Lakewood Dojo will once again be presenting its highly acclaimed series of day camps. This year’s camp will focus on self-defense techniques and strategies. Campers will learn highly effective skills to prevent and overcome physical, verbal and emotional bullying. Campers will also experience lots of fun activities including touch kumite, fun and games, parks, movies, barbecue, and much, much more.
Session 1: Monday, June 18th – Friday, June 22nd
Session 2: Monday, June 25th – Friday, June 29th
Fun Camp*: Monday, July 9th – Friday, July 13th
Session 3: Monday, July 16th – Friday, July 20th
Times: 9am – 3:30 pm
For more information please contact us at 253-589-6924.
*Fun Camp – This camp will focus on fun summer activities like field trips, arts and crafts, etc. We will not be covering any anti-bullying or karate topics.
Congratulations to all the Lakewood Dojo students who competed in this year’s Junior Olympics and US Open in Las Vegas.
With the generosity of our local Avon representative, our booster club will receive 40% of sales generated from the “Lakewood Ninjas” fundraiser campaign! Click on the picture above to be directed to our campaign. Avon is a well known brand, and there is something for everybody. Please help support our athletes! And thank you Rose Vlad Godinez for your support and generosity!
Check out these great videos from the West Coast Open 2011 posted in the Video Gallery
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The West Coast Open was a huge success! The Lakewood Dojo earned an impressive 92 medals. See the results at: http://westcoastopen2011.com
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:
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.
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!
