This was another low in my life when I found karate! Life in general was not happy and going downhill until one day my husband told me try a karate class. It was very intimidating at first with all these big people, I mean tall and robust and mostly guys and rought looking girls. This was back in 1984 when I started my training in Vestal, NY under Master Hidy Ochiai. I merely looked at the classes as ways to improve myself and to once again get my self confidence and self esteem back which was destroyed along the way. I looked martial arts as my savoir to what I have become. Not that I am a loud person but I was once very timid and never voice an opinion. I would never go to a gym without a friend and I would do things out of place. Karate has taught me to be more confident with myself and that tackling a hard project to look at it as being rewarding than being a chore. I am thankful for all my senseis who have taught me many things.
I still love the art but unfortunately, my bad knees gave out and I could no longer stay in these stances without being in excruitiating pain. So what do I do, go from one torture chamber to another. Now, I am at the boxing gym. But all kidding aside, my first love is the martial arts.
Awesome, this is the EXACT reason WHY I want Nate and Ryan to do the Karate. But I first must learn more about the differences of the styles. Give me a couple of weeks for that, in the meantime I am going to sign them up for the short introductory classes at as many places I can find, so I can see if 1- something they both would enjoy 2- if one enjoys then would other want to do another sport 3- overall confidence (mostly for my older son, who is very much a quiet child, not loud and obnoxious like me! :)
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