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Speaker 1: a guest in the studio, I have Thomas Werner. How
Speaker 1: you doing, sir, I'm doing awesome.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 1: Dragon Spirit Martial Arts. I'm very good and I'm excited.
Speaker 1: You guys have a fun event coming up. It's not
Speaker 1: this Saturday, it's next Saturday, right correct, the sixteenth, And
Speaker 1: this is at.
Speaker 3: The new facility. How are you liking the new place?
Speaker 2: Loving it? It's a lot of work putting together a
Speaker 2: new place, but it's coming along nicely and plenty of
Speaker 2: room to grow, plenty room for new students.
Speaker 3: That is awesome.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Dragon Spirit Martial Arts first and
Speaker 1: then we're going to chat about the event that's coming up.
Speaker 1: What are the different things you guys do, because you
Speaker 1: do more than one thing, but what are the things
Speaker 1: that you guys cover at your particular facility.
Speaker 2: Yep, So right now Monday, wednes Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 2: we do taekwondo classes. I've also got a kickboxing class.
Speaker 2: So if you're not into earning your black belt and
Speaker 2: things like that, but you want a good workout and
Speaker 2: you want to learn all the techniques, you can do that.
Speaker 2: And then I also have a preschool program that I
Speaker 2: do on Saturdays to where your preschooler can learn different
Speaker 2: balance and agility and everything else to get them started
Speaker 2: down that path.
Speaker 3: I love that. And again, this is not a new business.
Speaker 1: You've been around a bit, but you're in a new
Speaker 1: location and it's on the Harrisburg and T exit.
Speaker 3: Is that how you say that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, it's just right off of exit seventy one. Okay,
Speaker 2: just to the west of block and the north of block.
Speaker 1: Very good and again I'm excited to come out and
Speaker 1: check it out. I saw some photos on the internet
Speaker 1: and it looks it looks great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's great. Moved in some other equipment even today.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 1: So let's talk now about what we have coming up
Speaker 1: on Saturday the sixteenth, because you've got a great event
Speaker 1: coming up and it's a free event, so I want
Speaker 1: to say that first.
Speaker 3: So hopefully that Ears just perked up. Ooh, free what
Speaker 3: is this?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 3: What is the event that's coming up on Saturday the sixteenth.
Speaker 2: So Saturday the sixteenth, I'm doing a self defense seminar
Speaker 2: that is geared towards women and teen girls. It's called
Speaker 2: Empower Hurt. And this is not something new that I've done.
Speaker 2: I've taught different various self defense courses over the years
Speaker 2: for Lift and Uber and all of different organizations, and
Speaker 2: this is really going to be very impactful. It's a
Speaker 2: ninety minute seminar that goes by really really fast, and
Speaker 2: you learn different de escalation, how to spot bad situations.
Speaker 2: We'll do some different hands on drills, just a wide
Speaker 2: range of things.
Speaker 1: And again it's Saturday at the sixteen ten am to
Speaker 1: eleven thirty am and it's free. So and this is
Speaker 1: open to anybody from anywhere or is it just people
Speaker 1: in Sioux Falls or who can come to this?
Speaker 2: Anybody can come to it. We do have the event
Speaker 2: on Facebook that has the address and everything like that.
Speaker 3: And we'll share that to make that even easier.
Speaker 2: Yep, no pre registration is necessary to show up, bring
Speaker 2: where some come. We'll work out clothing and bring a
Speaker 2: water bottle and an open mind.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: Again, it's coming up Saturday, and this is for women
Speaker 1: and for teenage girls and empower her. I love that,
Speaker 1: and you've done this in the past, but this is
Speaker 1: the first time in the new facility.
Speaker 2: Yes, yep, this is probably my eighth time doing this somehow,
Speaker 2: if I remember right.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: I think it's a really cool thing. So again, that
Speaker 1: is coming up this Saturday, not this Saturday. Next Saturday,
Speaker 1: the sixteenth, ten am to eleven thirty am. It's free.
Speaker 1: It's just outside of Swoo Falls on the Harrisburg and
Speaker 1: TXIT seventy one.
Speaker 3: Did you say yes?
Speaker 1: So see, I know where it is. I just don't
Speaker 1: know how to tell people where it is, so but
Speaker 1: we'll get them there. And the nice thing is I'll
Speaker 1: share that Facebook event to make it really, really easy.
Speaker 1: And if people are interested in Dragon Spirit Martial Arts,
Speaker 1: you guys have a social media that they can follow
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: The easiest thing to do is just find us on
Speaker 2: Facebook search Dragon Spirit Martial Arts will pop right up
Speaker 2: and it's got all of our contact links, a lot
Speaker 2: of pictures, and a great range to check it out.
Speaker 2: Come in for a free trial. Nice, bring your kiddos with.
Speaker 2: We do have family discounts so the whole family can
Speaker 2: work out. And we do have a lot of families
Speaker 2: that'll that'll come in to where they'll start the kids
Speaker 2: and then the adults get into it too.
Speaker 3: That is awesome.
Speaker 1: I love that and the thing to see you guys
Speaker 1: you know what you're doing. You got some national champions
Speaker 1: in your in your place, which is really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. We had two athletes go to Salt
Speaker 2: Lake City this year. They both came back gold medalist
Speaker 2: and we're looking we're already training and planning for next year,
Speaker 2: which is going to be in Tampa.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: So if there's somebody listening, going, hey, I want to
Speaker 1: I want to live the Cobra high lifestyle. I want
Speaker 1: to live the karate kid because again, that's the first
Speaker 1: thing that comes to my mind, and I know it's
Speaker 1: probably a lot different than that, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Well, And that's actually what got me into martial arts.
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 2: The original karate kid moving back in the eighties is
Speaker 2: what got me in, and that's what got me into
Speaker 2: the first dojo, and it was a lot different back then.
Speaker 2: We were doing you know, bare knuckle push ups on
Speaker 2: Minnesota Avenue, on this on the sidewalks and everything to
Speaker 2: try to bring more people in. And it was a
Speaker 2: different experience.
Speaker 3: You had creased teaching. It sounds like it was close.
Speaker 1: It was no Miagi, there was there no Well, if
Speaker 1: somebody listening would have any interest in this, I'm going
Speaker 1: to make it really easy for them to find the info.
Speaker 1: Against Saturday the sixteenth, ten am to eleven thirty am.
Speaker 1: It's a free event empower Her for women and teen girls. Again,
Speaker 1: I'll throw a link to make it really easy. Thomas,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming in.
Speaker 2: Man, Yes, thank you again.
Speaker 1: I'll throw a link to that at Facebook dot com.
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