Selecting a martial arts school can be easy if you follow a few simple steps: 1. Check the internet and note schools in your town- is the web site current and up beat? Is the web site pleasing to the eye and informative? This may be an indication of future instruction. 2. Phone the schools [...]
Being laid up with a back injury for the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to watch some television. With the shows come commercials, and this being the Mid-Term Election time many of the commercials are to persuade us how to vote. Not going into any political views or what’s right or wrong, [...]
Newbury Park Martial Arts Center is pround to be a drop off center for the Toys forTots program sponsered byt the US Marine Corp. Please bring unrwapped toys to the dojo. As a thank you to each individual that donates to this worthy causes, NPMAC will provide a gift certificate upon drop off. Simply see [...]
Have you ever been in class and felt like you were living in Ground Hog’s day. “Didn’t I just spend a week to this kata” “Gosh, I seem to have been a blue belt for ages” Sound familiar. It can happen to all of us. Students spend approximately 3 months at each belt level and [...]
An oldy but a goody!! Sometimes we all need a reference point in our training. How should I look? How should I move? What should I be feeling?. Our curriculum is designed to allow students to fully internalize the material. During your training, you will experience the realm material many times. When you first go [...]
by Masaaki Hatsumi 34th Soke of the Togakure Ryu I believe that Ninpo, the highest order of Ninjutsu, should be offered to the world as a guiding influence for all martial artist. The physical and spiritual survival methods eventually immortalized by Japan’s ninja were in fact one of the sources of Japanese martial arts. Without [...]
This is from a Nike ad two decades ago. Still fabulous for Warriors at Newbury Park Martial Arts Center: 94 year old swimmers. 89 year old weightlifters. 99 year old marathoners. The back of Sports Illustrated is full of them. People who forgot to retire. And never got old. People who realized: It’s easier to [...]
While teaching a kids class last week, I posed the question “what could you promise to do”. I got the usual plethora of answers “Clean my room” “Help with the dishes” “study hard” etc. One kid offers another standard “I promise not to lie”. There was one student though, who had not answered, so I called on him. [...]
by An shu Stephen K. Hayes Two men train to win fights. One of them fights to beat other men and receive glory and treasure. He fights for himself. The other man fights when forced to defend those who are wrongfully endangered. He fights for others. Both are fighters. Which is the more noble? It [...]
Have you been stopped in the store and asked about NPMAC ? We have!! Show your NPMAC pride with one of our three new t-shirt designs— or a NPMAC “‘I Love Ninja” bumper sticker! Bumper stickers are re-positionable and guaranteed against sun fade!! //