COVID 19 - All Classes are now suspended.

Today I have made the decision to temporarily suspend all of our classes.

With martial arts clubs across Canada and kids sports here at home suspending operations along with many working from home and parents becoming increasingly frustrated with the province for not suspending school, it's clearly time to suspend classes.

My initial plan was to revisit this decision every night and continuing to run class as long as possible or until some other gym made the first move, but I don't see a point in staying open a few more days if it means putting our members families health at risk.

While its hard for businesses to close as we don't want to upset our members or affect our bottom line, I hope that other martial arts programs in Regina will act responsibly and in solidarity with us so that we can all get back to our regular lives as quickly as possible.

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For our members, I have a solution for classes missed in hopes to go above and beyond for those who support us and continue to support us in this challenging time.

1- Classes at home.

I will be updating the member portal in the next 36 hours with my own videos you can practice at home either as an individual, with a partner, or a child can practice with their parent or sibling. This will be updated once a week. Contact us at Hello@reginabjj.com for the password if you are interested.

2- Credit classes on your membership (kids)

When classes resume, what you paid for is credited on to your account that you can apply based on which level you attend.

Level one kids: we will be running a few sunday classes that so that you can attend both saturday and sunday and make up for the classes missed

Level two and three kids: As our memberships are done by once a week, twice a week, etc, and have far more opportunities to make up a class, each class missed is a credit you can apply to any other days once we resume. These credits don't expire for level two and three kids (you can use them a year down the road)

You can attend any level two classes in lieu of those missed.

Teens - Assuming there is interest, we will run classes an extra half hour until that time missed is repaid.

I know belt promotion week was this week and was looking forward to it. We will do promotions once everyone is back.

3) Crediting your membership (adults)

I will either be running small group private classes or open mats on friday nights to current members once normal operations resume.

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I am hoping we will be back in operation March 23rd but we will be reviewing updates as they develop and deciding over the weekend what is the best course of action.

Whether you have been with us since the beginning or have just recently joined us, I hope we can come together as one community and help each other should we need assistance over the coming weeks. Please feel to reach out and contact me if there is something I can do to help your family. While we all deal as individuals with a very stressful time in our history, community keeps us strong and optimistic.

John