CCHS Karate Welcomes Sensei Mike DiPietro

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The CCHS Karate Club was honored to have such a decorated black belt such as Sensei Mike DiPietro instruct last night. Sensei DiPietro is currently a 6th degree black belt in Kyokushin Karate and brought over 28 years of experience and knowledge with him to our class.



Sensei DiPietro shared some of his special conditioning exercises to help strengthen the body in preparation for kumite. Some students have already acknowleged some soreness and fatigue from such a great workout last night. Sensei DiPietro's class marked the last class of the year at CCHS.

Some students have been invited by Hanshi Larry Giordano to train at the Methuen Karate Association and I hope they take him up on this offer. Training at the Methuen Dojo is a priviledge that everyone should take part in.





The next event will be our annual Beach Training/Family Outing scuedled for this Sunday June 6th. Last year's event was fantastic...I believe we had 8 students train at Salisbury Beach last June, so I'm hoping to at least double it this year! A new and excited part of this year's Beach Training session will be handing out Varsity/JV letters to club members who have earned them. The step from club status to a varsity sport has improved the development of my students and increased the intensity of their training.

I'm so proud of all of the CCHS Karate students and how much they've put into improving themselves over the past 2 years!

Osu!

Sensei

Central Catholic High School All Valley Karate Tournament 2010

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On May 15th, the CCHS Karate Club hosted the First Annual All Valley Karate Tournament. Incredibly, there were over 50 competitors and another 50 friends and family members attended the event in support of its competitors.


The CCHS Karate Club was honored to have Hanshi Larry Giordano, several of his black belts from MKA, and his demonstration team from MKA participating and judging during the event. The afternoon started off with a spectacular demonstration of karate techniques, weapons applications, board and block breaking, and self defense techniques.

The tournament itself was a huge success for Central Catholic as well as Methuen Karate. Each group had several fierce competitors in the fighting, forms, and weapons divisions. Central Catholic's Trae Musumarra (Methuen native) captured 1st place in the men's fighting division beating out several higher ranking competitors. In the women's division, Shannon Bradish took home several medals in the advanced division of fighting and forms. Other competitors who stood out for CCHS were: In the men's division - Keegan Shea, Brendan Stolarz, Jessie Alfonso, Ben Maroon, and Brian Silvey. In the women's division - Amy Whitney Perry, Samantha Gilman, Junellie Leon, Michelle Lagrange and Lauren Krugh.

Congratulations to all of these competitors on their success not only in this tournament, but during the course of the entire year!

Osu!

Sensei