Six-week Summer Shape-up starts June 17

Fitness enthusiasts, novices and weekend warriors! It’s getting HOT outside so join us for a fantastic indoor fitness series; Six-week Summer Shape-up! Stay fit and healthy during the summer months. Change your body & mind in just six-weeks. Join us a for a unique, combined stretch, strength & weight loss series.

June 17 - July 26; M-F; 6:30-7:30pm

$54/session (example: Weds only). $9/class
$96/two sessions (example: Mon & Thurs). $8/class
$126/three sessions (example: Mon, Wed, Fri). $7/class
$144/four sessions (example: Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri). $6/class
$150/five sessions (example: All five days). $5/class
 
NOTE – If you are a current punch card holder, we will apply your remaining balance to a series of your choice.

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/122498077955348/
 
Register now! info@peacefulwarriorphx.com or 480-330-2066

Practical Self Defense from the Ground

Specialty Class for all ages every Sat at 10:35am. Each month we focus on a different aspect of the martial arts.

June: Practical Self Defense from the Ground

Friday, July 13th from 7-11pm
Parents Night Out
Ages 6 and up
Drop the kids off for a fun-filled evening of games, pizza and more!
$20

Saturday, August 11th from 12-3pm
2nd Annual Inner Dojo Tournament
Ages 5 to 15 
The competition includes Kata, Sparring and Jujitsu. This is a great opportunity to test your skills in a comfortable environment with friends. Sign up at the dojo.  
FREE

Thursday, August 16th from 5:30-8:30pm
Girls Attack Back (GAB)
Ages 10 and up
Learn to be your first line of self-defense in this empowering session.
$30, second person 1/2 off

Saturday, August 25th from 9am-12pm
Open Sparring - Summer Summit
Ages 13 and up
All styles, all skill levels!
$10 mat fee

20 Worst Drinks in America

Think your 'healthy' drink is really good for you? Think again...

20. Worst Water: Snapple Agave Melon Antioxidant Water (1 bottle, 20 fl oz)

150 calories, 0 g fat, 33 g sugars

Sugar Equivalent: 2 Good Humor Chocolate Éclair Bars

While "Worst Water" may sound like an oxymoron, the devious minds in the bottled beverage industry have even found a way to besmirch the sterling reputation of the world's most essential compound. Sure, you may get a few extra vitamins, but ultimately, you're paying a premium price for gussied-up sugar water. Next time you buy a bottle of water, check the recipe: You want two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, and very little else.

Drink This Instead!

Smartwater

0 calories , 0 g sugars

19. Worst Bottled Tea: SoBe Green Tea (1 bottle, 20 fl oz)

 240 calories, 0 g fat, 61 g sugars

Sugar Equivalent: 4 slices Sara Lee Cherry Pie

Leave it to SoBe to take an otherwise healthy bottle of tea and inject it with enough sugar to turn it into dessert. The Pepsi-owned company's flagship line, composed of 11 flavors with names like "Nirvana" and "Cranberry Grapefruit Elixir," is marketed to give consumers the impression that it can cleanse the body, mind, and spirit. Don't be fooled. Just like this bottle of green tea, all of these beverages are made with two primary ingredients: water and sugar.

Drink This Instead!

Honest Tea Green Dragon Tea (1 bottle, 16 fl oz)

60 calories, 0 g fat, 16 g sugars

See the rest of the list here.

What would you do if...

Join us for this empowering session and pass along to all the women you love.

Thursday, May 10
5:30-8:30pm

Be your first line of self-defense!
Learn to:
•carry yourself confidently
•use everyday items as weapons
•defend against multiple attacks and holds
•use your powerful voice
•gain control ASAP

A perfect Mother's Day gift!

Calling all moms, daughters, aunts, sisters, grandmas ages 10 to adult. Just $30, second person 1/2 price (cash or check only). 6451 E Shea Blvd, Scottsdale. call 480-200-1187.

Watch our TV segment on Sonoran Living:
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/lifestyle/sonoran_living/mother--daughter-self-defense-workshop

Hope to see you there!

Karate Tournament Team Excels at Nationals!

Eleven competitors from Peaceful Warrior Martial Arts attended the USKA Nationals Tournament March 30th and 31st in Albuquerque, NM. For five of the competitors, this was their very first Nationals Tournament, and most of them just started competing this point year! Our seasoned competitors did a great job as well.

The Nationals Tournament hosts the "best-of-the best"of USKA competitors across the country. In order to compete in this tournament, competitors must first qualify at the State or Regional Tournament, or by placing at Nationals the year prior. Since every single one of the Peaceful Warrior competitors placed (unheard of, by the way!!) they are all automatically qualified for next year's Nationals.

Here are the results:
Aditya Gunderia: 1st Weapons, 2nd Sparring, 2nd Team Kata, 3rd Kata
Allen Kratzer: 2nd Kata, 2nd Koshiki, 3rd Weapons, 3rd Sparring, 4th Musical Kata
Brent Armistead: 1st Sparring, First Koshiki, 1st Chanbara, 2nd Kata, 2nd Weapons, 2nd Team Kata
Cameron Kessner: 4th Kata
Chance Glover: 2nd Musical Kata, 2nd Team Sparring, 4th Sparring
Jasper Brown: 4th Kata
Julianna Chin-Tung: 3rd Sparring
Mackenzie Bouise: 2nd Kata, 2nd Weapons, 4th Chanbara
Max Bouise: 1st Team Sparring, 2nd Chanbara, 4th Weapons
Rachel Hostletler: 1st Sparring, 2nd Team Kata, 4th Kata
Sensei Poage: 1st Sparring, 1st Kata, 1st Weapons

Girls Attack Back Women & Self-Defense Seminar

Our next GAB (Girls Attack Back) Seminar is Thursday, May 10 from 5:30 - 8:30pm.

Be your first line of self-defense! Join us for this empowering session.

Learn to:
carry yourself confidently
use everyday items as weapons
defend against multiple attacks and holds
use your powerful voice
gain control ASAP

Calling all moms, daughters, aunts, sisters, grandmas ages 10+. Just $30! You may also use your fitness class punch card for this.

Email us to sign up for this session. A perfect Mother's Day gift!

The Effectiveness of the Martial Arts: Peaceful Warrior Martial Arts and Healing Center

The Effectiveness of the Martial Arts: Peaceful Warrior Martial Arts and Healing Center: This monday I was able to visit the Peaceful Warrior Martial Arts and Healing center. They teach Shorin Ryu, a style of Karate originating f...

Mark your calendars for Sensei Bethea's annual Midwest-Okinawa Connection Camp. This fun-filled weekend of martial arts training will be held May 18 - 20 in Indianapolis, IN.

Guest Instructors include great martial artists like Sensei Doug Perry, Tachi Troy Price, Renshi Dan McCaslin, Renshi Rodney Cheeseman, Kyoshi Eberhard Welch, Kyoshi Stolsmark, Kyoshi Tom Ward, Kyoshi Arnold Mitchell, Kyoshi Eddie Bethea and our very own Sensei Poage!

Spring Gathering Open Sparring Throwdown

Peaceful Warrior will host its first Open Sparring event on Saturday, March 24 from 10am-1pm. All styles are welcome to come spar in various modalities like MMA, point, grappling and more. Ages Teen and up are welcome.

Become a Karate Kid this Summer

Spring Break Camp is in full swing and that means Summer Camp is just around the corner!

Summer Camp will run in one-week sessions from March 28 - August 3

8:00am-6:00pm
Limited to 40 Campers/week so sign up ASAP!

Campers will:

• Participate in 3+ martial arts classes each day
  
  


• Enjoy games, activities and fun




• Attend an exciting field trip each week




• Spend time playing outdoors




• All in a safe and enriching environment!

Email us to sign up. We hope to see you this Summer for tons of fun!

Journey with a Master

We are honored to have Hanshi Doug Perry with us this month for a special seminar. Hanshi Perry is the highest-ranking non-Okinawan Shorin-Ryu practitioner in the U.S. and is the head of the Shorinkan for North America.

Hanshi Perry will be at Peaceful Warrior on Thursday, March 15 for a special class just for us from 6:30-8:00pm!

He will also host a 3-hour seminar on Saturday, March 17 from 2:00-5:00pm at Peaceful Warrior. We look forward to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with one of the greatest martial arts practitioners in our style.

Peaceful Warriors Martial Arts Camp @Scottsdalkarate

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Had a blast with Cory today from Fox 10. Thanks for coming out!!

Spring Break & Summer Karate Camps are just around the corner!

Spring Break Camps

March 5-9 Scottsdale, AZ

March 19-23 Paradise Valley, AZ

8:00am-6:00pm

Limited to 20 Campers and spots fill up FAST!

$159/week

Summer Break Camps

Starting May 28 through August 3

8:00am-6:00pm

Limited to 40 Campers and spots fill up FAST!

$159/week

Campers will:

•Participate in 3+ martial arts classes each day

•Enjoy games, activities and fun

•Attend an exciting field trip each week

•Participate in leadership and team-building activities

•All in a safe and enriching environment!

Kids learn new skills, make new friends and have hours of fun in a safe and controlled environment. Karate Camps are a great way for a beginning child to build basic martial arts skills or for the experienced martial artist to better their skills.

Karate all day? No way! At our Camps, kids enjoy three formal martial arts classes per day in traditional Shorin-Ryu Karate and Jujitsu. They also participate in weekly field trips, team-building games and activities, arts & crafts, outdoor recreation and more. It’s a new day, everyday!

Camp participants gain life-skills like problem solving, conflict resolution, respect, discipline and confidence. Hours of fun are spent challenging kids both mentally and physically.

Field Trips include:

Phoenix Zoo

Ice Skating

Theatre

Japanese Friendship Gardens

Gold Mining

Yoga & Art

Rock Climbing

Science Experiments

Sporting Events

Sign up today at info@peacefulwarriorphx.com

Scottsdale karate school shows off at qualifying

Peaceful Warrior Martial Arts, our Scottsdale karate school sent 13 kids to a recent qualifying tournament and amazingly all 13 qualified for the United States Karate Association National Tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico! ABC 15 did a great feature on their story.

Peaceful Warrior Demo Team performs!

Join us for Fit City Scottsdale February 18 from 8 am-1 pm at Scottsdale Community College. Our PW Demo team will perform!

Scary Statistics and Safe Dating Tips

While Valentines day is a day of romance, for those looking for love the dating world can be a scary place.

The continued increase in social media and online dating services leaves women vulnerable to dating violence.

Check out these staggering stats:

• Seventy-seven (77)% of completed rapes are committed by non-strangers (Bureau of Justice Statistics). A woman is four times more likely to be date raped than by a stranger (Illinois Coaliltion Against Sexual Assault).





• Date rape is rarely reported to police. Less than 2% of acquaintance rape victims reported the assault whereas 21% of women raped by strangers reported the crime to police (Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault)





• Every year, an estimated one woman in eight in college is raped and in 85% of those assaults the women knew their attacker (Texas Woman's University)

Women and girls of all ages are taking back their power by attending a new female focused self defense class in Scottsdale. Girls Attack Back (GAB) is designed not only to teach self defense but also to unite women and girls of all walks of life. Women don't have to be victims, because women who have even the most basic self-defense skills are less likely to become a target of crime. GAB participants learn simple techniques to help protect themselves. Including using weapons most women have on them, but don't even realize it (keys, rings, purses, lip gloss).

The F.B.I., National Victim Center and Crime Victim Research Treatment Center have reported shocking statistics:

• More than 2 1/2 million women in the US experience violence each year





• Only 16% of rapes are ever reported to police





• One out of seven women will be assaulted by their husbands





• One in four college women have either been assaulted or have suffered attempted rape





• In a survey of college women, 38% reported sexual victimization yet only one out of every 25 reported their assault to police - 78% knew their attackers





• The United States has the highest rape rate of the countries that report such statistics - four times higher than Germany, 13 times higher than England and 20 times higher than Japan.
  

Karate Spring Break Camps in Scottsdale and Paradise Valley

Spring Break is just around the corner. Sign up now for Camp!

Spring Break Session 1:
March 5 - 9

Spring Break Session 2:
March 19-23

8:00am-6:00pm
Limited to 20 Campers/week so sign up ASAP!

Campers will:
Participate in 3+ martial arts classes each day
Enjoy games, activities and fun
Attend an exciting field trip
Spend time playing outdoors
All in a safe and enriching environment!

Don't get stuck doing the same tournament circuit!

Mark your calendars for these upcoming local martial arts tournaments/events:

Grand Canyon State Games - February 25th
AZ International Open, Jiu-Jitsu - March 3rd & 4th
ASKA Tournament - March 10th
Arizona Karate Championship, USANKF - March 17th

Remember, don't get stuck by attending to the same tournament circuit all the time. You can't challenge yourself that way! Try different circuits and different competitors. You'll be amazed at what you can do!

Heading to Nationals!

Congrats to everyone who qualified to go to the USKA Nationals Tournament in Albuquerque, NM at the end of March!

What an accomplishment! Everyone who attended the State Tournament placed and qualified. We are so proud of each and every one of you.

We have 14 competitors going this year! Good luck to all.