KICKIN' IT! BLOG

COVID Challenge – Day 10!

Welcome back to day 10 of our COVID Challenge. Let’s kick the heck out of COVID.

Today’s challenge is to:

Patience is more than waiting.

How does the martial arts teach us patience? How will the martial arts help us get through our current situation?

It shouldn’t be a shock that this week’s message revolves around patience. To get back to normal, we need to be patient. Patient with each other, the situation and the process of isolation.

Live Streaming Karate Lessons

Beginning Monday March 22, we’re going to be live streaming karate lessons to the community as our part of helping people stay active. Just visit our daily ZOOM meeting and follow along.

Stuck at home? Karate Lesson – Day 3

Today’s lesson will be all about how to throw a LOW BLOCK (Gedan Barai). I’ve also included a more detailed warm up, some individual and partner drills as well as a new game to play at the end of your class.

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Stuck at home? Free Karate Lesson – Day 2

Like most of you, I’m a parent trying to find things to do and keep my kids entertained. As I thought of ways that I could help, the best way that I came up with was by offering free karate lessons on-line.

Stuck at home? Here’s a fun karate lesson – Day 1

Like most of you, I’m a parent trying to find things to do and keep my kids entertained. As I thought of ways that I could help, the best way that I came up with was by offering free karate lessons on-line.

Now, I’ve never taught lessons this way, so we’ll have to see how they go, but I really hope that you enjoy them.

COVID Challenge – Day 2

Welcome back to day 2 of our COVID Challenge. Let’s kick the heck out of COVID.

I got a bunch of submissions from yesterdays challenge of completing 100 kicks. It was great seeing students AND their family members participating.

20202 T-Shirt Competition

Tomatoes ripen at different rates.

I remember a friend saying something to me once and it was genius. It answered so many questions that I had as an instructor.

When I’m looking at a student that isn’t getting the results they want, I bounce back and forth between the thoughts of “Are they working hard enough” and “Are they just not ready” and that’s what this week’s message of the week is about.

Stop holding yourself back.

When I was a kid, my parents were CONSTANTLY telling me to live up to my potential. Parents…sound familiar?

As I got older and started doing more things, I experienced some disappointments. I would get a poor mark in school, fail to make a team and a variety of other things.