Some concepts are easy to explain with words. Humility isn’t really one of them. We can talk about it – and we do, as part of our character development program – but in order to help people understand humility, we have to make sure they can experience it.

Respect is one of the words most often associated with karate, and for a good reason. We care about it a great deal.

Respect is one of the words most often associated with karate, and for a good reason. We care about it a great deal.

As Sensei Cody Diesbourg explains, if it weren’t for service and people paying it forward, we wouldn’t have martial arts today.

We think it so important that we made “Perseverance” one of our 12 recurring “Words of the month”.