From The Black Belt Book of Life: Secrets of a Martial Arts Master.
Of all life’s skills
with which to carry,
remember this …
Balance is Primary!
Anyone can teeter-totter but not everyone can balance.
Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his
balance.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the
great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you
are really a wise man.
Coming Soon! The Karate Consciousness: From Worldly Warrior to Mystic Master
Front Cover. Cover artist: Adam “Frog” Mahan
Back Cover
The Karate Consciousness: From Worldly Warrior to Mystic Master is dedicated
to the philosophy that karate is both an excellent system for the integration
of body, mind and spirit as well as an excellent vehicle for the evolution of
one’s consciousness of life from a mundane perspective to a more elevated and
edified reality.
Judy “Striker” Gompf is back on track and on the move toward her Purple Belt
and a new career. Having taken some time off, she is diligently practicing her
Kiado-Ryu forms, techniques, and fighting skills, as well as cross training.
She recently set a new personal best of 800 lunges! That’s right, 800! Quite a
feat, especially after only being able to do 20 lunges at a time when she
first started. Talk about determination! She’s got it in spades. As a result,
there’s a massive amount of strength in Striker’s legs, so don’t get kicked!
KIA Authoress Lands Chicken Soup For The Soul Inclusion In its 2017 "Military Families" Edition!
Nicole “Goldilocks” Hackler—KIA Faithful and Marine Corps wife to retired
husband, Warren—has added the title of “Authoress” to her many
accomplishments. Congratulations, Goldilocks!
Lovely as always, and with her contagious effervescent personality, as always,
Goldilocks poses with the book that has put her on the map of published
authors. Her poem, A Knock on the Door, is featured on pages 116/117. It is
a poignant poetic description of the fear that every military wife or spouse
dreads—a knock on the door, a knock which can change one’s life in the blink
of an eye, a knock whose potential message makes one’s heart stop cold. Her
poem skillfully captures the haunting and frightening feeling that explodes
when one hears that “knock.”
Sadly, this week’s feature reveals the power of one punch, one cowardly sucker
punch which ended the life of a forty-five year old father of five children,
Louie Campos.
Two major lessons can be learned from this tragedy:
A single punch can be lethal.
Constant vigilance is critical, especially in today’s world. One can never
drop his/her guard, ever. Each of us must live in a constant state of
awareness. This has always been the philosophy of the KIA and the tragic
murder of Louie Campos reiterates its sad but undeniable truth.
The Karate Institute of America sends its deepest sympathies to Mrs. Campos,
their five children and the entire Campos family. RIP - Louie Campos. Be well,
Campos family.
Movies are filled with fight scenes that go on forever and ever, giving people
the illusion that such extended engagements are the reality of street fights.
Not so when a well-trained Black Belt is involved.
The following four-part screen cap reveals how knowledge triumphs in many
situations, and in this case it is “one and done.” As the narration of the
video states, the black dude is a pimp who assaults a Black Belt named Jay
Lee, who, upon assault from the pimp, preempts the attacker and knocks the
dude out with one blow, in what appears to be a lead armbar to the head/neck
area.
