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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If youlove what you are doing, you will be successful.” - Albert Schweitzer

I magine if you woke up one morning and there were absolutely no rules to follow. What would

life be like if you could sleep until 11:00 am and skip school? Imagine if you could drive a car anywhere you wanted with-out needing a driver’s license. What if you could eat your fa-vorite snack food as your dinner? How about going to bed anytime you wanted? Although living with no rules might initially be appealing, life without rules would be very detrimental to your life. No school means no education. No minimum driving age results in more traffi c accidents. Not eating well-balanced

meals keeps you from being physically fi t, strong and ultimate-ly healthy. Ignoring sensible bedtimes deprives your body of much rest needed to restore your energy. Rules are actually es-sential to our overall well-being as individuals and as a society.

At our school, we have rules that we ask our students and par-ents to follow. Some rules are simple, such as coming to class prepared and on time. This allows classes to start punctually and therefore to be of a benefi t to all students. Students should arrive in proper clothing that is neat and clean. This shows re-spect for your school and for yourself. There should be no dis-ruptive talking while classes are is session. This allows students to properly focus their attention on their training. These basic rules teach responsibility, respect, and courtesy for others. The

rules are put in place for your benefi t as well as the benefi t of our school as a group. As students of the martial arts, it is

important to embrace all school rules and allow them to guide you to becoming better martial artists.

It’s true that martial arts schools tend to be more strict than many other places or activities you may attend. But this is also why martial arts training has earned a

positive reputation for helping children to develop bet-ter self-discipline. It is our goal that all students can take

the rules of our school and apply them to their everyday lives at home, at their scholastic school, and eventually at their careers. So the next time you read or hear a rule, policy, or regulation, ask yourself how this will make you a better person and make the rule your own.

n By Joseph Galea

Hey Kids, Why Are There So Many Rules?

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Martial Arts is a Big Part of My Life

Tips for Making “Easy Meals” Healthy

By Sam Arnow, Age 11Martial arts plays a big part in my life. It keeps me strong and athletic. All of my friends are at karate, and it helps me stay happy.

Martial arts has helped me get through life. My father was recently seriously injured. My karate studio was one place that people were concerned, but for 45 minutes I could concentrate and focus on something else besides by father’s injury.

Martial arts means so much to me that I even call it “my life.” If I have had a bad day, I think about karate and I have a good day. I highly encourage other people to do martial arts, and maybe they will get the same joy out of it as I do.

Sam Arnow is a student at Tres & Kelley Weatherford’s West Coast Tae Kwon Do

Tips for Making “Easy Meals” Healthy

Perking up Prepared FoodsAdd a single serving can of tuna and chopped veggies to pasta salad purchased from the grocery store deli counter. (Make sure the pasta salad has a “light” dressing on it.)

Top frozen pizza (plain, no extra cheese) with lots of tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, broccoli and onions.

Try breakfast of whole grain frozen waffl es topped with fresh or frozen fruit, hot applesauce or low fat yogurt.

Add raisins or other dried, chopped fruit to instant oatmeal or other hot cereal.

Open a can of fat-free refried beans and heat in the microwave, add veggies and salsa and roll mixture in a tortilla.

Meals on the GoRead the entire menu. There may be delicious “lite” or “healthy choice” selections that you may not see if you don’t take the time to review all your options.

Try something new. Ethiopian, Indian, Thai, Lebanese, Japa-nese, and many other cuisines offer a wide variety of healthy menu items.

Ask for extra veggies.Split two entrees with a friend. You will get more variety and nu-tritional value in your meal, without ordering additional food.

Order a healthy appetizer or bowl of soup (not cream based) as a main course and round out your meal with a garden salad with low fat dressing (with grilled chicken on it?)

You can eat healthfully while eating “easy,” it just takes a little bit more thought than choosing what sounds the tastiest to you at the time. Focus on cutting down on the fat and increasing the veggies while trying to maintain variety, and everything will fall into place.

n By Jennifer G. Galea MS RD

Probably all of us would love to eat healthy home-cooked foods for every meal of every day. But who has the time to eat such meals, never mind prepare them each day? Many of us rely on prepared foods or take-out, or dining out. Here are a few suggestions for improving the healthfulness of “easy” meals, based on recommendations of the American Institute for Cancer Research.

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Interesting Astronomical Facts

1. Although the planet Jupiter is over 10 times larger than Earth, there are only 10 earth hours in one Jupiter Day!

2. Saturn is known as the “ringed” planet because of its elaborate ring system. While the outer rings can expand well over 500 thousand miles wide, they are only a couple of miles thick!

3. Did you know that Pluto isn’t always the fur-thest planet from the sun? Because of its very elliptical orbit around the sun, Pluto crosses Neptune’s orbit for 20 years of its 220 year path around the sun.

4. In August 2003, Mars will be only 30 mil-lion miles from Earth, the closest it has been in 50,000 years!

Interesting Language Facts!1. There are more than 2,700 languages in the world.

2. The language in which a government conducts business is the offi cial language of that country.

3. More than 1,000 diff erent languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.

4. The Berbers of North Africa have no written form of their language.

5. Somalia is the only African country in which the entire population speaks the same lan-guage, Somali.

6. All pilots on international fl ights identify them-selves in English.

Resource: Factmonster.com

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Official Joe Lewis Training Center

March Promotions Please join us in congratulating the following students, who were promoted on Wednesday, March 14th: Little Ninjas™: High Orange Belt – Rishi Basu,

Ryan Chang, Francesca Delgais, and Andrew Kalyvas

Yellow Belt – Allegra Copland Karate Kidz™: Yellow Belt – Kevin Perez

Our newly promoted Little Ninjas™

New Yellow Belt Kevin Perez, with his

sparring partners, Leo Febrarro, Sean Lyons, and Benjamin Campo

Northeast Martial Arts Conference Members of Wisdom Way Martial Arts attended the 2nd Annual Ultimate Northeast Mixed Martial Arts Conference at the Nevele Grand Resort in the Catskills from Friday, March 16th through Sunday, March 18th.

Participants in this year’s conference had the rare opportunity to train with many of the World’s top martial arts instructors, including Joe Lewis (kickboxing), Bill Wallace (“Superfoot” systems), Michael DePasquale Jr. (Ju-Jitsu) Mike Allen (head & foot rhythm), Walt Lysak (Integrated Combative Arts), Richard Ryan (Dynamic Combat), and Mike Lee Kanarek (Haganah).

Allegra Copland and B.J. Campo training during a Bill “Superfoot” Wallace session

B.J. Campo and Nicholas Vrahimis

prepare for some heavy hitting, even after a full day of training classes!

Costas Vrahimis and Jack Powers train

together during a Joe Lewis session

Wisdom Way’s conference attendees Nicholas Vrahimis, Allegra Copland,

B.J. Campo, Jack Powers, Emily Copland, Dennis Campo, Dennis Powers, Costas

Vrahimis, Harris Vrahimis, and Mike Kubilus during our last dinner together

Nearly 100 participants gathered for this fantastic weekend of training and friendship. If you missed this year’s event, you missed a great one. We hope you can join us in 2008! (We are happy to report that no one was injured en route to the conference, as we were welcomed with a treacherous snow storm on Friday.) April Anniversaries Please join us in congratulating the following students, who will be celebrating their anniversaries with Wisdom Way Martial Arts in April: Allegra Copland – 1 year Joshua Timmermans – 1 year

April Birthdays Let’s extend Happy Birthday wishes this month to Robert Horowitz, Rudy Smith, Zachary Brown, and Cosette Clarkson. Best wishes & many more!!! Welcome Our New Students A warm welcome goes out this month to Julia Farahat, Jackson Pedone, Wesley Pedone, Christopher Rhodes, Isabelle Rhodes, Ashley Soules, Christian Thompkins, and Jonathan Thompkins. Welcome to the Wisdom Way Martial Arts family! We are very happy to have you!!! Closing Remarks Please keep in mind that Wisdom Way Martial Arts is your school. If you ever have any questions, concerns, or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us at kyosah@wisdomway.net or by phone at (914) 738-7700.

Wisdom Way Martial Arts

135 Wolfs Lane Pelham, NY 10803

Phone: (914) 738-7700

http://www.wisdomway.net Email: kyosah@wisdomway.net