Articles posted by "Master Gorino"

Without question, one of the coolest parts of running a dojang is when a student and their loved ones earn black belts in the same ceremony. As is the case with anything, there are both positives and negatives to families training Tae Kwon-Do together. But the good vastly [...]Read more

BOOM.  BOOM.  BOOM. One of my dear friends, Grand Master Francois Balet, was lifting weights at a YMCA in Canada one day back in the mid 60s. That booming sound stopped his workout dead in its tracks.  He went to find out where the sound was coming from. What he [...]Read more

It Changed His Life It was August of 2014. A few weeks before his sixth birthday, Colton started Tae Kwon-Do at Master Gorino’s. We had no idea how important that moment would be. Colton suffered from ADD. He had speech and reading issues as well as a learning disability. We were [...]Read more

Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic, I had a baby.  No, Charlie didn’t get a new brother or sister. And my wife Tica felt no pain at all.  This was my baby. I birthed it myself. And I named it SWAT.  SWAT stands for Special Winning Attitude Teens. It is a group of [...]Read more

Why did I learn Tae Kwon-Do? In many ways, it wasn’t up to me.  I actually started out in Karate. I mainly studied Isshin-Ryū, which I spent a lot of time on and loved. Isshin-Ryū teaches practical stuff; street-usable things. But, unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on [...]Read more

Tabula rasa is the notion that humans are born a blank slate, and all knowledge comes from experience or perception. The White Belt symbolizes this. Purity. Innocence. The Yellow belt symbolizes the sun. A source of light and warmth, and new beginnings.  The Green belt [...]Read more