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May membership drive: three ways to win!
START A ROUGH ‘N’ TUMBLE CLUB IN YOUR TOWN. No experience necessary! What’s the hold-up? Afraid running a club will interfere with your TikTok doom scrolling? Sign up in the distance learning program and start a club today! Make friends. Sweat. Get stronger inside and out. What’s not to love? As always, we’ll support you every step of the way. We’ll give you advice, send you templates for flyers, and so on. But if you do it this month, we’ll even send you a get started box with business cards, t-shirts, a Heritage Arts flag, and a table banner for events! Email mitch@heritageartsinc.com to get started!
BRING A FRIEND, EARN A FEAT AND GET A FREE SHIRT. Distance learners: if you get a friend to sign up, you’ll earn a feat in the program and you’ll both get a free shirt. Just tell them to put your name in the “referred by” slot on the application. Members in the RVA club, bring a friend and the same goes for you!
HOMECOMING BONUS. Attention previous distance learners who had to drop out: re-start this month and you can pick up right where you left off. If you were in the program before we had bandana ranks, we’ll evaluate your progress since then, award you the appropriate bandana rank, and get you back into the program. And we’ll send you a free shirt to boot! Email mitch@heritageartsinc.com to get re-started!
METTLE MAKER #497: martial tonic
ton·ic (TAHN-ik) An invigorating, refreshing, or restorative agent or influence: Laughter was a tonic for the dispirited team.
I work out at 5:30 AM. Sometimes I’m still a little fuzzy, and I’m not sure what I should work on. Other times I have 20 minutes of free time and I feel like I could use a pick-me-up session. This is where my “martial tonic” routine comes in handy.
I’m a little nerdy and somewhat whacko, so I use dice. Being a martial artist is about being okay with chaos, and dice add an element of randomness that can be annoying. If I roll something I don’t feel like doing, the dice just say, “Tough crap whiney-hiney. Do the things.”
But you don’t need to put up with dice that mouth off at you at 5:30 AM. You can just use the chart below and cycle through them, picking one activity from each row. Why do some of them duplicate? Because there are six face on a die, and some stuff is more important than other stuff.
What is the stuff in the chart? I hope most of this is self-explanatory. But if it isn’t, search our YouTube channel for the particulars, or Click here to sign up today for our distance learning program!
| STRIKING | 100 kicks | Shadowbox | Heavybag | 100 kicks | Double-end Ball | Heavybag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCUFFLING | Mobility drills | Grappling grippers | Throwing dummy | Falls | Floorbag | Elastic grappling |
| WRESTLING | Floorbag | Floor work | Shadow wrestling | Sprawls, Get-ups, etc. | Water barrel | Shadow wrestling |
Sacred Reading for sunday 5/17
Lectio Divina is an ancient way to interact with the Bible. Its four elements are reading, meditation, contemplation, and prayer. Click here for the Sunday Lectio exercise.
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