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Breaking Down Barriers

Here at Community Martial Arts we are really REALLY excited!

It is Back to School Time and if you hadn’t guessed it, we are doing a few things around the school to help students and parents make that transition.

First of all to our existing students…. A FREE Wii.

We are giving away Wii in a drawing to a lucky student who refers a student to our school. Along with that, each student will receive a check from us for $50 just for helping their friends decide to make the fun and healthy decision of joining our school.

So, you drag friend in to sign up and you get a chance to win a New Wii! It’s that SIMPLE!

If you know someone who would benefit from this, have them fill out this form and we will get in contact with them.

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Secondly, we are offering a never seen before pilot program to the community. We are giving away free kids classes at the Mt. Vernon school. It is part of our “Community Initiative” at community martial arts where by we are giving away 4 free classes on Saturday mornings to kids who could benefit from learning the basics of the martial arts in a fun and safe environment.

You can get the details by going to http://www.kid-karate.com

Along with that, we have something for the adults…

CARDIO-KICKBOXING is now here! Starting Next week, we will be launching our Cardio Kickboxing program. So if you are interested, be sure to fill out the following form to reserve your spot in our very special FREE WEEK of CARDIO-KICKBOXING!

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Well, we look forward in seeing you in class!

Master Jeff Barnes

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Sitting at home wondering if you are doing your form correctly?

Would you like some personal help with your training?

Do you wonder if you are ready to test?

How would you know without an qualified instructor helping you? Well,  I
am excited to tell you about our new offering available to students…

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*Martial Arts
*Health and Wellness
*Energy Development
*Fu Mo (healing touch)
*Law Enforcement techniques
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*History

*Specific Questions or Methods… any related topic!

Only $15 per 15 minutes!

The idea here is to genuinely help you achieve your goals at Community Martial arts.

Here is how it works…

How it works:

1. Download Skype for free
2. Register for a 15 minute time slot
3. You will receive a confirmation of availability.
4. At that confirmed time sit in front of your computer for the live video conference.

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Never Limit What You Think You Can Do

Know Your Limits…

bleh. Reach beyond them

Due to changes in her school schedule, travel and time constraints our previous and wonderful yoga instructor sadly said goodbye to Community Martial Arts. Of course this left me in a conundrum. The Yoga class isn’t a huge class but has a few dedicated individuals who truly love being in the Yoga class.

I didn’t have a replacement.

But…I have done yoga for a few years personally and for several years it was a part of our training regimen for warm up before class in the adult program.

I could have said… well, this isn’t going well so we can just cut the class. But I know that there are genuine benefits to Yoga. It is extremely beneficial for so many things.

If you have never tried it before, you would be amazed at what Yoga can do for your body. Not only will you strengthen and tone your body, you will also lose weight and feel great.

A typical Yoga class involves slow gentle movements, holding postures, and finishing with a few minutes of relaxed meditation. All of which take the body gently step by step into a gradual progression of intensity and cool down. I always feel great afterwards.

As of late, I have had lots of digestive trouble. I have had to change my diet over to Vegetarianism which has seemed to do the trick. I also needed to add more exercise into my regimen. I could say that I am too busy. I could say that I don’t look like your average spunky supermodel-esque yoga instructor. It doesn’t matter. I am going to exceed my own limits and teach Yoga. You never know what you can achieve until you reach beyond yourself!

Yoga is hugely beneficial for martial artists as well! The Yoga program is a scientific sequence designed to improve martial arts and self defense movements with an emphasis on defeating the ego, your first opponent in any fight.

That is why I am giving away a HUGE SPECIAL to all my students…

Yoga is FREE FOR ONE MONTH

Just show up to classes on Monday or Wednesday at 5:30 PM

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On January 20th we had a momentous day in history. We have the first African American President. No matter what side of the fence you prescribe to politically, you still con appreciate the historical significance of such an event.

Here is a video clip of the many things that are going on at the Mount Vernon school. You will get to see our Lil’ Ninjas class, Tae Kwon Do, Kids Kung Fu and our Boxing program.

There is absolutely something for everyone at Community Martial Arts.

“You would have missed it in your hurry to get your web page out to the world…”

One of the magic bullets in your arsenal of web marketing comes from a fairly obvious but often overlooked piece of web page development. The secret is hidden behind images.

Images convey a feeling or perspective. It is something that we hope that our readers will find appealing or relate with. We use images to set our brand so our customers know who or what we are about. Images help break up the text and entice our customers to read further and gain more information. We want our customers to stay on our website for an extended amount of time to give us the opportunity to either get information from them or to sell something to them.

That information is probably not new to you. However, it is important that you do have images on your website because along with all the benefits of images I listed above, there is the magic bullets that I wanted to talk about.

When you start to add images to your website, I recommend the following:

Rename your images to help add search engine friendly keywords - Remember search engines ‘READ’ your website to grab all the text and information and stores it in a database. When you search for a particular query, your ranking on the search engine is partially reflected by the number of words on your webpage that match the search query. So, rename your images to match the target market you are trying to reach.

For example:

Target Market: Martial Arts Evansville
Image: A Girl Throwing a Side Kick

So when I edit the Image Tag on the web page I would rename the image to a search friendly name. I have highlighted my image name in red for you. Mind you that you really have to change the name of the image that you are using, not just changing the name in the HTML.

img style=”width: 200px; height: 200px;”
src=”martial_arts_evansville_indiana.jpg“

The second piece I add is information for alternative text in the image tag . For the longest time I never worried about filling anything in the “alt text” box that was presented to me in my favorite web editing tools. Most of the time I was in a hurry or on a deadline. This often resulted in poor search returns for my website. After implementing this secret to my websites, it has dramatically improved my search engine placement due to have a greater mix of the key words in my web page documents.

Continuing my example from above, lets add some key words into our image tag. I have highlighted the added change in red for you.

img style=”width: 200px; height: 200px;”
alt=”martial arts evansville indiana self defense karate judo“
src=”martial_arts_evansville_indiana.jpg“

Adding these quick and easy changes to your website will definitely improve your search engine performance. Take some time this week to look at your website and see where you can make these easy changes. While it will take some time to rename your images and have them reflected on your website, I guarantee the effort is well worth it.