West Haven Academy of Karate Willimantic Branch

01/07/2025

Your invited! Join us THIS SATURDAY, January 11, from 10-12 for our annual Tang Soo Do Party where the students to get showcase their skills. This is followed by a potluck lunch, so bring your favorite dish to share.

12/12/2024

Celebration of Dan promotion

05/14/2024

Just in time for summer! Come and join a great community of people.

03/26/2024

03/26/2024

Getting this page updated. Share any photos you may have.

09/08/2022

Thank you to the Lear family for hosting our Dan Camp again this year. Big Thank you to SBN Lear and SBN Arbuckle for the excellent classes and welcome back to a couple of Dans from the past.

08/29/2022

Great picture of past camp t-shirts.

08/12/2022

Orange belts practicing Arnis.

07/24/2022

Well here i go again with a bit of a wordy message.

Some of you may have read my rant about the end of 2021 and how it had affected me as a martial arts instructor. What most won't/don't know is the impact that it actually had on me, and that is, that it got me to the point where it made me wonder and question myself as an instructor teacher and possible mentor. One of the things it made me do was feel as if i was an impostor to all of the things people said about me and what i meant to some. All of this made teaching hard for me for quite some time. I spoke to some people that i look up to both in the martial arts an not, to try to get a handle on my feelings.

On Friday (7/22/22) one of my students, who has the biggest heart of most people that i have met in my lifetime planned a surprise promotion party for me and managed to get a lot of people that have meant so much to me in my lifetime as friends and great people im general. My speech, (if you can call it that) was very short, i was told it was all of 14 seconds, it was that short because, first of all i am not much for public speaking and secondly, this was such an emotional moment for me. I do so appreciate what was done for me and the people that showed up made me feel legit. I had a student say some things about me at his last test that made me realize that I do have somewhat of an impact in what i do. All of this has made me realize that I do and have done this for a reason for all of these years and not as i said, "that as a karate instructor it is what i am supposed to do", it is much bigger than just that and it was shown to me by the number of people that showed up to congratulate me on my latest accomplishment.

So this is and has been something that i truly believe in and now feel that i will continue to do for as long as I am able. I am pretty sure that a lot of people will not understand the idea of the martial arts being a family but that is their loss.

Seth

07/24/2022

Full house sharing some great energy celebrating Master McCalasters new promotion and reconnecting with people we haven’t trained with in a long time.