Newark Police Academy Has H.E.A.R.T. — CLASSES NOW AT THE NEWARK POLICE ACADEMY

H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts now has classes at the Newark Police Academy Gymnasium (Located at 1 Lincoln Ave.) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights from 4 P.M. to 6 P.M.

The classes are still free provided you "earn" them by doing volunteer work for various local, national and or global nonprofit groups. The choice is yours, you choose the Federally recognized 501(c)(3) Nonprofit group to help! We just need to coordinate the volunteer work with the Nonprofit's Program Director. That's it! You get two days or Martial Arts lessons for every one day of volunteer work!

Visit our website www.HeartMartialArts.org for additional information or give us a call at 973-415-8869

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Branch Brook Park Alliance Thank You Letters

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools Team put together a series of letters to the team at Branch Brook Park Alliance. The students expressed their appreciation for having such a beautiful park in their community and I am very impressed with how everyone seemed to truly understand that it everyone's responsibility to take care of the earth!

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21st Century Skills Addressed: Teamwork, Leadership, Advanced Literacy, Oral Communication

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What is an Art Director?

Sensei Jim shares what he does for a living with H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools Team.

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X-Box 360 Can Food Drive Competition Rap

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools Team had a bit of fun bust'n out the rhymes to help create awareness of the Jersey Food Bank Can Food Drive. Great job everyone, I am very proud of all of you!

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Can Food Drive Donation Boxes - X-Box 360 Competition

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools Team put a lot of hard work into creating all the flyers and donation boxes to help promote the Can Food Drive to help the Jersey Food Bank. Of course they were excited about possibility of winning an X-Box 360 Kinect Game Bundle donated by the incredible team at Mally Beauty!

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Kihon Sono San - Basic Kata Number Three

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students have been practicing the third Kata (Form or Formal Movement Exercise) which will be part of our WOW! performance.

The third Kata in Japanses is called " Kihon Sono San" or Basic Kata Number Three. The students have just begun this Kata and they seem to be enjoying it differences from the first two Katas. The third Kata helps the students understand how to block and counter attack.

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Kihon Sono Ni - Basic Kata Number Two

H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students have been practicing the second Kata (Form or Formal Movement Exercise) which will be part of our WOW! performance.

The second Kata in Japanses is called " Kihon Sono Ni" or Basic Kata Number Two, the main difference between the first and second Kata are the kicks. In the first Kata the kicks are all straight (Mae Geri) Front Snap Kicks but the second Kata introduces the roudhouse kick (a circular technique) to the back kick (Ushiro Geri). This combination helps the students to connect/flow a straight technique to round technique, thus learning how to vary their angle of attack/approach.

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Kihon Sono Ichi - Basic Kata Number One - Round Two

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students have been practicing the first Kata (Form or Formal Movement Exercise) which will be part of our WOW! performance.

The first Kata in Japanses is called " Kihon Sono Ichi" or Basic Kata Number One. The students are getting better but we need to keep practicing for the WOW! Keep up the good work!

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Having Some Fun

It's not always about hard core techniques... sometimes you just have to have a bit of fun... H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts Team you are doing a great job, keep up the good work!

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Branch Brook Park Volunteer Work

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students accomplished an amazing amount of work for the Branch Brook Park Alliance in a short amount of time. Our team Along with the Alyson Nash and Dan Salvante (from Branch Brook Park Alliance) helped to clean up several areas in the park. From picking up trash to cleaning the Cherrie Blossom Tree beds from weeds there was plenty of work to go around, especially after finding out that Branch Brook Park has over 4,100 Cherrie Blossom Trees!

The students truly appreciated being out in a beautiful park and taking in the fresh air after a long day at school. Perhaps, more importantly though, they learned that it is everyone's responsibility to take care of the park/Earth. Thank Branch Brook Team for making this wonderful learning opportunity possible for our students!

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Basic Punches

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students Learned four basic punches. The Jab (Oi Tsuki), Jab and Reverse Punch/Two Punches (Nihon Tsuki), Upper Cut Punch (Shita Tsuki), Hook Punch (Furi Uchi).

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HEART Martial Arts Basic Back Kick

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students learned how to execute a back kick. In addition, the students learned the Japanese words for technique which are Ushiro Geri. Ushiro meaning "Back" and Geri meaning "Kick".

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HEART Martial Arts Class Beginning Ritual

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students learned the proper procedure for the start of each Martial Art class. The most import part of which is giving respect to one another.

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Creating Flyers for the Jersey Food Bank X-Box 360 Can Food Drive Competition

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students put their hearts into making the flyers to help promote the Can Food Drive for the Jersey Food Bank... and they were a little excited about the X-Box 360 Competition too!

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Punching - Fist (Seiken) - Striking (Tsuki)

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial and Citizen Schools students learned how to make a tight fist (Seiken), they also learned how to execute a one two punch (Nihon Tsuki) along with letting out load yells (Kias).

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Kihon Sono Ichi - Basic Kata Number One

H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students have been practicing the first Kata (Form or Formal Movement Exercise) which will be part of our WOW! performance. The first Kata in Japanses is called " Kihon Sono Ichi" or Basic Kata Number One.

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HEART Martial Arts Basic Footwork

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools Team learned the proper way to perform three basic types of foot work. In addition, the students learned the Japanese words for each techniques: All footwork in Japanese is referred to as Ahi No Hakobi while the individual steps are broken down into the slide step (Okuri Ashi), switch lead or switch step (Fumi Ashi), and the rapid switch step (Kosar).

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HEART Martial Arts Basic Stretches

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools Team learned the proper way to stretch prior to performing Martial Art techniques.

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Heart Martial Arts Basic Front Snap Kick

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools Team learned the proper form and Japanese words for a Front Snap Kick (Mae Geri).

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Heart Martial Arts Basic Knee Kick

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools Team learned the proper form and Japanese words for a Knee Kick (Hiza Geri).

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HEART Martial Arts Basic Fighting Stance

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools Team learned the proper form and Japanese words for Fighting Stance (Kumite No Tachi).

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X-Box 360 Can Food Drive Competition

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students are working hard to make the X-Box 360 Can Food Drive Competition a huge success. The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts team created morning school announcements, flyers and posters to help promote this worthy cause, all of the can food will be donate to the New Jersey Food Bank which is an organization that distributes food across the State of New Jersey to those in need.

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Jersey Food Bank - Thinking with the HEART

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students put their hearts and minds to work on creating posters and flyers to promote the Jersey Food Bank Can Food Drive and X-Box 360 competition... More details to come in the future blog posts... We want to thank Mally Beauty for making the X-Box 360 Kinect game bundle donation!

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The Volunteer Votes Are In

The H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts and Citizen Schools students put the hearts and minds into the voting. In the end the H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts class voted for four organizations to help out this semester. We will be helping:

— Any Soldier

— The Boys and Girls Club

— The Branch Brook Park Alliance

— The New Jersey Food Bank

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2010 Fall Citizen Schools Apprentice Day Fair

The Citizen Schools students were introduced to the next round of H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts. It was an exciting time as Citizen Schools students were presented H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts. mission which is to give from the heart and teach the Martial Arts for free to those willing to "earn" it by giving from each of their hearts to something they are passionate about by way of volunteer work.

The new students learned first hand from former H.E.A.R.T. Martial Arts students about they difference the community service work made not only for the receptive causes and charities but the difference the program made within each of them. If that was not enough to get the new students excited they surely had smiles on their face when Sensei Jim taught them all how to make a proper Hammer Fist. To top it all off a good number of the students got to test their new found technique by breaking the boards that were donated by the local, Bloomfield, Home Depot. Once again a special thank you to Manager Pete and his team over at the Home Depot, we truly appreciate all your help with making the Apprentice Day Fair a great event for all!

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