This week we are working on improving our balance, flexibility, and coordination. Slow kicks are a great way to build muscle and develop great control for your kicking. Start by: 1) Picking your leg up into chamber, as close to your chest as possible and holding for three seconds. 2) Extending your leg fully into a side kick, or roundhouse kick position and holding it above waist level for three seconds. 3) Recoil your leg back into chamber for at least three seconds. 4) Repe

“Hear it in Your Feet” Every heard some really good advice? Heard something that got your head nodding? That got you fired up? You might have even tapped the person next to you and said, “I am doing this!”. You might have even written it down on your phone. Maybe on the ride home you even played out the senerio in your head, made a personal movie of you achieving your goal. Maybe, just maybe you did one of these……and probably thats as far as it went. We have all done this, we

Good manners, common courtesy, and respect seem to be in a bit of a decline in recent history. With the advent of social media, and the power of anonymity it provides, it is easier than ever to say and do things that you might not do in person. In a society that seems to be speeding up exponentially, people just don't seem to have the time........for patience. Popular culture is bombarded with examplesof this type of behavior, even our Presidential Debates have taken on a dec

January 1st: You said "I am going to............this year!" You had a goal, you were excited, and you had a plan. January 14th: Life happened, you got frustrated, tired, lost some motivation, and now your sitting in front of the iPad with a Glazed Doughnut and a Glass of wine! Don't Worry! Some of us....many of us.....ALL of us fall off our course sometimes. The difference maker is our ability to course correct. To put ourselves back on track, and to set the stage for us stay

"I marked that of my Bucket List." "Been there, done that." "I just got done with my 30 Day Diet!" We all have things we want to accomplish. Those titles, accolades, achievements, that we want to look back on and say "I did that!"....and their is nothing wrong with that. Having a getting mentality can take you to some great successes, to some truly amazing accomplishments....but they just can't keep you there. We see it every time we have a Blackbelt Test. Students push, stri