Nowakowski's ATA Family Martial Arts

This Saturday is an all-area leadership workout at 8 am followed by our black belt testing! Both will be held at Chisholm Trail Middle School. Black Belts who can't make the leadership workout should contact Mr. and Mrs. Nowakowski. There will be no regular classes.

Have a fun and safe Labor Day! There will be no classes Friday, Saturday, or Monday. See you back on Tuesday!

To continue with our travel training series, we have... 100 pushups. 'Nuff said. Get started!

This last weekend Mr. Now and Mr. Orkun traveled to Dallas for Senior Master Sustaire's tourney. With over 1600 competitors, the Allen tournament is one of the biggest in the state! Congratulations to Mr. Orkun for a hard fought 3rd place in sparring. The next tournament is Katy on September 12th and 13th. If you're interested in competing talk to an instructor about going!

Color Belt Testing is this Friday, August 22nd at 6 pm. Parents and family, bring your cameras! This is an opportunity for color belt students to demonstrate what they've learned and test for higher rank in Songahm Taekwondo!

Then, on Saturday, August 23rd, it's tournament time! It's not too late to sign up. We will still have regular classes on Saturday as well.

Paramount Pictures is currently casting for a major motion picture and they want ATA Martial Arts to help them find their lead character!

The project is titled "THE LAST AIRBENDER" and is based on the hit animated Nickelodeon series, 'AVATAR.' The film will be directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

The Ft Worth tournament is next weekend (Aug 22 & 23), not this weekend! Sign up at the front desk!

Leadership Camp starts tomorrow at 8 am!. There will be no noon classes this week. Also, we have our Xtreme Buddy Day on Tuesday during the 5 pm class. Sign your buddy up!

It's the dream of every boy who grew up skinny and nerdy. This is an extension of the old Charles Atlas ads. It goes something like this... Nerdferd Weakling McNerderton gets picked on by Biff Rock McStompanerd. Nerdferd takes a few martial arts lessons. Nerdferd then uses his new-found martial arts skills to avenge his honor by takin' it to Biff.

This is a great way to train on the road or at home. It's called the ladder and it's deceptively effective. Pick a drill, for example pushups. Start with 2, rest for 30 seconds. Then do 4 pushups, and rest for 30 seconds. Keep adding 2 pushups, but stop short of your max. So, if you can do a maximum of 14 pushups at a time, only ladder up to 12. When you get to 12 pushups, start over with 2. Do that cycle 2-3 times. Here's the workout.