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March, 2002 Message from Master Eric Sbarge
Balance is important in all things. Volunteering and helping with the construction of our new center are good wu-de. Keeping up with your training and maintaining your health is common sense. Work will be ongoing seven days a week and the schedule at the existing center will continue as it has been with the necessary extra effort from everyone. Special Announcements Message From Grandmaster Hello and Thank You! 
I received your kind remembrance and wish to thank each of you for your kind thoughts on this Chinese New Year. Each year we take the time to remember and thank those who are dear to our hearts by giving a Red Envelope. Martial Arts teachers teach out of love for the arts and their students. You have filled my heart with love to go another year, and I thank you. Let me again wish each of you nothing but good fortune for the new year and I congratulate those of you who have been added to our family tree for the first time. For those who were promoted to higher levels, a hearty congratulations to you for a job well done on your way upward on our family tree. My hope is that all of you will reach the top most branches of this tree to help insure that our art will survive for generations to come. You are all our hope for the future of Shao-lin. Buddha Bless Each of You Ma Sifu
Students Promoted During New Year Bash
Charles Butler Equally deserving, what a tribute to our school to see so many students working hard and completing their first year to become formally accepted as students of the martial arts, recognized here, and by our parent, the American Center for Chinese Studies. Congratulations also to:
Workshops and Special Events
Fifth Annual Mind and Body Fitness Festival
What's Up?
Student Discussion 
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Support Chinese Martial Arts Membership is just $20 per year, which can be paid in installments of $10 per six months. Applications are in the front office, and Sifu asks that all students who are able to, support this growing organization for the promotion of Chinese martial arts. You will receive a membership card three to four weeks after sending in your application. Thank you. Volunteering Attention - a new way to help The Peaceful Dragon is here. For those who have wanted to help and could never figure out how, here's your chance. We have centralized the volunteer information board by locating it above the attendance computer outside the doors to Studios A and B. At a glance, you will be able to tell what needs your help, when it needs to be done and where you can apply your specific talents to help our school look great and run smoothly. With all the new and exciting things happening at the kwoon, we need everyone's help. Don't leave it all for others to do...check the board regularly and help all you can. Dragon Classified Ads NOW vitamins, minerals and food supplements are available by order the 1st of each month at unbeatable prices. The value of these products in our stressful lives is pretty unbeatable too. See Debra. My Peaceful Dragon Experience
It Turned Out They Had Hot Chocolate My dad had been taking classes for a few months at this "new place." He said he enjoyed it, it wasn't fast and speedy like karate, it was slow, but powerful. Something called Tai Chi! I personally could care less.
He said they had a teahouse, but I didn't like tea. He somehow managed to convince me to go and watch a class. It turned out they had hot chocolate. This wasn't so bad after all! I watched the Tai Chi class and drank my hot chocolate. It was nice, somewhat relaxing. I came back the next week and then the next week. It became a weekly routine. The friendly man behind the counter, whom I came to know as Wes, continued to dress up my hot chocolate with whipped cream, cinnamon, and even chocolate shavings. My dad informed me there was a kids' class, but I thought if it was as slow as Tai Chi, I would die. Again, he assured me it might be neat and talked me into going to watch. My mom took me and we sat outside the glass window staring into studio A with complete astonishment! Two petite Vietnamese identical twins were outdoing the whole class! The competitor inside me wanted to try. I hadn't done anything physical since I had broken the growth plate in my wrist ice-skating in the first grade! I decided to give it a shot. I can still vividly remember my first class. Lynn was teaching. I was extremely nervous, but her kind smile and reassurance helped to relax me. Class was hard, and by the end my muscles were aching, but it was fun! That was almost four years ago. The Peaceful Dragon is so much more than a cultural center where people briefly get together during the week and then part ways. It is a place where people go to have good health, make friends, and laugh. Once you start, if you stick with it, you get totally involved. It becomes your home away from home. It becomes your family. So, thank you to Sifu, Debra, and all the rest of my Peaceful Dragon family for making my Peaceful Dragon experience the best experience of my life. To contact The Peaceful Dragon: Call: (704)-544-1012
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Grading is complete and foundation work is progressing. In a
couple of short weeks, we are going to need your help. See
special announcements and volunteering for some of the ways you
can support this effort.
As you should be aware, the mission of The American Center for
Chinese Studies, our parent organization, is to promote and pass
on the traditional arts, especially martial arts, of China. We,
as members of a traditional kwoon, have an opportunity to express
our support of traditional Chinese arts by becoming members of
CACMA, the Carolinas Association for Chinese Martial Arts, of
which Sifu is a founding member.
