-- Fit Community Programs 2006 --
Cooking Classes with Chef Elizabeth
Professional Chef Elizabeth Gousse volunteers her time at the Boys and Girls Club to teach the kids how to prepare fresh, healthy meals from scratch. We start with whole foods, organic whenever possible, and add a lot of love to create the tantalizing, and healthy, meals and snacks that make this class so popular!
Capoeira with Fernando Moraes
Vigorous dancing is good exercise. Practicing martial arts, with all its kicks and punching, is good exercise. Acrobatics are good exercise. Mix them together, along with a musical beat, and you have Capoeira.
The Afro-Brazilian martial art, undoubtedly, is great exercise.
-by David Quick [The Post and Courier]
We are all so pleased to have Brazilian trained Capoeira instructor Fernando Moraes host his classes at the club, that the kids at the Boys and Girls Club literally dance with joy during his classes. It may be the drums or the Brazilian music, but Fernando's style - which combines music, dance and martial arts with a cultural emphasis - is altogether energizing and inspiring.
Aikido with Keith Hardine
Aikido is a modern, non-aggressive Japanese martial art developed early in the 20th century by Morihei Ueshiba. Aikido focuses not on punching or kicking opponents, but rather on using their own energy to gain control of them or to throw them away from you. It is not a static art, but places great emphasis on motion and the dynamics of movement.
The Japanese word Aikido consists of three characters which can be translated as "the way of unity with the fundamental force of the universe."
-Aikido Online.com
Aikido Black Belt Keith Hardine now offers these self-defense classes to kids 11 and up at the Boys and Girls Club to empower his students with self-control, physical fitness, and valuable skills in self-defense. Kids and staff alike are grateful for the discipline and expertise that he offers his students, with a light-hearted style.
