze   Kumite-Silver

Stephanie Hillyer     6 yr. girls nov. Kata-Bronze     Kumite-Bronze

Matthew Hillyer       7 yr. boys int. Kata-Gold    Kumite-Gold                                 Kumite Team-Gold

Zoe Rose     8 yr. girls Beg. Kata-Gold     Kumite-Gold     Weapons-Gold

Gary Rose     45+ mens beg. Kata-Bronze

In addition, Sensei Sweigart coached the USA Grassroots team and helped them to earn more than 12 spots on the junior national team.

Congratulations to all for a great showing.

The Lakewood Dojo sent 13 athletes to the US Open/Junior Olympics that were held at Ceasars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 22-24. The competition was at a very high level with over 2000 competitors from 50 countries attending. We are very proud to say that our team earned 30 medals! Great job! Click here to view results.

Very special thanks to our team sponsors for 2011. Thanks to their help, we have a new warm-up suit and it looks great. Our team will look sharp at upcoming competitions! Thanks also to a very talented artist for providing the calligraphy and art. On the back of the jacket the kanji is: Bushido-the way of the warrior. Her name is Chiyo Sanada. See more of her work at www.chiyosanada.com

The 2011 team sponsors are:

• Rainier Oncology-Official Team Sponsor
• Attagirls Attic www.attagirls-attic.com
• Repair with Care
• Studio 138 www.studio138.net

Sempai Miguel Smith was awarded the prestigeous act six scholarship at an awards ceremony on February 10th at Mt. Tahoma High School. The scholarship was awarded to only 48 high school students from over 65  Schools the around the state. Over 450 students applied.

 A Black Belt at the Lakewood Dojo, Miguel began training when he was only six years old, and attributes much of his earning of this scholarship to the leadership and character development training he receives from Sensei Sweigart.

“Over these last 12 years, Miguel has shown the fine leadership skills that are expected from all Black Belts within the WKA” says Sensei Sweigart. “He is an excellent role model to the younger students and we are very proud of him.”

Miguel will use the scholarship to attend Pacific Lutheran University next year. Congratulations Sempai!

KCPQ 13 did an piece on our Anti-Bullying Camp.  Click on the link for the full story.

http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-072610-bullykarate,0,5718747.story

Congratulations to Matthew Hillyer, Cecelia Lambie, Meg Rainer, Caitlyn Rainer, and Nicholas Boelk.  They competed at the USA National Karate Championships in Greenville, SC, July 9-11, 2010.  They did a great job representing dojo.  We’re very proud of them.

Kata Results
      Cecelia Lambie – Silver               Meg Rainer – Bronze                    Nicholas Boelk – Bronze

Kumite Results
      Matthew Hillyer – Bronze             Meg Rainer – Gold                       Nicholas Boelk – Gold