Black Belts of the Karate Institute of America

THE WALL

Richard Andrew King
Founder & Grandmaster of Kiado-Ryu Karate and the Karate Institute of America

It stands, unyielding, to an every-present flow of suppliants:
THE WALL

It beckons, calling and challenging those
whose spirit would be tested in the fire:
THE WALL

It rewards and holds within its bosom and on its face
those individuals who came to challenge and to conquer
and prove their spirit equal to the task:
THE WALL

It honors and presents forever to the world
those collective souls whose spirits would never die,
would never yield to the fire of its own relentless spirit;
THE WALL

It stands as a grand and noble legacy for grand and
noble conquerors — Black Belts of the Kiado-Ryu.
It is their exclusive right, their exclusive heritage,
their exclusive destiny.
It is undeniably and unquestionably
their WALL.