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Black Sash Club and Leadership Club

About the Black Sash Club

Our Black Sash Club is a prestigious training program offering a top-notch curriculum and outstanding instruction to help guide your child all the way to the level of Black Sash.

8 Special Benefits available to all Black Sash Club members:

1. Weekly intensive Black Sash Club curriculum
   Integrated into the weekly classes, special Black Sash Club activities will challenge your child at the highest level and maximize martial arts success.
2. Option of taking three regular group classes per week
   Option of enhancing skills by coming to three regular classes per week, instead of just two.
3. Special advanced classes for Black Sash Club students only
   Option of significantly increasing skills by joining weekly Intensive Forms Class (Orange Sash and above) and weekly Sparring Class (Green Sash and above) with Master Eric Sbarge.
4. Eligibility for Peaceful Dragon Demo
   Team Demonstration team performs martial arts and Lion Dances both at The Peaceful Dragon and at special public events, helping students develop confidence and self-esteem.
5. Exciting classes in traditional Chinese Lion Dancing
   Your child will build important team work skills, fitness and agility while having great fun.
6. Use of training equipment and facilities even outside of class time
   Maximize your child's practice results using our top-of-the-line facilities and equipment.
7. Eligibility for exciting kungfu weapons training in regular classes
   Helps your child develop a high level of coordination, agility and self control - and kids love it!
8. Special Black Sash Club uniform
   To recognize those who have pledged their "Committed to Excellence," worn exclusively by Black Sash Club members.

Requirements to Join

The Black Sash Club is open to Little Dragons age 5 to 8, and Young Dragons age 9 to 13. To be eligible, the following requirements must all have been met.

The student must:

1. Successfully be promoted to White Sash Level Two or above.
2. Be recommended by his or her instructors (based on good behavior and genuine effort in class)
3. Have steady attendance (minimum of eight classes per month)
4. Demonstrate positive conduct at home and at school as confirmed by the parent
5. Have earned at least six stars on the "New Student Superstars" wall chart
6. Have application form turned in by assigned deadline, and approved by student's instructors and our Head Instructor, Master Eric Sbarge.

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Ongoing Membership Requirements

Positive conduct and effort must be displayed while training at The Peaceful Dragon, while at home, while at school and in public. A Black Sash Club member represents the ideals of The Peaceful Dragon and must live up to those ideals. Mistakes can be made, but they must be corrected with humility and the desire to improve. Students who repeatedly fail to display the ideals of the Black Sash Club will have their membership rescinded.

As a member of the Black Sash Club, every effort should be made to actively contribute to our school since one's strength and success in martial arts is dependent on the strength and success of one's school. Members should volunteer on clean-up and maintenance days or with other school activities; make every effort to attend Peaceful Dragon functions that are designated for children; consider joining the Lion Dance and Demo Team to display and help others learn about our martial arts program; and regularly promote our school to friends and contacts and encourage them to come visit.

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The Black Sash Club Pledge

I pledge to make the "Commitment to Excellence" needed to earn my Black Sash and will be an honorable and exemplary member of The Peaceful Dragon's Black Sash Club.

I agree to the following:

1. I will train hard until I have achieved the skills and positive qualities needed to earn my Black Sash.
2. I will always give the greatest effort possible in my martial arts classes, at school and in my responsibilities at home.
3. I will use my skills and strength only to improve myself, never to harm others.
4. I will remain respectful and loyal to my instructors, fellow students, and parents at The Peaceful Dragon.
5. I will demonstrate good conduct and behavior at school and at home.
6. I will only choose and keep friends who share my positive values and good behavior.
7. I will strive to be compassionate and helpful to everyone I meet.
8. I will strengthen my good habits and overcome my bad habits and weaknesses.
9. I will volunteer and contribute when ever I can to help The Peaceful Dragon be the best martial arts school possible.
10. I understand that earning a Black Sash is not the goal. The goal is being the greatest person I can be - and the Black Sash is my reward for being that great person.

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About the Leadership Club

The Leadership Club is our premier training program for children here at The Peaceful Dragon. In addition to all of the great martial arts benefits included in the Black Sash Club, the Leadership Club offers intensive training in Leadership Skills and Success Principles. This kind of training cannot be found in public or private schools, or through other extra-curricular activities.

6 Extra Special Benefits of the Leadership Club:

1. Intensive training and coaching in leadership and success principles.
   Created by Master Eric Sbarge, the curriculum will draw from ancient leadership classics including Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Musashi's Book of 5 Rings; modern business and organizational classics such as Stephen R. Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and books by Napoleon Hill, Dan Kennedy, and the like; and books and articles by leading athletes and coaches
2. Seminars will be led by Master Eric Sbarge and our professional staff
   Each month your child will learn important secrets and skills of persuasion, leadership and success directly from Master Sbarge. Each seminar will be a full hour long. The monthly Leadership Club seminar is held on Saturday afternoons. 
3. 15 Minutes of extra intensive leadership club training added on to each class
   Your child will be taught valuable Leadership Lessons throughout the week plus learn advanced kung fu skills reserved only for Leadership Club members.
4. Hands-On leadership experience
   Your child will actually implement and practice the leadership skills learned in the seminars by promotion to an Assistant to the Instructor in our children's martial arts program. Once the purple sash is earned, your child will be assigned a martial arts class to assist in.
5. Confidence built by improvement and success
   As your child assists our professional instructors in one of our regular martial arts classes, the instructor will provide guidance, mentoring and constructive feedback on your child's teaching skills and leadership performance.
6. Success and Leadership in all walks of life
   The universal nature and adaptability of the principles of leadership will be explored with students, helping them bring their skills to all endeavors throughout high school, college and future careers.
7. Special Leadership Club uniform
   To recognize those who have pledged their "Commitment to Leadership and Success" a dark purple t-shirt with the above slogan will be worn with pride exclusively by Leadership Club members.

Leadership Club Eligibility Requirements

The Leadership Club is open to Young Dragons age 9 to 13, and to teens in our Adult Kungfu Program aged 14-15. To be eligible, all of the requirements for Black Sash Club must be fulfilled (except item #5 for teens in adult program), plus the Leadership Club portion of the application form must have been carefully completed.