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5/30/2008 Summer Specials start June 1st, Call or email for details.
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5/15/2008 I spoke with Steve from Downriver Photography last night and he has begun scheduling for "Picture day at the Dojo" so check back often and we'll try to keep you up to date on when we're going to be scheduled.
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5/15/2008 Kellie has been to the dojo several times now and is getting better and stronger every day.......WELCOME BACK KELLIE!
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5/8/2008 Kellie was released from
the hospital Tuesday afternoon, So she's home where she belongs. Roy told
us that she may come to the dojo for a visit tonight or Friday.
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5/8/2008 Visitor of the month
update. It's looking like our AOL viewer from the Eastpointe MI. area is
in the lead so far. I'll post the viewers initials only at the end of the
month.
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5/5/2008 We went and saw Kellie
yesterday in ICU. She looks great and should be released from the hospital
on Tuesday :-)
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5/1/2008 A brief update on Kellie.
As you know, last Friday, Roy had to take Kellie in to the emergency room.
I will not go into all of the details on here but I will say that her open
heart surgery went really well and as of 5:30 today she's doing great. If
you have questions or comments...Send them to me in any form you'd like
and I'll get them routed to Roy for you!
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4/28/2008 Congratulations to AJ,
Miranda, Shawn, Lucus, & Johnny for jobs well done at the Michael
Valente' Memorial
tournament! As a note I was approached several times by parents of other
competitors and told that they were the most pleasant, polite and positive
students they've ever seen at a tournament! I also know that AJ and his
dad were approached with the same accolades as well........I feel like a
broken record but, You guys always make us proud!
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4/22/2008 We are in the process of setting up a "Web visitor of the Month" program, Stay tuned for more info.
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4/21/2008 The Battle at the 45th Parallel was last weekend. Our school did extremely well once again and it's always great to see them win with honor and not with arrogance! You guys always make us proud!
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4/17/2008 The custom RekSuits made with our school colors are in, Watch for us on the front page of the official RekSuits website!
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4/10/2008 The Cardio Karate classes have begun and are now on the schedule! They have started out doing very well and we already have a good routine down. We'll continually tailor the class to keep it fresh and fun. If you have questions or comments please call or email us and we'll be happy to answer anything we can.
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4/2/2008 We are starting a
Cardio-Karate class! These classes will incorporate Karate, Boxing and Aerobics.
It will be fast paced, fun and worth the effort! Watch the schedule page
for class times!
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3/31/2008 Congratulations to Kenny Shock for setting up and running his own karate program!
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3/24/2008 The demonstration team performance routine is well under way and regular scheduled practices will begin early next month. I will be posting the logo's on here soon for voting purposes.
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3/13/2008 I've started the framework for the demonstration team's website. You can check it out here: http://www.maisonmartialarts.com/Team-MMA
This site will be moved and renamed as soon as the voting is done :-)
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3/8/2008 Maison Martial Arts is proud to present our DEMONSTRATION TEAM!
We are starting a special team to put on martial arts demonstrations.
Watch here for a link to the new website dedicated to the team! For now
here's a little bit about the team; It's open to any and all students
that are willing to put in the time and effort to learn new
things....that's right, it doesn't matter what age or rank you are! The
demonstration team will be led by Sensei Maison and Sensei Fleming.
Both leaders have experience with demonstration teams and this should
be both fun and exciting. All students wishing to participate on the
team have been asked to create a team logo for the uniforms and
t-shirts, along with the team logo they've been asked for suggestions
for a team name! More to come :-)
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1/29/2008 Well, it seems that I have been neglecting to keep this up to
date so I'll try to catch up with everything that's been going on for the last
couple of months (Not necessarily in order).
Visitors and the like: As you know we have recently had several visitors to the
dojo, most of which are just students from other schools "shopping
around". I know that when things like this happen some of you get confused
about what's going on and I'm telling you, don't worry about it, just leave it
to us and we'll make sure that it doesn't effect your training. Actually you
should think of it as flattering that they would be seeking out our school
:-)
Testing's: (AJ, Miranda, Lucus, Kayla, Shawn & William) were awesome to say the least. It
always makes me proud to watch them test and perform at such a high level, So
Way to go guys (and girls)!
RekSuits: The RekSuits part of our dojo is starting to go well and for those of
you who didn't know it has expanded to include the very popular "Flip Your
Lid Wear" so watch our RekSuits online store for the new products.
Adam's Tournament: The first annual D-Lux Charity Challenge was a huge success!
Our dojo had a great presence at the tournament and everyone's performance was
top notch. It was fun to watch for the first time Sensei John Fleming perform,
and perform well! It was also good to see Sensei Maison compete in sparring
after 4+ years of not doing so. I'd like to put all of the awards that were
achieved by our students from this tournament here but frankly I don't remember
all of them so I don't want to miss someone.
Virtual Tournament: Most of you are aware that our students competed in the
first ever "Virtual" Tournament. We video taped the students doing
their current kata and posted them for judging, We ended up with 3 first places
and swept the women's divisions. Again, you students make us extremely proud.
And last but not least I'd like to welcome all of our new students! Some of you
are new to martial arts and some of you are seasoned veteran's.....Welcome!
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11/5/2007 Maison Martial Arts is proud to announce that we are the new distributor for RekSuits sports martial arts uniforms for the state of Michigan. You can look at our "work in progress" online catalog here.....
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11/5/2007 Sensei Maison has achieved a big #1 in the state for traditional weapons again this year in the MSKC tournament circuit!
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11/5/2007 Well, we're way behind in news updates so I'll try to put them all together here. We had a really nice photo day at the dojo and all of the pictures came out awesome so, a big thanks to Steve from Downriver Photography for that! The last couple of tournaments went pretty well for our students as well. We've had a few pre-tests and a few tests since my last update so congrats to all of those who have successfully passed their rank exams! On another note Gary is teaching more and more, He's doing great at it too! Michael is currently assisting with the novice / intermediate class and he is doing great as well (It's great to see Michael at the dojo once again!) I would also like to thank Sensei John Fleming for all of his help too. For those of you who don't know Sensei Fleming is now teaching a high rank class on Wednesday evenings. His class is a whole different style of karate and it's always fun to learn new things! (Watch for his profile on the Instructors page)
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8/27/2007 The Renaissance Open Karate Tournament was last weekend as well as a TKD tournament Congratulations to AJ, Johnny & Lucus for a job well done! AJ Thompson placed 3rd in open weapons and Johnny placed 4th in open hand at the Renaissance Open and Lucas Placed first in open hand and first in point sparring. Awesome job guys!
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8/21/2007 Steve Mills from Downriver Photography will be taking photo's at the dojo! The tentative date is set for Wednesday September 12th so stay tuned for more info. Photo package pricing and information is available at the dojo.
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7/29/2007 Maison Martial Arts may be expanding
it's Dojo! We have been offered another 800 square feet (the adjoining unit) for
a great monthly rate so we may be going to expand! Please pardon our dust as we take
down the wall and double your training floor.
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7/28/2007 Master Jabari's tournament was last weekend and all of our competitors did well, Way to go folks. As always our students take victory and defeat like true martial artists. And We'd like to send a special thanks to Master Jabari for all of his kind words to our students!
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5/25/2007 For those of you that have asked about Michael, I talked to his mom via email and she said that they're doing well. She also said that they will stop by for a visit soon and she's trying to work out arrangements to get Michael to the dojo for the 6:00 class so that he can help out with the class. We all hope to see him back at the dojo real soon!
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5/25/2007 Testing day! Congratulations to Cindy, Johnny, Kayla and Noah on a job well done :-)
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5/21/2007 The Michael Valente' Memorial
tournament was last weekend and we had 3 competitors entered. Johnny placed
first in open hand and third in sparring, Kayla placed third in open hand and
3rd in sparring, and Shawn placed first in open hand. AWESOME JOB!!!! Also
Johnny placed third in overall points!
We couldn't ask for better and we're all really proud of these competitors. This
was the first competition for both Johnny and Kayla so that makes it even more
special, Again Great Job Kids!
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4/20/2007 Testing day! Congratulations Shawn! Excellent job.
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4/16/2007 The Battle at the 45th parallel was
last weekend and our competitors did great, and we all had a good time camping
as well. A little snow and cold weather didn't stop the fun!
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4/4/2007 Advanced Testing! Awesome job Michael and congratulations on earning your 3rd Gup Brown Belt.
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3/26/2007 The Second MSKC tournament was this past weekend and every one of our competitors placed! 2 of them placed in all 3 events that they entered! Great Job Guys!
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2/24/2007 The first tournament of the season for the MSKC was today. We had 5 competitors and 4 of them placed! Great job guys!
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2/23/2002 Testing! Congratulations to all who tested!
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2/19/2007 Gary's Black Belt testing was this past weekend. Gary did awesome! I'll be posting pictures soon (there's a video available also). I would like to thank the blackbelts who were kind enough to take the time to be on our testing panel, and I would also like to thank all of the people who came out to support Gary and make his big day special! It was a big crowd and probably a bit uncomfortable for some people but it was definitely worth it :-)
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2/16/2007 Testing! Congratulations to all who tested!
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1/31/2007 Bojutsu testing day! Congratulations guys for a job well done!
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1/22/2007 Gary's Black Belt pre-test was this past Saturday. Gary did very well. It was a long afternoon for him and he was really tired when it was over but he came through it with good marks and a new appreciation for all of his hard work. Great job Gary! There's only a few weeks before the BIG day :-) stay tuned!
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1/9/2007 Well the schedule is set for Gary Foote's Black Belt testing! His testing will be on Saturday February 17th and will finish up on Sunday February 18th. The reasoning for the two day testing is so that his grandparents don't have to sit at the dojo for the long hours of the test on Saturday. It'll be an extremely hard test but Gary's up to the task I'm sure. Stay tuned for pictures from the testing days!
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1/1/2007 Happy New Year from all of us at Maison Martial Arts!
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12/26/2006 Well, everyone at the dojo has now seen the MMA logo embroidered on jackets. A special thanks to Johanna at the embroidery shop for her fast and most excellent work! and thanks again to Roy for his logistical support once again.
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12/22/2006 Testing. Congratulations to all who tested. The testing for the daytime adult class and the evening beginner/intermediate class both went well.
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11/29/2006 The results from this year's MSKC tournament circuit have Sensei Maison taking First Place in Traditional Weapons and Second Place in Traditional Open Hand. They have Gary Foote as taking Third place in Open Hand and Fourth place in Weapons. All in all I'd say that both competitors have done an outstanding job this year. Both of them have competed at all but one tournament this year and to hold their positions for a full circuit year is AWESOME! Great Job Guys!
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11/15/2006 The re-designed website is almost complete and should be launched later this month! The student area should be fully functional on new site as well.
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11/7/2006 For those of you who didn't know it Maison Martial Arts has a "MySpace" as well as this site. It can be found at http://www.myspace.com/Maison_Martial_Arts and the activity has steadily increased on both web sites.===============================================
11/2/2006 Testing! The adult class tested yesterday and each an every one of them performed well. Great Job Guys! (and they thought it was going to be easy) This was the first official testing for Maison Martial Arts in our new building!
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10/23/2006 The Grand Opening was a big success! and I would like to thank everyone who helped make it so. I'd also like to thank our students for their tireless efforts. Gary, Michael, Roy and Jimi did an awesome job! Thanks Guys. and a special thanks to Chef Roy and Chef Kellie for cooking all afternoon.
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10/12/2006 The Grand Opening is scheduled for Saturday the 21st. so please come out and join us for a while and check out the Dojo! Have a dog, chips and a pop and watch a demonstration or two :-) Meet and mingle with the current students and instructors of Maison Martial Arts.
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10/12/2006 I have some new pictures from Steve at Downriver Photography and I'll try to get them posted soon! Also I have a tentative schedule and it will be posted yet this week.
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10/11/2006 Well, we've gotten all of our approvals from the city and our business license so now the only thing to do is CELEBRATE!
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10/3/2006 It seems like a long time since we've had an update so here it is. We've had our occupancy inspections and have passed the Building, Electrical and Fire inspections but we failed on the plumbing and mechanical. Both issues are minor and will be rectified in short order. The uniforms and T-Shirts are at the silk screeners and we should have them back in about a week. We've ordered some more equipment like a stretching machine and a few sets of punching gloves and all of that will be in before weeks end. We've installed a new sign on the building and are awaiting the signs for the street. All in all there are still things happening but it just seems to be moving at a snail's pace. We are planning our Grand opening for the weekend of the 21st so stay tuned.
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8/28/2006 All of the utilities are now switched over, We have acquired more equipment and supplies and in general everything is going well. It won't be long now before the Grand Opening.
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8/27/2006 Sensei Maison has passed his testing and earned his second degree black belt. His pre-test and test were very difficult to say the least but it was worth the effort. Sensei Maison would like to thank all of the people who turned out for his testing to show their support for him and the school.
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8/24/2006 Michael Mitchell has tested and earned his Red Belt! His test was hard work but Michael was prepared and performed well. Way to go Michael!
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8/14/2006 We have begun moving in and the utilities are in process, The changing rooms are up and the exercise equipment is in place. We have mirrors being delivered this week and all in all it's a busy time at the new dojo!
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8/9/2006 Well, The lease has been signed and we will begin moving equipment in on the 10th! Our address is 25213A Gratiot and we should be able to open in the first week of September! Stay Tuned.
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7/27/2006
We will be signing the lease on this building in mid August, and should
be fully operational by September 1st. Stay tuned for information on the
Grand Opening!
We have found many of the suppliers that we will be using for things
like uniforms and shirts.
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7/25/2006 We
have gone on a walk through of a very nice building in Roseville and I
believe that we will be moving in either in mid August or early
September. The building will require very little work prior to opening
the doors to the public. Our plan is to be open for business in
September. The building is located in the 10 mile and Gratiot area and
I'll post the address after we sign the lease.
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7/18/2006
Having looked at six buildings and speaking with several realtors and
owners I believe that we may have found a building to move into! The
building if we move in will give us a 1400 square foot training floor
plus ample locker rooms. The location is great and ease of access is excellent
as well.
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7/17/2006 We will be looking at three
more buildings this week on Gratiot in Roseville.
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7/17/2006 The Students Only area is well under way
and will be functional in a week or so.
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Gary has tested (and passed) his Brown
Belt (3rd Gup) test! Way to go Gary! (Watch the pictures
page for photos from Gary's test!)
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We're currently negotiating with a realtor on a
building lease in Roseville on Gratiot.
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We've looked at and walked through buildings for
lease in Roseville, Warren, East Pointe, Mt. Clemens & St. Clair
Shores.
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