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Show Thursday, October 11. 2007 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 11 Sixteen Omega Martial Arts, located at 875 N. Main Street, in Springville, is proud to announce its annual Black Belt test scheduled on Friday, Oct. 12, and Saturday, Oct. 13. Sixteen students from Springville, Payson and Pleasant Grove will perform per-form their martial art talents tal-ents in hopes to receive the rank of black belt to third dan black belt. This year's black belt test is open to the public starting at 6 p.m. on Friday Fri-day and 9 a.m. on Saturday. Satur-day. During the three-hour" three-hour" Friday evening test, students present their written materials and basic forms. Saturday's test will showcase upper up-per ranking taekwondo forms, weapon forms, individual in-dividual creative, martial art demonstrations, judo throwing and falling, self defense techniques, sparring, spar-ring, board and brick breaking, and the gauntlet gaunt-let - which is the final 10-hour 10-hour test of mental and physical technique and endurance. "We have a very unique, tight-knit group of black belt candidates testing this year. The Springville students have created a nine person synchronized synchro-nized demonstration that t 1MJ These students are all testing for black belt this year at Omega Martial Arts, except Carla who broke They are, from left to right: Maddy Morris, Stacy James, Martin Bradshaw, Tanner Wilson, Sarah Bennett and Troy Young. Photo by Darren Atkinson Orchestra Continued from page 12 tribute to veterans and public servants," said Sam Tsugawa, orchestra orches-tra director at SHS. "We want to honor the people who serve our community communi-ty and country. We especially espe-cially invite all veterans and public servants to attend at-tend this concert and enjoy en-joy the music as our gift to them." The fund-raising feature fea-ture of the program will be separate from the concert con-cert which is, as always, DODYSMOP PRACTICES ORP,1 574 N State St Orem, 84057 124-1911 : " : ' HOURS S AM -6:00PM PROVO 355 E. 900 S. Provo, 84606 (;;;31)3?7 mi HOURS 7:30 AM -5:30 PM SfitMv 9:00-12:00 Suii(Jy - Closed Credit Cards Accepted I.I " MP ' black belt candidates testing in Springville they will be performing on Saturday morning as a tribute to their instructors instruc-tors and the students they teach. I have trained and challenged this powerful group of students over the last four to five years and seen their strength, self-confidence, and skill grow. I am confident in their experience and knowledge to instruct others and to run their own programs at Omega," Ome-ga," said Richard Davis, owner and head instructor instruc-tor of Omega Martial Arts in Springville. "Please come and watch their performances on Saturday." Omega Martial Art black belt candidates testing from Springville: Maddy Morris, black belt; Martin Bradsaw, black belt; Stacy James, black belt; Troy Young, black belt; C.J. Giles, 1st dan black belt; Eric Soto, 1st dan black beit; Sarah Hinkley, 2nd dan black belt; and Tanner Wilson, 2nd dan black belt. It takes martial artists four to five years to earn a 1st dan black belt in the Omega system. Black belt candidacy begins with a formal presentation in February followed by five four-hour pre-testing 1 I free and open to the public. pub-lic. Both goods and services ser-vices will be available for the silent auction bids, which will close at 7:20, just prior to the start of the concert. The concert will last until about 8:15 when the auction items will be awarded to the winning bidders. Being accepted as one of the 15 orchestras from across the nation to participate par-ticipate in the National Orchestra Festival is a great honor for the SHS jf t r - r v I I sessions given by high ranking black belt judges to verify the candidates' knowledge of the system. The final black belt test is a two-day culmination in front of an Omega black belt board. The Omega black belt board consists of president presi-dent and grand master Dr. Davis 10th degree, shihan Pano Pederas 7th degree, shihan Jan Davis 6th degree, master Jason Davis 5th degree, kwan-jangnim kwan-jangnim Richard Davis 4th degree, and kwan-jangnim kwan-jangnim Jenny Jarvis 4th degree. The test will be held at Omega Martial Arts located at 875 N. Main Street, Springville. For questions, please call 801-491-8542. Founded in 1987, Omega Ome-ga Martial Arts Utah is part of Omega Karate Schools, based in Colorado, Colo-rado, and is accredited with North American Tae Kwon Do Organization (NATO). Omega Martial Arts teaches a hybrid of Tae Kwon Do, Jiu Jitsu, Self Defense, Weapons, Judo, Sparring and Hap-kido Hap-kido in order to create a well-rounded martial artist. Its instructors are known for their superior technique and diverse J . V; Philharmonic Orchestra. This is the second time the SHS Philharmonic group has been chosen to participate in this festival, which is held in conjunction conjunc-tion with the American String Teachers Association Associa-tion annual conference. The orchestras will be evaluated by leading adjudicators ad-judicators from across the nation and be able to participate in clinics and master classes conducted by the profession's leading lead-ing orchestra clinicians. ft Sixteen students at Omega Martial Arts will test for their black belt this week. Some of them are, from left to right: Martin Bradshaw, Troy Young, Stacy James, Tanner Wilson, Maddy Morris and Sarah Hinkley. Flying overhead is CJ. Giles. Photo by Darren Atkinson martial art expertise and its programs are designed to motivate students toward to-ward respect and excellence. excel-lence. Omega Martial Arts has dojangs (or schools) in Springville, Payson, and Pleasant Grove. If you can't feed a hundred hun-dred people, then feed just one. - Mother Teresa The days that make us happy, make us wise. - John Masefield i : her knee fighting at a tournament Hinkley, CJ. Giles, Eric Soto, Carla The SHS orchestra previously pre-viously attended the National Na-tional Orchestra Festival held in Reno in 2005. Parent volunteers and students are currently soliciting goods and services ser-vices to be auctioned at the fund-raising event. 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