I haven’t posted recently on this page, not because I’ve forgotten about it, but because I’ve been directing my efforts towards opening a dojo of my own. The dojo went “live” last November and I had the great good fortune of getting a student almost immediately. As in my previous time teaching, somehow my first student is also the best student – in terms of dedication and seriousness in their approach to training. It is very strange that I struck gold in the same way twice, but I’m certainly not complaining. In any case, it was a very personal decision for me to teach my martial art and I wanted to capture some of my thinking in going down this path. It’s not something I take lightly, as I’ve said in other posts - it doesn’t take much training to become dangerous and I feel the teacher bears responsibility here. While the training hopefully tempers the worst impulses in a student, there is a middle period there where the student is… uncontrolled , let’s say. Ultimately though I decid...
Just a nobody, training in karate