The Benefits of Board Breaking

Board breaking is an interesting practice for people that are not accustomed to Martial Arts training.  It almost seems insane to take your hands and feet and batter them against a piece of intimate wood that has not done anything to hurt you in the first place. And...

Learning to Earn your Belt Back

We wanted to share the story of Morgan and her mom Brianna, and we are extremely grateful for allowing us to use their example for other students as they work to their Black Belt.  Over our time in the Martial Arts, we have met all kinds of people, and their reason...
Learning Self Control through Martial Arts

Learning Self Control through Martial Arts

  Every once in a while we will run into a special story that really touches our hearts and make us grateful to be Martial Arts Professionals.  This is the story of Georgia (real name this time), a student of ours who has been training at our Mission Viejo studio...

How the Kubotan can safe your life

The Kubotan is a very practical and versatile weapon. It looks a lot like a heavy key chain but it works primarily as a self defense weapon. Many people wonder if this weapon can be used for real and we wanted to share the story of a student of ours who used it with...
The importance of wearing a karate uniform

The importance of wearing a karate uniform

The karategi commonly known as “gi” is the traditional Japanese training uniform utilized at our studios.  Frequently we get some questions about it, and this article will try to answer some of them. How do you put on your uniform correctly and tie your belt? For this...

Newsletter 1st Week of February

Hello everyone, As always, we want to take a chance and share our newsletter for the 1st week of February.  We hope you find some interesting information here and maybe some funny stories.  Students – if you would like to be featured on these, please submit your...