How Getting Yelled at Actually Relieves Stress
This might sound weird, but I believe that getting yelled at and being told what to do for an hour can actually relieve stress. At our dojang, we get a lot of people who have high-powered or high-stress jobs. They love training here because, for that hour, they don’t have to [...]Read more
The Three Contact Rule
Jack is a really nice kid, but he’s also a bit of a politician. Sometimes, when confronted, Jack thinks he can skirt the issue, so to speak, as to why he obviously didn’t practice that week. He is not a bad kid, though, he’s just distracted and needs to be re-engaged. [...]Read more
The Best Decision I Ever Made: Instructor Costello’s Story
Joining Master Gorino’s school in 2001 was the best decision I ever made. I had always been interested in learning self-defense. Training at Master Gorino’s has certainly heightened my awareness and helped me feel safer, but there are so many other benefits that I’ve [...]Read more
You Can’t Until You Can
If you watch black belts do Tae Kwon-Do and think to yourself: “I can’t do this,” you’re right. You can’t. Yet. And, neither could they when they first started training. I get frustrated when people think they are so different from everyone else that no one could [...]Read more
Anxiety About Starting Tae Kwon-Do
Let’s face it. Most people get anxious about starting Tae Kwon-Do because they’re afraid of getting beat up. Or possibly worse…embarrassed. Most depictions of martial arts in movies and TV are violent, so people naturally equate martial arts with violence. I think they see [...]Read more
Learning With Your Eyes: My Son Charlie
I’m going to gush about Charlie, here. Charlie is my little boy, and my best buddy. He is an example of “amazingness in action.” I’ll take a little credit for that, but his mother really deserves most of it. I believe that the old adage of “it takes a village to raise a [...]Read more