Possible seminar with Grandmaster Tom Muncy 10th Dan DSI early in November (Host Master McCann)
we are doing a new design. White T-shirts and vests with full colour DBBAI badge front and back. If you want one please email me ASAP cost £10.
Yoga now on Wednesdays 7.30pm - 8.30pm Yaxley public hall
1/ Tang Soo Do "BOOT CAMP" 2003 We have an intense training weekend for all Tang Soo Do students.
13th and 14th of September in Forres Scotland. Students will be able to test for their next rank at the end of the two day course.
Subject will include:-
Weapons all levels
Forms all levels
Self-defence
Yoga for flexibility
Cardio Kickboxing
Empty hand and weapon one step techniques
Breaking techniques
Sparring Techniques
Drum training
Meditation (Because you will need it! LOL)
Master's Demonstrations (Knockouts etc.)
Book a flight now and you could fly up to Inverness for around £75, and its only a one hour trip. Book your place at the first Dragon Academy Boot Camp NOW!
Email Michelle De-Vry
michelle_devry@hotmail.com
http://easyjet.com/en/book/index.asp For your cheap flight.
2/ Tang Soo Do Master Class (For all mature TSD Students, coloured belts included)
Its not a "Master's class" its a "Master Class" (The Master's class is down the pub)
Feedback from 26th July:-
Dear Master Adlington
Also wanted to say - the master class was fab - I did think I would feel a little out of my depth especially when I've never seen so many masters and black belts in the same room at one time - however, everyone helped each other I had a great time and I went away with even more renewed enthusiasm for Tang soo do - so much in fact I think I've finally convinced my husband to join!! an even bigger miracle than knocking a man out without touching him although ill be working on that one.
Many thanks for a very interesting and educational seminar - with the bo staff form, rather than twirling a stick parrot fashion I now know some of the possible applications for each 'wee twirl'..... If only I could remember the form but excellent teaching non the less.
Regards
Sal Dawes
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Next Master Class:-
"Booked" 21st September 11.30am - 3.30pm (Anyone staying over from the championships can stay at my house)
Cost £12 (Championships competitors £10)
Subjects:-
Chil Sang forms 1 - 5 with Master Woodiwiss and Master O'Toole
Higher Master's forms
Bong forms 1 -2 with Master Adlington (Plus applications)
Rooting and up rooting
Pressure Points (Demonstration of no touch KO)
Yoga stretching techniques (To fix those lower backs and tight hamstrings)
Master De-Vry will try to pop down from Scotland to teach anything from child development through the martial arts to The Royal Air Force official Kickboxing syllabus.
Any other Masters to teach?
Please let me know if you are attending ASAP
3/ Feedback from the "Moon's Phases"
Fire officer Robert Allport has found that major fires occur around a full moon.
Master McCann as a school teacher found that disruptive children are worse during a full moon.
Tina Sales says she is normally worse with her RSD illness during a full moon.
4/ Musical training "improves verbal memory"
Children who learn to play a musical instrument are significantly better at remembering words than those who have no musical training, according to Chinese research.
The scientists, from the Chinese University in Hong Kong, also found that the longer a person had trained at music, the better their ability to memorise words, or "verbal memory".
The researchers looked at 90 boys aged between 6 and 15, half of whom had musical training and half who did not. Those with training were members of their school's string orchestra programme and had experience of playing western instruments.
The children were asked to recall words from a list in order to assess their verbal memory.
Those with musical training recalled significantly more words than the untrained students. They also learned more words with each subsequent trial and could remember more words after 30-minute delays. In addition, the boys who had been studying music the longest recalled the most words.
The researchers suggest that musical training "is like cross training for the brain" - it stimulates the left side of the brain, thus improving other skills, such as verbal learning, associated with that region.
A year after the initial study, the scientists carried out more tests and included a third group of children who had only started musical training after the first study was carried out. Although these beginners had started off showing significantly lower verbal memory than the more experienced boys, by the end of one year they showed significant improvements in verbal learning.
In contrast, boys who had dropped out of musical training did not improve any further, although they retained the verbal memory they had initially acquired.
The authors said, "The [current] findings suggest that specific experience might affect the development of memory in accordance with the localisation of brain functions... Experience might affect the development of cognitive functions in a systematic fashion."
They hope that this finding will "stimulate further investigation into ways to enhance human brain functioning and to develop a blueprint for cognitive rehabilitation, such as using music training to enhance verbal memory".
5/ Subtle energy research.
a/ Modern EMF effects on Reiki symbols
b/ Hand positions and shape for strength and breaking techniques
c/ Distance KOs
d/ Modern EMF effects on breathing techniques
6/ Thought for the day
Rest Easy
Rest does not come with sleeping, it comes with waking. This is both an insight and an action of enlightenment. When we are enlightened we realise that real rest is possible only when we become free of illusion and we no longer struggle against life.
Illusion is the idea that people should be, and do, what we want them to. The truth is, all is as it should be, despite appearances, or our perceptions of others to the contrary. This means you can be easy on yourself, easy with others and easy with the world around you. Easiness is a virtue, an attractive one at that. It is much more influential than force. So quit forcing, end the struggling and...relax!
7/ Dates for 2003
September 9th instructors AMA insurance renewal
September 11th Aberdeen seminar 6pm - 9pm
September 13th & 14th Scotland Boot camp
September 20th Master Adlington's Championships
September 21st Master Class 11.30am - 3.30pm
September 28th London colour belt test & seminar
October 11th Bristol championships
Oct 19th Yoga stretch seminar Huntingdon LA fitness centre 4pm-5pm
October 25th Scotland Championships
November 2nd Colour belt test Sawtry 2pm-3.30pm
November 9th Black belt test 2pm
December 7th Scotland Ki Do Seminar (Christmas party?)
December 14th London colour belt test &seminar
December 21st last class Sawtry
8/ Mozart Beyond the Grave
When Mozart passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Mozart was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the town magistrate to come and listen to it.
When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said, "Ah, yes, that's Mozart's Ninth Symphony, being played backwards."
He listened a while longer, and said, "There's the Eighth Symphony, and it's backwards, too. Most puzzling." So the magistrate kept listening; "There's the Seventh... the Sixth... the Fifth..."
Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate; he stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery, "My fellow citizens, there's nothing to worry about. It's just Mozart decomposing."
9/ Music therapy hits right note with cancer patients.
Patients who have undergone bone-marrow transplants report less pain and nausea if they take part in music therapy, according to US researchers.
The therapy may also actually speed up the time it takes for the new marrow to start producing blood cells, say the scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center.
The team looked at 42 patients, aged between 5 and 65, who were being treated for various types of cancer, including leukaemias, lymphomas and solid tumours. Half the patients received music therapy after their transplants and the rest received standard follow-up care.
The music patients met twice a week and could listen to music of their choice, play themselves, write songs or simply talk about music they liked. During the sessions the patients were also encouraged to visualise a peaceful or joyful setting.
The study revealed that patients who took part in the music therapy sessions reported significantly less pain and nausea. Before the sessions, they rated their pain and nausea as "severe", but after the sessions only "moderate".
In addition, the new bone marrow was slower to take hold in patients who did not have music sessions - an average of 15.5 days compared to 13.5 days. The speed with which the patients begin producing their own white blood cells is crucial because they are vulnerable to infection.
Music is already used in some medical settings, such as mental health services and hospices for terminally ill patients, to decrease patients' perceptions of pain and depression, and boost feelings of relaxation.
However, it is not commonly used with bone marrow patients and initially staff members turned the therapists away saying the patients were too ill.
Researcher Dr OJ Sahler said, "It's taken a while for staff members to recognise that music therapy can be very helpful to people when they feel most distressed.
"Nurses and doctors originally thought that the patient had to be playing or singing along, but passive listening or simply the presence of the therapist providing music itself can be therapeutic," she said.
Her colleague Dr Bryan Hunter, an associate professor of music, added, "When a programme like this is first introduced, typically we get mixed reactions. Some in the healthcare field are sceptical at first.
"But when they see the positive effects on patients, they usually change their mind," he said.
10/ WHAT A TRIP
As you know the South African enjoy travelling when we can afford to travel and the trip to England was great.
The tournament, although it did have some hick ups was enjoyed by all and we want to thank everyone involved with the arrangements.
After the tournament some of my students and myself toured Scotland and Ireland - both countries are beautiful and the people very friendly, I also had the opportunity of teaching the Tonfa seminar in Alness which was great and the Saturday night we had a quit meal with Master Jan De Vry - thank you for making the time to be with us Master Jan.
The group that was touring with me then returned to South Africa on the Sunday and I went to Sawtry to train with Master Mark Adlington. What a week - we enjoyed the seminars tremendously, and due to the talent that I saw in the Yoga class I have decided to start a Yoga class in SA as it really creates positive energy being around nice people. (Enough on that one before I get into trouble).
During my stay Master mark and I broke everything we could using wave forms, we did seminars using pressure point knock - outs, which everyone enjoyed and then after Masters Marks deciphering of the energy used, we attempted the no touch knock - out, which both of us succeeded in - What a blast even the people at the Master seminar on the Saturday seemed quit amazed that this could actually happen.
Thank you very much for a wonderful time and I know that if people are really interested in learning true martial arts it is available and not just something people talk about - Keep up the good work - Master Eddie Jacobsen (7th Dan).