As karate instructors we’re expected to be in control when we’re on the floor. In control emotionally, mentally and physically. But sometimes it’s challenging to keep up the high standards we set for ourselves and what our students and families have come to learn and expect. Being human it’s impossible to be upbeat and positive […]

Yep it’s that time of year again in the northern hemisphere… Summer. When summer arrives, the weather heats up and class numbers take a dive… Kids are off school and on vacation with their families. And for a lot of martial arts schools in the USA, June/July can be challenging financially to say the least. […]

I want to share with you a story that I haven’t shared before… It was nearly 6 years ago now, but it just seems like yesterday. I remember it so vividly because it was a hot summer weekend in August 2002. We’d just moved back to the United States and been living in my parent’s […]