Albuquerque Karate - Takai Mine Tae Kwon Do and Karate

Day	Time	Class
Monday	4:00-5:00 p.m.	Green Belt & Above - All Ages
	5:00-5:50 p.m.	Olympic Sparring & Kicking Drills
	6:00-6:50 p.m.	Beginning/Intermediate Class - All Ages
	7:00-7:50 p.m.	Specialty Class Kali/Escrima Weapons & Disarming

Tuesday	4:30-5:20 p.m.	White-Yellow - All Ages
	5:30-6:20 p.m.	Green & Above - All Ages
	6:30-7:20 p.m.	Sparring & Sparring Drills - Mixed Belts Age 12 and Above

Wednesday	4:00-4:50 p.m.	Green Belts & Above - All Ages
	5:00-5:50 p.m.	White-Yellow Belt - Children
	5:00-5:30 p.m.	Little Griffin's Class - Age 5 and Under
	6:00-6:50 p.m.	Beginning/Intermediate Class - All Ages
NEW!	7:00-8:00 p.m.	Specialty Class Jui-Jitsu Class*

Thursday	4:30-5:20 p.m.	White-Yellow Belt - All Ages
	5:30-6:20 p.m.	Green and Above - All Ages
	6:30-7:20 p.m.	Purple and Above - All Ages
1st Th of Month	6:30-7:20 p.m.	FREE Weapons Class (Orange & Above, Bring Weapon) *

Friday	5:00-5:50 p.m.	Beginners - All Ages - Conditioning/Kicking
	5:00-5:30 p.m.	Little Griffin's Class - Age 5 and Under
	6:00-6:50 p.m.	Intermediate/Advanced - All Ages - Conditioning/Kicking

Saturday	9:30-10:20 a.m.	Blue Belt and above - All Ages
	10:30-11:20 a.m.	White - Yellow - Green Belt - All Ages
	11:30-12:20 p.m.	Sparring - All Ages

Sunday	No Classes

*Specialty Classes require additional registration

* Specialty Weapons Class held on the 1st Thursday of each month. Buy your weapon through the studio and bring to class.

Current Weapon Trained - "Tonfas" Tonfa Training

The origin of the Tonfa is debated but experts believe it either originated in China or Indonesia. It is used in both Southeast Asian and Chinese martial arts and was possibly brought to Okinawa through their influence. A similar weapon called the mae sun sawk is used in Thailand. Tradition holds that during the reign of Okinawan ruler Sho Shin, restrictions were placed on the use of weaponry in order to stabilize the country after a period of civil war. This restriction is said to have favoured the development of unconventional agricultural tools as weapons of self-defense. In this context, it is believed that the tonfa was developed from a wooden handle of a millstone, a common agricultural implement much like the kama.