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Learn From Your Students
What I have learned during more than 30 years of teaching is the value of paying close attention to my…
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The Need for Intensity…Somewhere…in Your Program, Part 2
Last month, I cited our need, as instructors, to help our students discover their weaknesses or failings that we can…
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What is Kata For? It's More Than How to Hurt the Attacker – How Not to Hurt You
Part 5 of a Six-Part Series on Using Kata (or Form) For Martial Arts Development Some years ago, one of…
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What is Kata For? Fighting Is More Than Wildly Attacking
Part 4 of a Six-Part Series on Using Kata (or Form) For Martial Arts Development. Any instructor of my age…
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The Need for Intensity in Your Program, Part 1
We work in an industry that continues to change from year to year and decade to decade. Since we teach…
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That Do Factor—As in Karate-Do, Taekwondo and Judo
Letter from a loving fatherDear Sons, You have learned your martial arts history from me as children, and now from…
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How Not to Burn Bridges: An Open Letter to My Four Sons
Dear sons, now that you have decided to make teaching martial arts a career, instead of a pastime, please consider…
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Black Belt Testing
At our school, we just finished a black belt test with 48 students, of whom five were testing for 2nd…
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What is Kata For? – Centering
Part 3 of a Six-Part Series on Using Kata (or Form) For Martial Arts Development The goal for the ancient…
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What is Kata For? Part 2: Classical Training Versus Dance or Gymnastics
Part 2 of a Six-Part Series on Using Kata (or Form) For Martial Arts Development In the classical school, we…
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