Jan 13, 2026 | Latest News
Week Two: Belt Testing Qualification & Black Belt Binders Happy Monday and welcome to week two of our January teaching cycle! What to Expect This Week Week two is when we start qualifying students for belt testing. We’ll be teaching new material, and...
Jan 6, 2026 | Latest News
2026 is here and our January Teaching Cycle has begun! I hope you are returned rested and refreshed from Winter Break and are ready to continue your martial arts journey to Black Belt and Beyond. All classes meet as usual. Stay tuned for details on upcoming Special...
Jan 2, 2026 | Latest News
Happy Friday! “SOFT” RE-OPENING TOMORROW MORNING (Week 0) Tomorrow morning, we will resume our Saturday class schedule for our first classes of 2026. If you are back from you vacation and would like to get some training in, tomorrow will be an excellent...
Dec 15, 2025 | Latest News
Jul 10, 2025 | Latest News
Our Powerful Word for July is EXCELLENCE, “consistently striving towards our personal best in order to reach our own potential.” Good & Bad Houses, Healthy & Unhealthy Bodies Leading up to buying my first home, I discovered that not all homes were built to the...
Jun 25, 2025 | Latest News
Escaping from Holds: Pessimism, Realism, and Optimism Our Powerful Word this month is OPTIMISM, a word and an idea that all-too-often is misunderstood. Here is an example of optimism in action and what being optimistic allows to come into being. One of the first...
Jun 2, 2025 | Latest News
Welcome to June 2025 In celebration of Father’s Day this month, SMAA is hosting a series of Free Safety Training Sessions just for dads. One of dad’s main roles in the family is PROTECTOR and in these sessions we will give you the skills you need to keep...
May 28, 2025 | Latest News
The Karate Kid Is Back On May 30th the movie, The Karate Kid: Legends, opens in theaters nationwide, approximately 40 years since the original The Karate Kid movie. The Karate Kid spawned two sequels, then a third with Hillary Swank as a female karate kid, a remake in...
Mar 20, 2025 | Latest News
CORRECTION: I Did NOT Fall Off of a Ladder It being Spring Break for most of our students, I thought this the perfect time to re-paint the school and to do some much-needed spring cleaning. The paint job had been going along nicely, until yesterday when I had to get...
Mar 11, 2025 | Latest News
Our Powerful Word this month is Impulse Control, and learning to control one’s impulses is one of the primary reasons parents bring their children to Scornavacco Martial Arts Academy. First, what do we mean when we say, impulse control? Impulse control does NOT...
