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Lots of stuff going on… this sums it up… please read.

>DRESS AND EQUIPMENT
Please make sure all youth students wear their black gi pants and EDS tshirt to class. Adults need to wear their EDS tshirts, as well. We have new ones in stock too – if you need an extra! All students should also bring their equipment every class. If you are missing something, please replace it, as we have a full stock of equipment in. One more note, as the weather improves, we go outside from time to time to train. Please make sure you have the shoes and outerwear to be comfortable.

>FACEBOOK AND VIDOES
If you are not a fan of our Facebook page yet, you’re missing out. I will be sending out a special set of videos just to our Facebook fans very soon. Go to our EliteJKD.com website to find our NEW Facebook page address.

>GROUND FIGHTING TOURNAMENT
On Saturday, May 14th, from 11am-1pm Bloomingdale will be hosting our “Rockford vs. Bloomingdale” EDS Adult Ground Fighting Tournament. This will be a single elimination tournament, where we will separate competitors by level/ability… so everyone can compete. If not, why don’t you come and observe? Great spectator event for kids, parents and adult students/families. Sign up at the school.

>DAYS OFF
Please be aware that EDS will be closed Easter Monday, 4/25 and May 28th-30th for Memorial Day.

>VIRTUAL REVIEW SEMINAR
I will be hosting a live review seminar for youth classes and adults which you can view online! Login to our blog at EliteJKD.com/blog on Wednesday night, June 1st. I’ll do a quick review for young students (5:30pm classes) from 6-6:30pm, Jr. Youth (6:15pm classes) from 6:30-7pm, Adult Beginners from 8:15-9:15pm. I’ll be emailing Intermediate students their review vids, and talk to Advanced students separately for their review! Feel free to invite your friends and family members to hop online to check us out – AND you will be able to ask questions LIVE!

>EVOLUTIONS ARE YOUR TICKET TO CHALLENGING YOURSELF!
All Youth Evolutions will be held on Thursday, June 2nd at regular class times and locations. To make sure there are absolutely NO excuses for adults to test themselves, our Evolutions will now be held at separate locations so you do not have to travel. Bloomingdale’s Adult will be held on Saturday, June 4th and Rockford’s Adult on Saturday, June 11th. Beginners will run from 9-11am, all level previous make ups will happen from 11am-1pm, and current Intermediate/Advanced will go from 1-3pm. All Adults will need to sign up online at EliteJKD.com. If you can’t make your location’s date, please feel free to use the other location’s date. Remember, no excuses.

>FREE MONTH OF TRAINING
If you want a break on your fees… it is really simple. Give a friend, family member or co-worker a free month at EDS. If they sign up after the month, you get to skip the next month of tuition. How cool is that? I am committed to an easy, non-pressure “VIP” treatment of any friend or family member. Schedule a time they can come in and check out a class… if they like it, we can just set up regular days for a FREE month. Only after that, they can decide if they want to continue.

>BIG NEWS COMING
I’ve been hard at work with a major project, and will be releasing some info on it very soon. Believe me, you’ll want to be part of this. Keep in touch – as I’ll be letting current students know first… very exciting stuff!

Lee, Love and Life,

Sifu Matt

ps: Remember the best way to keep up on all of the news is two become fans of our Facebook pages:

Bloomingdale JKD Self-Defense Location
Rockford Location

If you’re a member at our Rockford Martial Arts or Bloomingdale Self-Defense Academies… you’ll be happy to know we have a ton of events we’ll be releasing soon.

This will include female self-defense seminars, boxing seminar, kick boxing seminar, ground fighting tournament, and much more. Plus, I have tons of videos we’ve been making over the last couple months I’ll email out to you.

If you’re not a students of ours, feel free to keep in touch with our Facebook page, and even come in for a free 2 week trial.

Keep in touch!

Lee, Love and Life,

Sifu Matt

As you are in the positions to realign yourself, you then need to breathe (#5) and then visualize. Think about how you want your day to turn out. How you want your next week, next month… and even the year to look.

Picture the kind of body you want, career steps which will open, successful changes you want to make and anything else which will have a positive effect on your life.

Really “feel” the feelings… draw on the emotions of each picture, and make it as detailed as possible. Easy enough right? Spend about 60 seconds doing it at the start… and as you get better at it, increase it to three minutes.

Lee, Love and Life,

Sifu Matt

ps: Did you see all of the JKD Videos on our Facebook pages? If not, you’re missing out!!!

The next step is to breathe.

Yep, breathe. Oxygen is totally under rated, yet it is the one element we need to survive. In simple terms, Oxygen energizes us, heals us and if we go without it for even 3-4 minutes – we’ll have major problems on our hands.

So, as you are realligning yourself, take several deep breaths in, hold it, and exhale. Continue this for 30-60 seconds at a minimum… work up to 2-3 minutes.

I know, easy, right? Then do it.

Lee, Love and Life,

Sifu Matt

ps: Did you check out our Rockford Martial Arts and Bloomingdale Martial Arts Facebook pages yet? We’ve added TONS of new vids!

Continuing the morning workout to get you back on track, wake you up and help you refocus on what you REALLY want in life… Here is step #4 (1-3 are in previous blogs).

Number four kinda has five and six mixed in too… Here is what I mean:

Step number four is to reallign yourself, structurely. Many time we worry so much about building our muscles and loosing our fat, we forget about our structural health.

This awarness all started when I kept on pulling my neck training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at our Chicago (Bloomingdale) location… back in the day when I didn’t have a Rockford Martial Arts School.

I would serious pull my neck about every 2-4 weeks. Couldn’t turn my neck, was in tons of pain… and obviously could’t train very well. Then I ran into this book “Pain Free”, and it taught me all about my structural health. I won’t go into it right now, but it gave me a big education in how rough and out of line my spine and other “bone” structures were.

I was taught some very simple exercises which help you realign yourself. It takes minutes a day, and cuts down on so many pain centers in the body. I’ll make a quick video on some of these simple exercises, so stay tuned.

Lee, Love and Life,

Sifu Matt

ps: Did you check out my program which teaches you 10 simple self-defense moves? Great for anyone in your life, too lazy to get into the school Go to www.InstaSelfDefense.com for more info!

If you missed the live feed from our Evolutions this last week… sorry to say… you missed out. I’ve gotten so much positive feedback from the experience, I’m now working hard in finding out how we can expand this experience.

As a result, we’ll postpone the regular Tuesday morning video blogs for a while, as I’ll be testing out and trying different methods. Here is a great email I got from one of our adult students, regarding the LIVE broadcast:

“Matt,

I know you are busy so I don’t want to take up your time, but I thought Sat live feed of the graduation was awesome! My wife and two girls were able to watch from home which they thought was cool to see dad on the computer getting an award. They have a better understanding of what it means when dad has to leave the house to go to his “special training” during the week. Being a parent yourself with the time demands of today’s world, I am sure you can appreciate what that means. Thanks again Matt! Have a good day.”

Talk to you soon -

Lee, Love and Life,

Sifu

We’ll stream the graduations from our Intermediate and Advanced Evolutions (Graduations) at 10:45am CT and from our Beginners at 2:45pm CT.

I might attempt to get the feed going a couple minutes before these times.

Just push play below, you’ll see a quick commercial, and then see the live broadcast at the times above. If you have any troubles, just click refresh.

Lee, Love and Life,

Sifu Matt

Sorry – we were very busy at the school last night. We’re doing the video test tonight from 7-9pm… hope you join us!

Lee, Love and Life,

Sifu Matt

(Just push play below, you’ll see a quick commercial, and then see the live broadcast at the times above. If you have any troubles, just click refresh.)

No video blog today, as we’ll be broadcasting live from our Evolutions this Thursday night and Saturday, highlighting our Evolutions (graduations)!

Can’t tell you how exciting this is! We’ll be testing out the video blog at our school tonight around 7-9pm. You’ll be able to see the classes LIVE!

Then, come back on Thursday night (youth, 5:30pm-7pm) and Saturday at 10:45am (adult Intermediate/Advanced) and 2:45pm (adult Beginners) to see the graduation part of the Evolution! How cool is that!

See you soon!

Lee, Love and Life,

Sifu Matt

Whether you are a student, past student, parent of a student, or someone who stumbled upon this blog – welcome!

If you are not a student yet, and want to check out our program. It is really easy, just call me at toll free 1-877-337-1877. I’ll answer all of your questions.

If you are a student, you’ll want to plan for the Evolutions this upcoming week. We’ll be handling all of the kids on Thursday, 3/3 at their regular class times and locations. Easy enough right?

For adults, there is nothing better than training with those who you usually don’t train with. Therefore, we’ll all meet up at our Rockford location on Saturday, March 5th. Intermediates and Advanced go from 9-11am, while Beginners will have their time from 1-3pm.

Youth students do not need to register, but adults do at www.SelfDefenseCalendar.com. I cannot and will not take registrations at the door. From today, you have several days to register, and overcome any obstacles you come in contact with.

Two other quick things. I made you a quick video of this and next week’s events, see it on the new Facebook pages we made. Click on your location and become a fan. You’ll then be plugged into the latest news, vids and pics from classes and events. Once again, easy enough.

Bloomingdale Self-Defense School
Rockford Martial Arts School

I’ll be talking tomorrow on this blog about WHY we do Evolutions, and what they exactly are. Please click on the “RSS” feed in the upper left hand corner to keep in touch… you’ll forget to check in if you don’t and lose out on important info.

Lee, Love and Life,

Sifu Matt

ps: Please note, I’ll be holding off on the Tuesday LIVE video blog feed today, as I want everyone to really get down this info which I’ll be talking about throughout this week!