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Interview Archive
"Anything "Goshin Jutsu" is worth the time and effort. " #1 show up on time for practice. #2 Train to your physical capacity. #3 listen to your instructor(s). "Continue learning and expanding your horizons, or you can become trapped in doing the same few favorite techniques all the time. At that point, you become predictable." "Only one can be the best but there are many areas in which to be the best. Always try to be better than you were before..." “Are you still in karate? Your answer will be: “No, karate is still in me!” "When your training seems the toughest and you feel you are doing your worst....that's when you are learning the most." "I had been interested in the martial arts for quite a while before I started. As luck would have it a gentleman started teaching Goshin Jutsu in the church hall across the street from my parents home when I was 15. It must have been fate!." "Every time you get out on the floor, it is a victory." "Take new ideas and integrate them so they make sense to you." "On the mat everyone should train as hard as they can. It is important to remember that people have different desires and abilities, which we must take into account when teaching them. Student A's Judo might be not be the same as student B's but to the both of them their way of Judo (or any martial art) in the correct one for them." I walked up to the guy with the black belt and asked how one can start. He said take off your shoes, I did, and the rest is history..." "...my hope is to teach them all that I know without holding back with hopes that they will in their lifetime learn and become more proficient than me." |