Congrats to a great group of Norwin Ninjas who graduated up to Team Kumite. The group of 7 kids all did a great job at the team tryouts! Go Parker, Matt, Skylar, Layla, Emma, Ethan, and Noah. The Allegheny Shotokan karate family is proud of you. Good luck, Sensei Bill
3x NBL National Black Belt League World Continuous Sparring Super Grands Champion Ali Viola represents Team Kumite based in Pittsburgh, PA. The All-star karate team trains in North Huntingdon Irwin at Allegheny Shotokan Karate. She is the only female NBL World Champion in Pittsburgh history and the #1 ranked fighter in Pittsburgh. She has been training in martial arts since she was 3 years old. She currently leads the D-1 YSU Youngstown State girls soccer team as the goal keeper.
Ali Viola vs Colbey Northcutt. Ali wins Survivor 2012 over Northcutt. Great fight by both ladies.
Ali Alison Viola vs Colbey Northcutt. Viola wins by 18
Pittsburgh sport karate champion Ali Viola is a kumite classic team member and Norwin graduate. She is a state, national, international, and World Champion.
Sensei Bill Viola, Pittsburgh Steeler Legend Hines Ward, and Allegheny Shotokan Karate World Champion Dominic Leader @ The Positive Athlete ceremony. Pittsburgh Steelers legend and Super Bowl XL MVP Hines Ward has selected an elite group of high school athletes to receive the inaugural “Positive Athlete Awards.” The honor is bestowed upon the 26 positive High School Athletes in sports played throughout Western Pennsylvania. Winning the first ever Martial Arts (Sport Karate) award is Dominic Leader of Norwin High School, a member of the Allegheny Shotokan Karate Club and Team Kumite in Irwin, PA. Leader was nominated by his Coach, Bill Viola (Coach of Team Kumite & Promoter of The Kumite Classic, Pittsburgh)
The Positive Athlete, in partnership with the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum, KDKA-TV, and MSA Sports established the first annual Western Pennsylvania Positive High School Athlete Award. The student athletes were chosen based the characteristic requirements of “Positive Athlete,” that included an optimistic attitude, teammate encouragement, servant leadership, heart for others, ability to admit imperfections, giving 100 percent all the time, and realizing the team is more important than the individual.
Leader, a Senior at Norwin High School, is not only a scholar athlete but a genuine positive role model for today’s youth. He is a member of the National Honor Society ranked among the top 10 of his class, recently honored for representing that top 5% of the school. He is a well rounded student elected 2011 Home Coming King and Sr. Class Officer serving as Secretary. Dominic helps organize the school’s annual blood drive and is a big supporter of the Walk for Juvenile Diabetes (a disease that affects one of his close friends). He also supports the Walk for Grace and other charitable fundraisers in the area. As an active member of the Interact Club, he joins a group of dedicated students who perform volunteer work in the Norwin area. Dominic mentors youth in Westmoreland and Allegheny County though the art of Karate. He has been a Student at Allegheny Shotokan Karate for 15 years, joining the club when he was just 3 years old. He is dedicated to making a difference in kids by donating all of beste online casino his free time to working, training and coaching younger students. He travels with the across the country as an assistant coach for Team Kumite, an all-star karate team based in Pittsburgh.
As an athlete, Dominic has won numerous state, national and international titles. Most recently he represented the United States and Pennsylvania at the NBL Super Grands World Games. After an undefeated season in 2010, Leader joined a short list of athletes to ever earn a World Title from Western PA. Dominic is a rare student who excels at the top levels of academics and athletics. Dominic will take his talents to the University of Pittsburgh this fall.
SEVEN DEINITIONS OF A POSITIVE ATHLETE:
1.Optimistic Attitude – Most coaches will tell you that an athlete who believes positive things will happen has a greater chance for success.
2.Encouraging Teammate – In every sport, teammates are going to experience some kind of failure. Positive Athletes are the first ones to encourage them.
3.Servant Leader – Positive Athletes do not think about being the “stars of the team.” They lead through serving others first and by setting an example.
4.Heart for Others – Many athletes are blessed with gifts that many others are not. The Positive Athlete seeks to help the less gifted or fortunate.
5.Admits Imperfections – This is Positive Athlete…not Perfect Athlete. Athletes willing to admit they make mistakes gain the respect of teammates and fans.
6.Always Gives 100% – Not every athletic competition goes as planned, but a Positive Athlete always gives 100% no matter what the scoreboard says.
7.Puts Team First – There are times when personal achievement may hurt the team’s goal. Positive Athletes choose their team.
Hines Ward Positive Athlete 2012
Norwin Ninjas perform at the Kumite Classic Pittsburgh, PA as part of the Allegheny Shotokan Karate Club lead by Sensei Bill Viola Jr. The karate for kids class is specialized for 4 year olds, 5 year olds, 6 year olds and 7 year olds. It is has been recognized as the best karate school in the are for children in the Pittsburgh and surrounding areas of North Huntingdon, Irwin, Greensburg and Monroeville. Stop and visit Sensei Bill Viola for a free trial karate lesson.
Team kumite shows off the zoltan sign @ Pirate Game #zoltan made famous by dude where’s my car now trending with Pittsburgh Pirates & team kumite
As a certified sports psychologist, she figured something significant was going on.
“I thought they were just being funny, and then I realized there was a meaning behind it,” said Ms. Kunkle-Miller, who has been practicing in Mt. Lebanon for 12 years.
It means the Pirates are winning and the players and their fans are having fun.
The hand signals form the letter “Z” for Zoltan, a character whose pending arrival is celebrated by a group of losers in the 2000 movie farce “Dude, Where’s My Car?”
It became prominent among the players in May after catcher Rod Barajas belted a game-winning home run against the Washington Nationals at PNC Park. As he rounded third, he found his teammates waiting for him at home plate, their fingers interlocked to form the letter “Z,” a trend that Neil Walker helped start earlier this season in Atlanta.
“We just started doing it, we’ve been raking ever since,” said starter A.J. Burnett. “That was my favorite part of the night, seeing 20 guys behind home plate doing that. It shows you what a group we have.
“It gives them a sense of shared goal and that positive message of winning. It unifies them,” said Ms. Kunkle-Miller. “I remember when the Pirates were in the World Series [in 1979], they would play ‘We Are Family’ to rally the fans and get everybody going. This is a variation on that.”
Like playoff beards and the Green Weenie and the Terrible Towel.
“Athletes in general like to be part of a team,” said Aimee Kimball, director of mental training at UPMC Sports Medicine on the South Side for almost eight years. “So something that they all have in common, like an inside joke, bonds them a little more. And the fans then take it to another level.”
As do the merchants.
Dan Rock, general manager at Common Wealth Press on the South Side, said he and his co-workers were quick to seize on the symbol and have been selling T-shirts depicting the “Z” for a couple of weeks. Since then, they’ve been seeing the shirts pop up on fans during Pirates games.
“We don’t try to find T-shirt opportunities, but they seem to happen quite a bit with our sports teams,” Mr. Rock said. “It’s pretty popular right now, even though they don’t have any words on them. Just the hands.
“That’s what a lot of our stuff is. If you’re not from Pittsburgh, you won’t get it. We get people who come in our shop all the time and say, ‘I don’t understand what these shirts mean.’ We’re definitely Pittsburghers making shirts for Pittsburghers.”
PNC Park shows Team Kumite & Allegheny Shotokan love on the scoreboard. Check out the message above… Thanks to the Pittsburgh Pirates and Michael Russell for the shoutout! To make things nbso better, the bucs won 3-0 over the Marlins. Over 60 kumite classic friends and family came out to support!!
Looking for the most experienced karate school in the Irwin area? Allegheny Shotokan has been an Irwin Karate landmark since 1969.
Irwin, PA Karate Martial Arts is home of World Champions. Pictured is Sensei Bill Viola, Pittsburgh Steeler Hines Ward, and NBL World Champion Dominic Leader of Team Kumite. Allegheny Shotokan Karate is the most established karate school in the Irwin North Huntingdon Norwin area. Home of Champions in the Pittsburgh region. Contact us for a free lesson.
UFC Legend Royce Gracie with Allegheny Shotokan Sensei Bill Viola Jr. @ the 2012 Kumite Classic at the Pittsburgh Monroeville Convention Center.
UFC Legend Royce Gracie with Rare Book school-delays.com Director Michael F. Allegheny Shotokan Sensei Bill Viola Jr. @ the 2012 Kumite Classic at the Pittsburgh Monroeville Convention Center.
Allegheny Shotokan is home to the only Pittsburgh Sport Karate World Champions. Team Kumite, coached by Bill Viola, is the only NBL World Champion’s in the Pittsburgh Region. 3x World Champion Ali Viola, 3x World Champion Terrence Tubio, World Champion Jose Rivera, and World Champion Dominic Leader. The all-star team represents the Irwin / North Huntingdon area and the entire City of Pittsburgh at regional, national and international martial arts karate tournaments, championships and competitions. You can see the team in action at the Kumite Classic held at the Monroeville Convention Center.