CHANGES TO SOME CLASSES – April 2014

Due to some special events in April there will be some small changes to our usual class timetables:

• Friday, 4th April – no classes in Maidstone (due to Southern Championships)
• Sunday, 6th April – no class in Chilham
• Friday, 18th April – no classes in Maidstone (due to gym closing early and Good Friday)
• Sunday, 20th April – no classes in Chilham & Canterbury (Easter Sunday)

If your class has been cancelled please feel free to attend another class that is convenient for you.  If you need any details please e-mail us on: kent@mattfiddes.com or speak to your instructor.

MF Kent working exclusively with Forever Living

Time and time again I am asked about health products, supplements and what to take to aid a healthy lifestyle as well as intense exercise.  After a great deal of research I have decided to launch an exclusive partnership with Forever Living (click here to view their website).

We are the only Matt Fiddes School to work with such a company and we are proud to be associated with such a professional organisation, providing extremely high quality products for a wide range of purposes:

• Sports performance
• Day-to-day healthy living
• Skin Care
• Weight loss
• & much more

I will be sending out more information about specific products and personally recommend certain items for our students over the next few weeks or so.  Meanwhile, you can view all of the products and if you cannot wait you can order straight away:

MF Kent Forever Living product page

After discussions with the team and listening to feedback from students I have decided to add an extra class at the end of the evening in Canterbury.  This will simply be an additional 30-min training period which will follow the adult class and will cover a variety of things, all of which I will advertise in advance.

This will be a trial period and will continue if numbers are good.

New class:  8:00 – 8:30pm

CONTENT

Dates: Sunday, 26th January – 23rd February 2014

• Content:  Forms – 1st Degree & above students only

Dates: Sunday, 2nd March – 30th March 2014

• Content: Adult Only Sparring

Please note that we are running this extra session based on feedback from our students and so will continue as long as there is good attendance.  This is a free session so please let me know if you are going to attend.

The 2014 MF Kent diary is now available to download from the student login section of our website.  There you will find dates for:

• Colourbelt Gradings
• Panel Gradings
• Junior Instructor Training
• MF Championships
• Championship Training (there are no training dates for the British Championships as we have not confirmed the date yet)

Exciting year ahead!

Happy New Year to you and welcome to the start of a very exciting 2014!

I hope you and your families have had a wonderful festive period and are all rested and raring to go.  All classes starts from Sunday, 5th January (Chilham & Canterbury) at the normal times and our school clubs start this week also.

We are planning plenty of exciting things for this year so I hope you are ready to work hard, be challenged and and achieve some wonderful things.  The 2014 diary is being finalised and we will notify you when this is free to download from the student login section of our website.

In the meantime, those of you (red stripes and above) who have been working towards your next Panel Grading have no doubt been working hard over the holiday period and I look forward to potentially tag-testing you over the next week or so.  As a reminder:

8th February – Panel Grading, Canterbury

1st March – Panel Grading, Swindon

NEW YEAR – NEW YOU

As we embark on a new year we encourage you to set yourself goals and plan how you can achieve them.  To help you with that, training with family and friends will be a huge benefit and also a great deal of fun.

Feel free to bring along all of your family and friends (to the appropriate classes) throughout January and let them experience all of the fun.  Just let us know who will be coming and when.

LEADERSHIP / WEAPONS CLASSES

We have a few spaces available in a special Leadershipclasses starting from January.  If you are interested in adding a little extra excitement to your Martial Arts training and would like to try your hand at weapons skills as well as lots of other exciting elements then simply speak to your instructor.  The class times are:

Canterbury – Sunday, 6:00pm

Staplehurst – Thursday, 7:00pm

Enjoy the last day of the break and I very much look forward to seeing you all back in class this week and kicking off 2014 with a bang.

Master Finch