We have entered a team in the Great Cycle Challenge to fight kids’ cancer! Our team is called AMA Dojo and I am inviting you to join us to ride throughout August. How does the Great Cycle Challenge work? You set yourself a ride target and pedal it down over the month, logging your kilometres via a free app which is linked to your personal…
Remember those words from class? We were either sparring, grappling, or training self-defenses with a classmate and your Sensei says: “YAME!!” ” COURTESY AND RESPECT.. THANK YOUR PARTNER.” ” FIND A NEW PARTNER AND INTRODUCE YOURSELF IF NEED BE” “HAJIME!” And, every time we started with a new partner our strategy would need to…
Baking and cooking with Chef Andres on Saturday at 3pm. Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies – best cookies ever!!! And Caesar salad – learn how to make your own delicious dressing Cookies 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks) 230 grams of…
We all need leadership credits to progress to our next belt. We know that assisting classes, helping out with dojo events, camps, and clean-ups, earn valuable hours towards these leadership credits. So right now, you are asking; “How can I earn leadership hours while training at home?” Leadership Hour Challenge Your mission, should you choose…
Chef Andres Salomon brings Baking to AMA in celebration of earth hour we are doing a Black out cake – Perfect for when you turn the lights off at 8:30 and why cake?? because we all could use a little cake right now. Join us Saturday night and bake along with us, starting at 3pm.…
As a form of physical exercise performed regularly, Tai Chi addresses the key components of fitness: muscle strength, flexibility and balance by engaging every major muscle and joint group in the body. Even bone strength can be improved. Good posture is essential in the practice of Tai Chi not only for the sequence of movements…
The best part of a fitness club is that you can go whenever you want. Unfortunately, this can be the worst part too. How often do we plan on going to the club before work, but then we get up late or the kids miss their bus? “Well I will just go after work today,…
To the onlooker, Tai Chi may present as simplistic, like a slow-moving dance with little challenge and stereotypically associated with an older population. In reality, Tai Chi is complex, targets many aspects of human health and is beneficial to both young and old. One primary benefit is Cardiovascular health. In Tai Chi practice, breathing is…
This is the beginning of several articles written by one of our family members, Mara Ouimette. —————- What form of exercise can benefit the mind, body and spirit, can be practiced by anyone regardless of age or physical ability, indoors or outdoors and requires no specialized equipment? The answer is simple: Tai Chi. The ancient…
I believe there are two moments in my life that have drastically changed who I am as a person: the day I got my drum set for Christmas almost four years ago and the day my dad signed me up for karate because I was being bullied at school. A lot of people seem to…
