Jus realized that I didn’t finish talking about my not so recent at this point trip to europe. Me and my dad took a day trip from Liège to Köln(Cologne). We took a Deutsche Bahn(DB) ICE, which is german high speed trains. It took about 1 hour, and it was a pretty good train, much […]
As of 9/23/24, I had exactly 999 acts of kindness for my black belt requirement. I realized that I had to commemorate my last act. For this occasion, I picked something that I have done many times before but wanted to make it special. The medical assistants I work with LOVE the scones from Coffee […]
Written by Matt Nedresky
We are about to be in the last 3 months (the final 25%) of our black belt trial and I am really starting to feel the pressure. I have just started really ramping up my numbers in push ups, sit ups, and kumite. For the sparring portion, I have been coming in on the weekends […]
Written by Matt Nedresky
This week I finished one of my black belt challenge goals. I have reached 1,000 miles. I cannot express how flabbergasted, excited, and happy I am in words. When I first started the black belt challenge I did not know if I could do any of the challenges. I just decided I would try everyday […]
Written by Elan Wilbur
I went to Phoenix, Arizona this week with 2 of my friends to visit some other friends. It ended up being 15 people in total that were all together. I only knew the 2 friends from Sacramento initially. We rented a house and basically just explored the city. It’s always great to make new friends. […]
Written by Matt Nedresky
One of my classes this year is peer tutoring, which encompasses me helping out in a class at the elementary school which we are connected with. I was assigned the kindergarten class which has definitely been an experience so far. One of the kids is quite the troublemaker, however most of them are fine. They […]
Written by Jake Ross
School started back up about 4 weeks ago. This year I am a senior in high school, and I’m taking 5 hs classes plus one community college class. I have gov/econ, pe, peer tutoring, english, and stats. For the CC class, I am taking Game Design which is an interesting class. So far its going […]
Written by Jake Ross
This is an excellent book to read for a general getting ready to go to war. I am not a general who is leading an army to war. There are however interesting concepts to use in sparring. “In battle there are not more than two methods of attack the direct and the indirect, yet these […]
Written by Elan Wilbur
In the book I just completed, “Karate-Do: My Way of Life”, it references training with intensity at all times. Not only with sparring but also with kata and basics. You must treat everything as if you are in actual battle and “always have the opponent in mind”. This is very important in all aspects of […]
Written by Matt Nedresky