Mayako striving to break with Axe Kick On Friday March 2, 2012 eligible Taekwondo students had their belt test to prove their knowledge and techniques that they have obtained within the last three months since …Read More
Ankle Roll
No no, this is not a new workout or new MMA technique. Catchy title though right? I like this “Ankle Roll” title, sounds like a new technique or some sushi, LOL. Since I have injured …Read More
7th Annual U.S. Masters Open Tournament
On November 6th, 2011 Sunday the following students competed in the 7th Annual U.S. Masters Open tournament. It was the first tournament for Pedro, Esteven and Ava and they did an outstanding job! For Slim, …Read More
New Workout site available!
Hi everyone! I have the new area where I have copied the existing workouts! Please register at the www.coopersmartialarts.org/Workouts. (You need to make sure that W for Workout is capitalized). All of the previous workout …Read More
Wanna get an idea of calories burned in our class?
For about a month or so, I’ve dedicated myself to wearing a heart rate monitor while I was taking the class. I highly recommend that you wear a heart rate monitor to our class such …Read More
June 30, 2011 Thur: TKD and Kickboxing 325 & 612 calories
As usual, I’ve skipped the warm-up run (fist 15 minutes) of the TKD Kicking drill class and warmed up with focus to my knee and did 30 minutes of TKD kicking drills but I had …Read More
June 29, 2011 Wed: Combat Training 502 calories
Today’s Combat Training class we spent first 15 minutes warm ups that consisted of core, lower back and our gluteus maximus (you got it! Our Butts) and spent the rest of the class with our …Read More
June 27, 2011 Monday: Taekwondo class 313 and 695 calories
Today I decided to take two of the Taekwondo class. Since I’ve been struggling through my classes due to knee issues, for the first class I’ve skipping the warm-up runs and which consist of first …Read More
June 23, 2011 (Thu) Kicking Boxing class: 45 minutes/560 Calories burned!!
After the completing my 30 minutes of Taekwondo Kicking drill class, I’ve reset my heart rate monitor’s calorie count back to zero and continued onto Kickboxing class and after 45 minutes, I only burned 560 …Read More
June 23, 2011 (Thu) TKD Kicking Drills class: 30 minutes/311 Calories burned!!
Since I skipped the first 15 minutes of the class which consisted of warm run (avoiding running at the moment due to my knee issue), I’m slowly getting back into putting a little bit more …Read More
June 22, 2011 (Wed) Combat Training class: 45 minutes/450 Calories burned!!
I attempted the Combat training class with my bad knee and I pushed myself without compromising my knee and managed to burn 450. calories today. It was an awesome training and worked a lot, just …Read More
June 20, 2011 (Mon) XMA class: 30 minutes/260 Calories burned!!
Hi guys! As you know I have been posting how many calories I am burning for each classes I take at Cooper’s New England Martial Arts mainly out of curiosity and for my own benefit. …Read More
June 16, 2011 (Thu) Kickboxing class: 45 minutes/1000 Calories burned!!
After the Taekwondo kicking drill class, I continued onto the next class which is 45 minute Kickboxing class. I was able to burn a lot more even though again, I had to compensate for my …Read More
June 16, 2011 (Thu) Taekwondo Kicking Drills: 45 minutes/300 Calories burned
I have burned a lot more than that in the same class but today I was dealing with my bad knee and recovering from being sick as I was not feeling well yesterday. To describe …Read More
Rhode Island State Competion 2011 Results
On April 7th, 2011, few of the Cooper’s New England Martial Art students competed in the Rhode Island State Competition. It was a long day and was a bit slow getting the tournament started, so …Read More
Martial art conflicts: have we not changed over the years?
Are you a fan of those old “Kung-fu” or martial art movies where corrupted school’s students who are ordered by their master to go around bashing other school’s reputation and challenging the student’s of the …Read More
Reflecting on 2010
It is now half way through December and I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the year 2010. I want to say that year 2010 was a phenomenal year at Cooper’s …Read More
December 2010 – Takewondo Black Belt Testing
On Saturday 10:00 AM December 11, 2010, Brian Roberts and I began our physical requirements for our Black Belt test. Check out some photos from this day! With only few weeks of training, and between …Read More
December 2010 SOKCS Takewondo Testing
On Saturday December 4th, 2010, selected students of SOKCS had their first belt testing at the Cooper’s New England Martial Arts facility. Check out some photos here! It was delightful to see these children who …Read More
December 2010 NEMA’s Takewondo Testing
On Friday December 3rd 2010, selected NEMA TKD color belt students had their belt test! All the excitement had already began at Cooper’s New England Martial Arts!! Belt test, betl test and more belt test!!! …Read More