Dojo Open Saturday, January 21

We will be back on our regular class schedule.

Tacoma Sports and Fitness Fest

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

Lakewood Dojo Earns 92 Medals At West Coast Open

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

New National Champions


Five Lakewood Dojo members travelled to Arlington, Texas for the USANKF National Championships from July 14-17, 2011. The results are as follows:nationals2011pic

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.




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Lakewood Dojo Earns 30 Medals at the US Open/Junior Olympics

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.



Competition Team Sponsors

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

warm up 008The 2011 team sponsors are:

Lakewood Dojo Impressive at The Northwest Classic

The Lakewood Dojo had 30 students attend the Northwest Classic Karate Championships that were held in Gresham, Oregon on Sunday, March 13th. We are very proud of each and every one of them as they earned 40 medals! A very impressive result. Please visit our tournament section for more detailed information.

Miguel Smith Awarded Act Six Scholarship

Miguel SmithSempai 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!

Anti-Bullying Camp Airs on KCPQ 13

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

Lakewood Dojo Students Compete at the USA National Karate Championships

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