ISSUE 1 MARCH 2016 VOLUME 10

A word from the

CHIEF INSTRUCTOR

Breaking striving for perfection

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7th May Tournament Round 1

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21st May All Rank Training

@ Murrumba Downs

4th June Grading

@ Kallangur

18th June All Rank Training

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they are all an integral part of the success of the Institute. My thanks go to the fol-lowing people: Jason Parker, Brett Par-ker, Joseph Sandona, Robert Sandona, Lee Griffith, Michael Griffith and Troy Johnson. These people have been there from the inception of the club and their efforts deserve the respect of all of our members. When we formed the IMT we had a very different group of instructors whom have all now retired, allowing my personal students to move up into the positions they now hold. These people are much more than students however —and the boys (now very much men) have been like the sons I have always wanted. And Lee is of course my ’Clayton’s wife’ (her words!). We have done so much together and created so many memories along the way. It’s been very much a shared journey, being as close as any family could be, and we’ve been there for each other along the way. I’ve seen these people grow up, fall in love, get married, have children, support each other in times of need and sickness, graduate from university, get great jobs, and develop into dignified and mature adults that inspire others to become bet-ter people themselves. They have had a positive effect within the club, with other long-standing members also following in their footsteps. I am so proud of every one of my instructors, assistant instruc-tors and black belts. They share the same qualities that the founding members have, which is true respect for one anoth-er and a bond that is hard to put into words. I am truly humbled by the way these people treat not just me, but each other. Thank you guys and girls — I

Welcome again to Breaking Ground, the IMT’s quarterly newsletter. I’d like to begin by saying a warm welcome to all our new members and their families, thank you for choosing to join us on your journey into martial arts. We are very proud of our club and its members, and with good reason. This year is a very special year for the organisation with a huge milestone about to be celebrated. This year marks our 20th year, which is a remarkable achievement by all those involved. Only a few of the original founding members are still around and

could not have made it to 20 years with-out your support. So this of course means one hell of a big party later this year, which will be our biggest event to date. We are planning to hold it later in the second half of the year — and of course we will provide details as soon as they are available. We have already started the year with some successful training sessions. We held our first all-rank training session at Bribie Island and had a very good rollup with well over 40 people joining in the fun of training next to, and in the water. John had his shiny new drone there, so some amazing footage was taken and will soon be uploaded to the website along with some excellent photos. Our next all rank training is set down for the 23rd of April and will be focusing on our upcoming tournament series starting on May the 7th, with the first round to be held at Bribie Island. Last year was our biggest series to date with Banyo win-ning the club trophy. I’m hoping for an even bigger event this year, so start prac-ticing your patterns and try to get a team together for the Team Display. Get in-volved, as these are a great day of fun and competition. We also held our first Training Camp at Currimundi on the Sunshine Coast at the beginning of March, with a great week-end had by all those in attendance. We covered patterns, self-defence, jumping kicks, pad work, set sparring, free spar-ring, morning stretching, running on the beach, and three full-on cardio workouts including boxing, Tabata and a swim-ming pool session that will be well re-membered by all those who participated.

By Peter Cameron

5th Degree Black Belt

Chief Instructor

Founder of IMT in Australia

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redcliffe ................ 3

ladies unleashed ... 3

bribie ...................... 4

master the art ....... 4

Murrumba Maniacs 5

banyo ..................... 5

deception bay ........ 6

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Kallangur By Brett Parker

4th Degree Black Belt

of what an amazing achievement this is. It’s only been made possible by the continued support of the students (and parents) and the tireless effort from the instructors. What a great group of people we have involved with IMT, with many more decades to come I’m sure. I’m going to start scratching the old brain cells and try and dig up some ―old school‖ training techniques which I have had fun with over the years and maybe not used in a while – look forward to some fun! Train Hard

Most of us were sore for days, but I like to think it was a good kind of sore. These camps are a highlight of the years’ train-ing, so thanks to all those that made the effort to support this one. Our next camp is for our Black Belts and senior grades on August 12-14 at the Log Cabin, again down in the Gold Coast hinterland near The Natural Bridge waterfall. We have been going here for a few years now and each camp is better than the last so please mark the date in your calendar.

Finally, after the disappointment of breaking my toe last year, I have set a date for my 6th Dan grading. It is set for the 6th of May at Kruger Hall (my spir-itual home) at 6:30pm. All are welcome to come and watch (and cheer me on of course). This grading will be a display of patterns and sparring demonstrating my ability and maturity as a martial artist. It will be 10 years since my last grading, and yes, even I get nervous for such a focussed demonstration of what I have learned. I hope to see you all there. Good luck to all our members going for the grading. Remember that it’s a privi-lege to be asked to participate in a grad-

ing — not a right. You have to be pre-pared and have put in the hard work at class, been regular in your training and be genuinely ready for the next step up. I expect a student to pass, not just scrape through, and I for one never want to fail someone attempting an examination. While you might feel you want to move up, your instructor is ultimately the per-son to decide if you are ready, as you represent them while on the floor. Re-member, they have been training you to be the best you can be on the day. Remember to train hard, kick high and keep striving for perfection.

A word from the CHIEF INSTRUCTOR

2016 will be an important milestone year for us here at IMT. This marks our 20th anniversary as an organisation, so we are planning some big things for this year. Starting with the Chief Instructor Mr. Peter Cameron doing his 6th Degree Black Belt Grading on the 6th of May. This is a very important event for the club, it will not only be a demonstration of his abilities as a martial artist and a leader, but it will also enable more growth within the organisation. We all wish him the best of luck! Our Social Day will also be an important event. It will be used as a true celebration of our 20th year for all members and their families, both past and present. We are endeavouring to do something special, so watch this space for more details. The Ladies Unleashed Self Defence days are back. Kathy Pascoe and Jacinta Forbes are putting in a lot of hard work to make these days as informative and empowering as the have been in years gone by. They are a great way of reaching out to the community and giving women the knowledge to keep themselves safe. Keep your eyes on the newsletters for more events throughout the year.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE

fun and exciting day. Given it’s been a couple of years since the Kallangur Club won the perpetual club trophy, I would like to see eve-ryone involved to make a real push for our club to win it back, I know for a lot of you this means moving up to harder divisions or even getting out of your comfort zone to com-plete for the first time. Either way it’s all about having fun and gaining experience. The Kallangur Club will also be hosting the se-cond tournament this year and running the canteen, more details to follow on this in the coming months. Also as mentioned by the Chief Instructor recently, this year celebrates 20 years since IMT was founded. As a founding member and instructor I’m super excited and super proud

news Being the first edition of the Kallangur News for 2016, I would like to welcome the new students who have joined us in 2016 as well as some returning old faces, and of course a big welcome back to all the other students to another exciting and challenging year of train-ing. With the first IMT Tournament coming up in May I would like to see all of our students who competed last year to get involved again and more importantly the students who have not been to a tournament to get involved for

By Jason Parker

4th Degree Black Belt

Welcome back to what promises to be a big

year for IMT.

Although the Redcliffe club has come back

a bit smaller in numbers, it has allowed me

to spend a lot more time focusing on mak-

ing individual improvements on each stu-

dent. I really like being able to get the best

out of all my students, and they have cer-

tainly been giving their best at class, and

the hard work is really showing.

It’s amazing to think about this being the

20th year of IMT. It is definitely making

me feel nostalgic, as well as bringing up old

memories of when I was 20 years younger

to that next level, It’s because we love what

we do, the reward that it brings, but it also

helps us with our own development. You

learn so much more detail about everything

you have been practicing over the years,

and your understanding increases exponen-

tially the longer you teach.

Keep training hard in class, listen carefully

and if you can help out a fellow student

here and there, pass on what you have

learnt. Who knows, maybe one day you

could be standing at the front of a class,

shaping the martial artists of the future.

and just starting out my career in Instruct-

ing.

Instructing is such a rewarding experience.

Any time you can help a student with some-

thing, watch them grow and develop their

skills, or just inspire them to achieve more

than they thought themselves capable, is a

reward like no other.

Instructing isn’t for everyone, but as an

instructor, you treat every student on the

floor like a potential future instructor. You

give them everything you can possibly give,

every time. They may one day be at you

side helping at class, and then they may one

day be leading their own.

For those of us who have taken our training

ladies unleashed self-defence workshop

Far too often in the current day, we hear about women or girls being attacked, raped, and even murdered. Why are we having our sense of safety taken away from us, and why should we feel intimidat-ed in our right to walk alone? At what point do we decide to take control and say this is not ok, and how do we go about it? Saturday 18 June 2016, will see us holding the 1st round of our ―Ladies Unleashed – Self De-fense Workshop for Women‖. These sessions are a great starting point for females who want to take that first step towards taking control. There will be a Police guest speaker, who will cover many topics ranging from the flight/fight re-sponses, to getting inside the mind of an attacker. You will get to learn some basic self defense strategies for different attacks, and get to unleash some frustrations on pads. Sometimes just real-izing what you are capable of, is an important step towards gaining some self confidence, and is important in your ability to think clearly if you were put in an unfavourable situation. So if you care about yourself, or any other females in your life, contact details for these workshops are on the flyer. We hope to see you there to take part in these life changing workshops. All proceeds will be donated to The Leukemia Foundation.

Testimonials from past participants Shauna: ―Informative, friendly environment & fun.‖ Lauren: ―The session covered all sorts of possible attacks and it was theoretical as well as practical, plus it was a workout and a good time! My friend and I will definitely come again. We had a great time!‖

Redcliffe review

By Lee Griffith

2nd Degree Black Belt

Ever stop to reflect on your own mindset on and off the training floor? Would you class yourself as having a growth or fixed mindset when it comes to attempting something new at training or striving for the next rank or stage of your development in Taekwondo? Our internal dialogue is so crucial in those moments when we’re deciding whether to move into new territo-ry, new skills…to take risks in order to learn more, to improve. Take time to reflect on that inner speak of yours and aim to develop a Growth Mindset and see what chang-es occur in your life….including your life as a martial artist. Parents can also monitor their own children’s Growth Mindset, encouraging them to trade Fixed Mindset statements to Growth Mindset statements. Ultimately which mindset you have is totally up to you. You own your own mindset. Here’s to growth!

All’s been relatively quiet on Bribie with the gang braving the heat (like everyone else) to put their best effort into their training. We wish everyone grading a most successful and rewarding day. We also look forward to seeing you on Bribie for the first tournament of the year. THE MINDSET MAKETH THE

MARTIAL ARTIST! Mindset: (definition)

1. A fixed mental attitude or

disposition that predeter-mines a person's responses to and interpretations of situa-tions.

2. An inclination or a habit. In martial arts, as in life, there are two different types of student; those with a fixed mindset and those with a growth mindset.

Training your Mind Mini-series - Part 1: Controlling your thoughts Developing a strong and positive mindset is an essen-tial part of your martial arts journey and one which will flow into all areas of your life. Putting the effort in to train your mind and how it thinks is just as important as training your body and working on your technique. This is what separates a good martial artist from a great martial artist. Bruce Lee is a prime example for a mar-tial artist who not only trained his body, but also spent years training to ―Master his Mind.‖ How you think about what you're doing, what's going on around you and even the people you are interacting and training with will impact the way you train and perform, whether it be a regular training session or your

This small change in wording will alter your mindset towards improvement and growth rather than limitations and defeat. This same thing applies to all areas of training you wish to improve such as blocking or kicking. In addition to thinking positively about yourself, when training with a partner, be sure to pro-vide "constructive criticism," to encourage them to continue in a positive manner and keep their mindset focused on improvement and ―Striving for Perfection.‖ “Choose the positive. You have choice - you are master of your attitude - choose the positive, the construc-tive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.” - Bruce Lee

Look out for part two of the "Training your Mind" mini-series in the next episode of "Breaking Ground."

next grading or tournament. Your thoughts about the situation you're in, what you're doing, the people you're with and most importantly, how you think about your-self, affect every action you take. Therefore, your thoughts directly control the results of your experience. By changing how you think, you can change your results. Most people underestimate the power of their language, whether it be in their own thoughts to ourselves or spoken out loud. Everything we say, whether it be positive, or negative has an effect on ourselves or those around us. It might be an immediate and obvious effect which creates a reaction or it might sit in the subcon-scious mind unidentified. By using negative language, you impose limits and bring yourself and others down. This will in turn create more negative experiences and stop you from reaching your full potential. When train-ing, avoid using negative wording like, "I can't" or "It's too hard." When analysing yourself, focus on the posi-tive result you want to achieve rather than the problem. For example, if you notice your knee isn't bent correct-ly in a forward stance, rather than saying, "my stances are bad," you might say, "I CAN bend my knees more."

By Joseph Sandona

3rd Degree Black Belt

Mastering the art

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FIXED MINDSET GROWTH MINDSET

The student with a fixed mindset:

Has a static intelligence

Avoids challenges

Gives up easily

Sees their efforts as fruitless

Ignores useful constructive feedback from their instruc-tor

Feels threatened by the success or the higher rank of others

Is afraid to make mistakes

The student with a growth mindset:

Has an intelligence that can be developed

Has the desire to learn and a tendency to embrace chal-lenges in their training

Persists in the face of set-backs

Sees effort as the path to mastery

Learns from constructive feedback

Finds lessons and inspira-tion in the success of others

Learns from their mistakes and has a desire and the perseverance to continue onwards and upwards.

Shows a greater sense of free will.

Hi everyone and welcome to 2016. Hard to believe that the year is almost ¼ over. The Murrumba class has been back at training for 2 months now so into the regular bi-weekly training sessions. Unfortunately, we lost a few students over the Xmas break which is something that seems to happen every year. But hopefully word will spread and we will find new students to fill the gaps. Remember our organisa-tion grows on words of mouth – so if you enjoy train-ing with us tell all your friends. Best of luck to all students grading today but especial-ly Nefi who will be attempting her first grading – hopefully the first of many. Also Jayda who will be attempting her brown belt grading – an awesome feat for a 10-year-old. Murrumba class will continue to train over the Easter break and school holidays. We plan to have some fun classes over the holidays including break falling and

Or as the defender pull back only a short distance, and therefore cramp the attacker, they will often get frus-trated and just throw a hand technique – which is fast but if you know it is coming it should be easy to block. As the defender, THINK before you pull back. Con-sider how the way you pull back will ―draw‖ a particu-lar attack or limit the ability for the attacker to throw certain attacks. This is a way of manipulating the process and makes you look like you can control minds, so you will look awesome. Just remember your attacker is also reading this same article, so knows what you are up to and will work out ways to counter this process…. Ahh the never ending battle of wits. Try it out and see if you can outwit your attacker or the defender. And as always have fun with it.

take downs. So if you are going away your loss. My training tip for this month is for the green – brown belts doing their set sparring. Have you ever noticed that often when doing set sparring with a black belt they seem to know what attack you are going to throw before you actually throw it? How do we do that? Can we control your thoughts? Black Belts are awesome but controlling your attacks is not something we can do…. Or is it?? As you know the attacker must pull back first. Most defenders just pull back without thinking and hope they can block the attack. BUT there is a better way – Did you know you can manipulate your opponent using various techniques? Like which foot the defend-er pulls back OR the distance the defender pulls back OR intentionally showing a gap. Example - if the attacker pulls back their right foot and you pull back with the opposite foot (your left) – the attacker is likely to throw a rear leg turning kick, be-cause it appears to be the biggest gap. I love rear leg turning kicks, as I tell all my students they are the slowest and therefore the easiest kick to block.

By John Barron

2nd Degree Black Belt

Maniacs Murrumba

By Tony Robinson

2nd Degree Black Belt

The Banyo Club has started the New Year with quite a few new students. Some are quite young and won’t be setting any speed records as far as grad-ings go, but they are taking something out of each lesson and are enjoying themselves. We might need a wee peewee division at the tournament. The rest of the class is training hard and while this will be a very quiet grading for our club, June is looking like a big day for us. Unfortunately we also lost a couple of students from last year. The most nota-ble being Laurie and Jackson who were both a big chance of grading for their black belts this year. While it was sad to see them have to leave us for their own personal reasons, we wish them

at the end of the year just aren’t work-ing out. Now is the time to revisit your basics. Take your time and make sure you have tension in your techniques, you are moving your head and feet properly and you are working well with your partner. If you are working on pat-terns, slow down and check your loads and stances etc. before moving to the next one. Remember it is getting your basics right that got you where you are today and it is those same basics that will help you be better tomorrow.

well and know that they will remember what they have learned for the rest of their lives. We also lost one of IMT’s elder states-man in John Clancy-Jones who has de-cided it was time to retire. Well I think he has anyway. I got to class 2 weeks ago to find him there spraying for bindi and fertilising the grass outside the hall where we like to train in the hot weath-er. Whilst he didn’t hang around to train (he gave away all his gear in case he got the urge), it was great to see him and the whole class misses him. Training tip: It is always hard after having a break like the Christmas one we have all just come back from. You find that you have lost some fitness, your timing is out and the things you were doing well

Banyo breakers

Ormeau By Troy Johnson

2nd Degree Black Belt report command position, I noticed many students who had feet turned out from the start, toes facing outwards. Almost all coloured belt patterns start with a back stance or a riding stance meaning that the right foot in all cases doesn’t need to move in the initial step. The main problem with this is it will force you to add another movement to adjust the foot that is not stepping on first movement. By having your feet facing straight ahead and one shoul-ders width apart you will avoid this problem. Check yourself the next time you go through your patterns and be aware of this.

the exact same, no one was not hurting.

From the Ormeau team itself now, our class is rapidly expanding, we are now struggling to fit everyone in the one room. My thanks goes to Aaron who has really stepped up to help assist with the class, he is a great influence on the students. The class has also enjoyed watching and learning from Peter, who has been making his way up down to our class when he can. Watching him prep for 6th de-gree has been a privilege, one that I can speak for everyone and say we have learnt from.

I would like to just talk about technique quickly on something that I observed at the camp and at many all rank sessions, this is something that I continually bring up with my own students. I heard a saying once that I liked and I have used ever since, ―start perfect and work from there‖.

How do you start perfect? Well in my opinion you start with perfect foot positioning from

Hello to everyone from the Ormeau crew

Crazy how it’s the first newsletter of the year already, the days are just going by so fast now. As always good luck to all the students who are on the floor grading today, keep your hands up and keep pushing, you will all be fine. You wouldn’t be here if your instructor didn’t think you could do it.

For those of you who missed the awesome opportunity to attend the camp held at Cur-rumundi at the beginning of the month, it was a fantastic weekend. It was a good weekend, with good effort from everyone who attended. The Saturday sessions were so intense that by Sunday kicking, punching, striking, moving in anyway, hurt like hell. Everyone was feeling

By Jason Pascoe

2nd Degree Black Belt

that’s a test of balance and strength! But it

was a FUN camp overall, thank you for

supporting it.

Everyone who is going for the first grading

of the year best of luck i hope you do well.

Keep your hands up and i will see you at

the grading .

Hello from Jason Pascoe and the Deception

Bay students .

We are here again to start another full year

of training to become the best martial artists

we can be. I hope everyone is as happy to

be back at training as I am, the foot blisters

should be gone by now, so it should be

good!

Well done to Isabel Wellock who competed

in her first AMAC tournament last month.

She got 2 placings out of 3 events. It was a

good display! Also congratulations to Fe-

licity and Ebony who also won medals on

the day.

The AMAC tournament was a fun day and I

think we could probably clean up in the

standings at the next tournament, so let’s all

get to the next one.

The first camp of the year has already come

and gone, it was an enjoyable time all round

and everyone had a great time. Peter Cam-

eron took an excellent water session that

seemed to work the body all over without

knowing it .

Another convincing victory from the black

belts over the coloured belts in our beach

soccer game (have they ever won one ?)

We also did sparring in the ocean. Now

Deception Bay buzz