Paragon Today

When a 3-Time World Champ and a National Champion get together to train the champions of the future it’s called “ATA Champ Camp.”  Champ Camp is a high level, intense training week for those who are in Top Ten or gearing-up for the coming tournament year. Now a few days of “down time” and off to World Championships.

Currently Paragon has 10 ATA World and National Champions. Hopefully, someone from this group will be Paragon’s next …

• “The difference between a ‘winner’ and a ‘champion?’
• A winner walks away with a trophy. A champion walks away with respect.
• Be both, but most important, be the champion in your ring!”
•                                                     Master William Hauptman

• Pictured with Master Jody Horn and Ms. Lura Roberts: Alison Clarke, Connor Mattivi, Emma Adams, Nathan Deneau, Nicholas Wolf, Andrew Wolf, Joseph Grobarcik, Joey Salazar, Grant Salazar, Greta Duvenhage. Not pictured: Micah Martin

Master Hauptman, Master Horn and Ms. Roberts got together with 170 of their ATA students from 6 Paragon Martial Arts schools around Denver to attend the opening day of the Karate Kid movie in Evergreen on Saturday, July 12th. Students from Evergreen, Stapleton, Conifer, Green Mountain, Lakewood, and Bailey made the journey to help kick off the movie. Emma Adams, Chief Instructor from Evergreen commented, “The theater has a capacity of 190 people and they were all paragon! Some kids came in costume and lots of popcorn was thrown when the evil Cheng was on the screen.”

The only hitch during the movie was when a storm caused a power surge and the movie stopped for a few minutes. Master Horn jumped out of his seat to quickly fix it. Luckily, it was during the tournament portion of the movie and Master Horn thinks he knows a thing or two about tournaments, making him qualified to fix the projector? Also in attendance were, David Polites, 4th Degree Black Belt, Ms. Krystle Willey, Head Instructor from Lakewood, Mr. Micah Martin, Head Instructor from Stapleton and Ms. Emma Adams, Chief Instructor from Evergreen.

Preperations are underway to invade the theater again for the Last Air Bender!

• High Rank Testing from 7 Paragon Martial Arts schools and clubs in Colorado

Over 60 Paragon Black Belts from 7 Colorado Paragon schools and clubs gathered at the Denver West Marriott for the organization’s 58th Black Belt Testing. 26 Paragon students earned the rank of Paragon Black Belt during the testing. Paragon martial Arts is Colorado’s largest ATA school network. Members of the American Taekwondo Association, the group has quickly grown to 9 current and future locations in the Denver front range.

• NEW PARAGON BLACK BELTS: Cathy Clark, Jeff Radcliff, Christy Williamsen, Jack Winters, Seth Endsely, Kai Rebollo, Paige Radcliff, Maddy Chong, Helena Kragel, Matthew Kragel, Andrea Schuetter, Anne Shrum, Kyle Butler, Cooper Brooks, Riley Costello, Wyatt Gomes, Jesse Boyne, Rachel Elander, Preston Troxel, Isaac Martin, Maggie Boyne, Sean Mueller, Jeremiah Martin, Hannah Martin, Anthony Cooper, Bryan Muir

 

New 2nd Degree Decided Black Belts
Davis Stockholm & Connor Mattivi

New 2nd Degree Recommended Black Belts
Eli Born, Wesley Boyne, Laura Gill, Tiffany Haag, Micah Martin, Kimo Rebollo, Tavin Reinhardt

New 3rd Degree Black Belt

Nathan Deneau

DEMONTRATIONS!

The Paragon Testers were honored by two visiting schools and teams who performed. Both were exceptional demonstrations of XMA skills. Extreme Martial Arts (XMA) is a fast growing sport that combines the power the martial arts and flash of acrobatics.

• Action Family Martial Arts, Team X-Out

• Daniel Perez, Team Captain, Aeroforme
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PARAGON LEADERSHIP TEAM WORKOUT

Te success of any organization is it’s leadership. Over 40 Paragon leaders got together before the testing to discuss the organization’s teaching methods and future. Taught by Master William Hauptman, Master Joel Bass, Master Jody Horn and Ms. Lura Roberts, the workout was a high level instructional seminar.

• Ms. Roberts leading a part of the group through some cutting edge instructional material

• Master Joel Bass and the Fort Collins Paragon leadership team accept the H.U. Lee Standard of Excellence Award. Paragon’s highest honor for the school or club that has the most growth since the last leadership workout. With 28 new students in the last few months, Fort Collins Paragon continues to grow quickly in the Fort Collins market. They are opening a new Paragon Martial Arts location in Loveland in July of 2010.
  
  

ACTION

Mostly the evening was filled with action! A Paragon parent and professional architectural photographer, Mr. Mark Mattivi caught these images throughout the evening. You can view Mark’s professional work at www.MarkMattiviPhoto.com

PARAGON MARTIAL ARTS
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303-838-8533 Conifer
303-838-8533 Bailey
303-928-0043 Stapleton
970-744-8862 Fort Collins
303-986-5500 Lakewood
303-968-5500 Green Mountain Rec. Center
www.ParagonKarate.com

Paragon Martial Arts, Stapleton had its very first kick-athon on Thursday, May 6th! The advanced karate kids class did over 10,000 kicks to help raise money for The Pilsung Youth Initiative! Great job to everyone! The Pilsung Youth Initiative is a 501(c)(3) charity that provides tuition assistance for underprivileged and at-risk youth to enroll in martial arts classes. Paragon Stapleton is a member school of this non-profit group! Conratulations to everyone who helped raise money!

Micah Martin
Head Instructor

Paragon Martial Arts

Stapleton, CO

303-928-0043

Paragon Martial Arts had six members, Joel Bass, Jody Horn, Lura Roberts, Emma Adams, Allison Clark, & Andrew Wolf, attend the National Black Belt Camp in Iowa.  The black belt camp only, which had over 190 black belts attending, was hosted by eight degree black belts Chief Master Jager and Chief Master Hoover.  Of the 190 black belts attending camp, twenty plus where 5^th degrees with nine 6th degrees and two 8th degrees.  As most of you know, Chief Master Jager is our most senior instructor and everyone in Paragon Martial Arts can trace their instructor line back to Master Jager.

The camp started on Friday evening and ended on Saturday night with a banquet dinner and awards ceremony.  As staff members, Mr. Bass, Mr. Horn, & Ms. Roberts work alongside other Masters teaching classes from sparring to practical self-defense.  However, Emma Adams, Allison Clark & Andrew Wolf, worked the hardest by participating in every class offered at the camp.  Of course these three leaders in Paragon shined in every class and represented Paragon Martial Arts extremely well.

The Colorado crew would like to express our thanks and gratitude towards Master Jager and Master Hoover for having us at camp.  We all came home with many new ideas for our own schools and are looking forward to sharing our experiences at the camp.  The best thing about our martial arts community is that we are all family and the National camp in Iowa is no exception.  I know we are all looking forward to the next time we can get together with our extended family to train, learn and have another great time.

Submitted by Joel Bass

Paragon Martial Arts – Fort Collins, CO

Over 100 Paragon students demonstrated their
skills at the Evergreen location of Paragon Martial Arts at a Paragon Tournament on Saturday, February 7th. Students from Mr. Bass’ school in Fort Collins, Mr. Horn’s school in Evergreen, Ms. Roberts’ schools in Conifer and Bailey, Ms. Willey’s school in Lakewood and Mr. Martin’s school in Stapleton demonstrated forms, weapons, and sparring for the competition.

“It was very exciting day,” commented Mr. Horn, owner of Evergreen Paragon. “Everyone seemed to be on their game.” Mr. Horn is not stranger to competition with a state Olympic title and three ATA World Champion titles.

“Fort Collins dominated the day,” joked Mr. Joel Bass, Chief Instructor and owner of Fort Collins Paragon, “Fort Collins has earned a place in the Paragon system, and that puts them as some of the best martial artists in Colorado. I was proud of all the competitors on Saturday and especially proud of my Fort Collins champions.”

Ms. Roberts joined Mr. Bass and Mr. Horn in her excitement for the day saying that she was especially proud of the the excellent weapons competition. Ms. Roberts herself being a national weapons champion.

“The day was successful because of the excellent judging of the organization’s leadership teams that came together to make the rings exciting and efficient,” added Ms. Emma Adams, Chief Instructor of Evergreen Paragon, “I put a lot of trust in one of my young instructors, Ms. Alison Clarke, who did a lot of the coordination and set the tone of the day. She stepped up as a leader today and we all owe her a big thank you.”


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*Awesome Students in pictures: Hailey and Hannah Hornberger, Conrad Bernstein, Wells Gwin, Gabby Day, Walker Dougherty