One World Dojo • 5-27-2020 • One by one, the minutes tick by. They turn into hours, then days, then weeks, then months. We almost lose track of what day it is or even what the time is. Friends are missed, and school is longed for as we peer out the window knowing danger lurks […]
Category: Practicing Martial Arts
Practicing Martial Arts
The Virtual Dojo
The Virtual Dojo • 3-31-2020 • The country is locked down. Schools and businesses have closed to create “social distancing”. People are working remotely from home, and children are busy taking online classes. It is a changing world because of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic. Since the Brooklyn Middle school, the Isshinryu Dojo on the Upper […]
Life and Death
Life and Death • 3-26-2020 • Across the street from the Middle School where I teach Karate is the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush. There is an old cemetery behind the Church that I pass everyday when I walk from the subway to the school. I find this fascinating from a spiritual point of […]
KaraTe and Coronavirus
As the 2019-nCoV Coronavirus Pandemic spirals out of control, I felt it
was a good idea to teach the kids some basic viral self-defense hygiene
as part of our KaraTe class.
Unity
Unity • 2-5-2020 • “We are Dojo brothers and sisters. We are KaraTe family”. These are two of the phrases the students recite at the beginning of every class. The purpose is to create a camaraderie amongst them. While each of them has a few friends in the group, I wanted a special relationship to […]
