Articles posted by "Master Gorino"

Sometimes, as a martial artist and a black belt, you see injustice in the world and you want to right it.  People intervene in fights because they want to do the right thing. They see somebody getting beat up and they want to stop them from getting beat up. As a matter of [...]Read more

As a teenager, what could be more fun that going to school on your days off, am I right?  Well, at this school, we have a very special group of teenage students who do exactly that.  Recently, I started a program where, on holidays and breaks from school, a remarkable [...]Read more

Our trial program isn’t designed to show you what you can’t do, it’s designed to show you the possibilities of what you’ll be able to do as you develop your mind and your body in unison. It all begins with a shift in your thinking from an “if” mindset to a “when” [...]Read more

There’s a new saying that we use around the dojang: “Strong is the new skinny. I once had a student named Cathy who, unfortunately, was pretty heavy at one point. She lost a lot of weight using a very famous weight loss program. Because she had done such a great job with her [...]Read more

At only 5’ 7”, I can’t do a full side split, but I can kick someone who is 6’ 4” in the head.  You would think this is because I’m incredibly flexible. But, the truth is, I never considered myself to be.  In a previous blog post, we talked about the reasons that people [...]Read more

I tell all of my students that there are two kinds of people in this world: those that practice Tae Kwon-Do, and those who only wish they could. I also tell them that everyone wants to learn a martial art, they are just the brave ones who stepped forward to do it. Brave being the [...]Read more