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How to Determine Your Child’s Ninja Smarts Safety Quotient
This quiz on Ninja Smarts is about personal safety for youth. It helps adults start important conversations which are often difficult (drug use, strangers, weapons in school). It includes positive samurai affirmations to counteract the “yucky.” The blog gives tips to parents, and gives kids a safety quotient.
Read MoreFind More Motivation Now: Be Your Own Motivational Guru
You can invest a lot of money to hear motivation in person. And it’s worth it, if what they say nudges you. But that’s not good enough.
Read MoreThe Inspirational Carole Taylor May
The story of Carole Taylor May and her karate is nothing short of inspirational. This grandma wanted to try something new after age 60. Why not karate?
Read MoreTeaching Self-Care to Kids
By teaching self-care, you help children lay the groundwork for an emotionally stable, healthy life. Follow these tips to help your kids.
Read MoreMartial Artists Together in Brotherhood
As one of very few female karateka in our dojo, and (at that time) the only adult female, I wondered what exactly it meant “to bring sincere martial artists together in brotherhood.” It was that word brotherhood that made me curious. Did it mean that I was excluded? Was this a man’s thing?
Read MoreTime Marches On: How are You Meeting It?
Do you going through the motions of life, as time marches on all over you? Or do you take the effort, each day, to bring out your best self?
Read MoreBe Aware of Opportunities and Create Your Own Luck
Every single day that you wake up is an opportunity. You can be miserable, if you so choose. We all have negative aspects of our lives. On the other side of the coin, each new day is your chance to start again, with a more positive attitude. We all have blessings in our lives for which we can be grateful. We have opportunities all around us.
Read MoreOn Accurate Thinking: Not What, but How to Think
We are taught and constantly inundated with information and nuances about what we should think. But now it is time for us to learn discernment and accurate thinking, and then to put our own minds to good use.
Read MoreSayonara to Michael M. Ferreira Sensei
Ferreira Sensei shined as a beacon for martial artists to look up to. I am so grateful that I knew him and got to spend time training in martial arts with him.
Read MoreWhat sets Ryukyu Kempo Apart?
Ryukyu Kempo is a general term for martial arts developed in Okinawa. However, Ryukyu Kempo as taught by the United Ryukyu Kempo Alliance, is a unique and effective martial art. Not only is it effective in self defense and life protection. The curriculum we teach can be applied to all areas of life. In particular,…
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