Believe it or not, I hope I never get in another fight for the rest of my life.  But if I do ever find myself in one, I darn sure want to win.  And I don’t just want to win, I want to dominate. I don’t want the fight to be even remotely close, or […]Read more

It should come as no surprise that – by and large – most people who do Tae Kwon-Do will tell you that their favorite thing about it is kicking and punching.  Now while I do love kicking and punching, my favorite thing to do in Tae Kwon-Do is sparring.  “But, [...]Read more

I should be good at meditating. I am not.  At least not in the traditional sense. I am not one to sit quietly by myself, listening to my breathing, trying to clear my head. I know what a chakra is, but you will never catch me chanting. The way I clear my head is through […]Read more

From the moment I started to even think of opening my own school, I knew I wanted to model it after Grand Master Gorino’s. Although I’ve trained for over 30 years, I have been training with Grand Master Gorino for over seven years now. And the moment I walked into his school, it [...]Read more

I hate to break it to you, but I’m a pretty boring eater.  Typically, my day starts with half a cup of coffee. See? Boring already.  With that, I will eat a banana and two slices of buttered toast. That’s most of my mornings. Other mornings I will have oatmeal with [...]Read more

Social struggles know no age.  I get a lot of students – adults and children alike – that are, for lack of a better word, awkward. Of course, it can sometimes be related to a learning disability or some other external factors, but for the most part, I find that [...]Read more