TEMPLE MARTIAL ARTS ONLINE

A great big hello to all you TEMPLE TIGERS out there and a huge welcome to the Temple Tigers page.

(For those that know nothing of the Temple Tigers, we are the junior section of Temple Martial Arts - see some of us working hard in the photo.)

This is your page. Tell me what interests you, what you would like to see or read about here. You are welcome to contribute to this page with your own pictures, photos, stories and ideas.

You can hand in any ideas to your instructor, or email me direct.

Meanwhile, train hard and have fun!

The Editor

Richard and Phil were corner ref's with Kath keeping time scores. The rounds were 1min 30 secs with 30secs in the case of a draw.

The following took part:

Dean, Iona, Christopher, John, Aaron, Conner, Grant, Adam, Jordan H, Jamie, Jordan B, Lewis.

The standard was really high with the results in most fights being very close. We did a round robin out of the top 3 for 1st, 2nd, 3rd with points deciding the result. This needed a further fight for 1st place and there was a tie. The extra fight ran into extra time with the decision being made on warnings.

The top four places are:

1st Aaron
2nd Dean
3rd Jordan B
4th= Jordan H
4th= Grant

A paper copy of this web page is also available, so that friends with no internet access can also participate in the Temple Tigers fun. You can download edition 1 of the newsletter here and print it off.

The newsletter is in Adobe Acrobat format. If your browser does not support this, you can download it here (click on the above acrobat image).

Have you made a Deep Impact? And if you have - have you ever made one as wide as a football stadium and several stories deep? This is your chance.

The NASA space agency has a project called "Deep Impact" that involves launching a spacecraft to hit a comet. Hopefully as well as making a big hole, this should allow the inside to be studied for the first time. On that spacecraft will be a CD with the names of everyone who registers with the NASA website. So this is your chance to put your name on a comet.

Also, by coincidence, the name of the comet is "Tempel 1". Traditionally, comets are name after the person that first discovers them, in this case this was the first comet discovered by astronomer Ernst Tempel in 1857. The comet passes through our solar system every five and a half years.

The website will be taking names until January 2004 and the spacecraft is expected to launch in December 2004. The impact is expected to be on 4^th July 2005.

Everyone registering can print off a participation certificate. Press the following button to find out more about the project and to register your name - its free.

How about brightening up your computer desktop with your favourite sport? The above picture, along with a monthly calendar can be downloaded for free.

Picture Puzzle
The classic mix-up puzzle that uses any image you want. The picture is 'cut' into puzzle pieces, scrambled then solved by you..

There is a new television show that's dedicated to kids in the Martial Arts that travels around the USA to top tournaments and we shoot interviews of the kids and the competition.

The show is posted on the Karate Angels site! Go to KarateAngels.com then Tournament Zone, scroll down to the link that says.... Kids Karate Television Online.

There you'll find four links to each of the four parts. You need may need a broadband connection to view it. Hope you like it!

The monks of the Shaolin Temple have recently completed touring the UK with their Kung Fu "Wheel of Life" show. Their cool website has lots of details of the performance, internet video of some of the show as well as screensavers. Its well worth a look.

We can only be impressed by Jackie Chan's martial arts ability in many of his movies. He is probably the most popular and widely known martial arts actor in the movies.

He had a very difficult childhood. His parents left him to attend a Chinese opera school in Hong Kong, while they worked in Australia. There he learnt various forms of Kung Fu under the cruel regime of his school master.

You can find out all about Jackie, his movies, photos, download screensavers and wallpaper as well as lots of other cool stuff at the Official Jackie Chan Website.

Also try the official Jackie Chan Fan Club for Kids website.

Also try http://www.jc-world.co.uk/ - a British fan club website with photos, links, fan club publications, member registration information.

Okay - it's not martial arts, but it is a really funny site. Select from hundreds of funny video clips from StupidVideos.com and try not to fall off your seat laughing! Check out the Evil Penguin, Cat Fan and Gastrix. Also check out the Karate and Kung Fu videos (ouch!).