CrossFit Success Journals Coming Soon...

Some of you may have noticed the grey bookshelf in the corner of the CrossFit area.  Keeping track of your weights is the only way you can visually see improvements from month to month.  We have told everyone to keep track of their weights on the board and we see people taking photos on their phones which is great.  

We have decided to help you with the logging, we will implement a new Success Journal for you CrossFitters.  Just like we have for Hapkido students this will allow you to track all your weights, times, benchmark workouts, and other good thing.  We will eventually go to some type of online logging like beyond the white board in the future.  We feel people are more willing to log their weights quickly via pen and paper right after class than going home and logging into a website to input their weights.

If you do crossfit and hapkido you can keep everything in the same journal.  These journals will start to slowly roll out for everyone in the next couple weeks.  We feel if you use the journals after every class and monitor your weights and time you will see a performance increase.  We did the hard part, all you need to do is spend a minute to track all your weights, take advantage of this tool.  Numbers never lie.              

Halloween Reminder, Jr & Tiny Tiger Classes Cancelled on Halloween.

Quick reminder Tiny Tiger and Jr classes are cancelled on Halloween, October 31st, due to the fact that most kids will be getting ready and going out trick or treating.  Please stay safe when trick or treating and have parents examine all candy and items found in bags.  

Just like last year if you would like to you can wear your costume to class on Wednesday October 30th.  You can bring your full costume but any masks and other accessories must be put off to the side when taking class.  If you are not wearing a costume to class, normal hapkido attire required.  

Class schedule for Wednesday October 30th is normal schedule. No changes for Adult schedule on Halloween.

Free Movie Night Friday Nov 8th. Bring Your Friends and Watch Monsters University.

We are offering a free movie night at Evolution Martial Arts Academy on Friday November 8th.  Invite your friends and come watch Monsters University on our big screen.  If you missed your chance to watch it in the theaters you can come watch it here for free with your friends.

The movie will start promptly at 7:45pm we suggest you arrive around 7:30.  Please plan to feed dinner to your children before you arrive, the only thing we will be serving is fresh popped popcorn.  Have your child bring a bottle of water or their favorite drink and any other snacks they prefer.  

Also remember to have them bring your favorite pillows and blankets so can lay back and enjoy the movie.  The movie will end at 9:30pm, parents if you are not staying please come back and pick them up by 9:45.     

Fliers will available for you to pass out to invite your friends with all the details.  Hope to see some of you here.  Below is a quick summary

• 11-8-13 (7:30-9:30pm)
• Monsters University
• Fresh popcorn
• Bring preferred snacks or drinks (avoid too much sugar kids running around like monsters is not fun) 
• Bring pillows and blankets
• Parents enjoy 2 hours off
  

Reminder Evolution will be Closed October 12th for Crush Cancer 2013

Just a quick reminder that ALL Classes will be cancelled tomorrow due to the Crush Cancer Event in Culver City.

We are so happy that we raised close to $2,500 in our second year participating in this event.  All gyms combined have raised almost $223,000 that will go toward the battle against cancer.  Thank you to everyone who has helped raise money and those who donated to the cause.  This is the awesome community aspect that brings strangers all with a common interest together to fight something so terrible.  

The Crush Cancer workout event is tomorrow and is held in Culver City.  We have a couple coaches and a few athletes all doing this fun workout.  We will be closing Evolution tomorrow so we can go down and support our athletes and the cause.

The event begins at 10am and goes until about 4pm.  There will be ton of different vendors for the entire family to enjoy and an after party at the Culver Hotel from 4-7pm.  Most of the Evo athletes start around 12:15 to 1:30.  If you would like to come out for a bit and support the athletes their workouts will be held in the odd shaped parking lot across from Trader Joes.  The picture below shows the workout area.

The best address is

9290 Culver Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232

There is no parking at the event but there are 3 different parking structures that you can use that are within a short walk.  The first 2 hours are free and if you get validation, you can park for 4 hours for free.  Click on the link below for a map of downtown culver city.  Hope to see some of you there!

Downtown Culver City Map

October 2013 News and Updates

We can't believe its October already.  Here is a run down of the important dates and events of the month.

Fun Fridays & Super Friends Saturday

Are your friends tired of you always talking about CrossFit?  They have no idea what all these acronyms mean, WOD, AMRAP, EMOM.  They think Tabata is some type of ethnic food.  For you CrossFitters the entire month of October is bring friend to class on Fridays and Saturdays for free.  Bring them and show them the ropes, who knows maybe they will end up as hooked as you.  Our referral program never hurts either.  

Saturday October 12th Crush Cancer 2013

Some CrossFitters will be participating at this event in Culver City on October 12th.  To participate you must have raised at least $150.  There are too many gyms that are participating in this event that unfortunately not everyone can participate.

Evolution will be closed on the Saturday of this event, we will be in Culver City supporting the cause and the athletes.      

Juniors can be an Instructor for a Class. 

Friday October 18th, 5:30-6:30pm.

Hapkido Jrs. bring a friend to class and teach them some of the techniques you have learned.  This is your chance to be Mr. Jason or Mr. AJ for a day.

4:30 Jr classes will be cancelled for this class.  If you don't have a friend interested in coming still come to this class anyways, it will be fun.

Hapkido / Tiny Tiger Exams & Graduation

Friday October 25th
            5pm - White & Yellow Belts
            6pm - Green Belts
Saturday October 26th
            9:30-10:15am - Tiny Tigers Exam
            10:30 - 11am - Graduation

All Regular Hapkido and Tiny Tigers Classes Cancelled October 25th and 26th.

Halloween at EVO

Wednesday October 30th - Tiny Tigers and Hapkido Jrs can attend classes in their Halloween costume.  Show your costume to off to your classmates.  They can bring accessories and masks but will not be allowed to wear them while taking class.

Thursday October 31st - All Junior and Tiny Tiger classes will be cancelled due to Halloween.  Please stay safe trick or treating.