The Journey Begins

Last year, on July 20, 2019 I was inducted into the Black Karate Federation Hall of Fame, as an “Ancient Alpha Warrior” who has spent over forty years studying and teaching the arts. At the banquet table, surrounded by Masters, I was asked what style I taught.

And…my answer was slow in coming. Why? Because I knew I was surrounded by men and women of superb capacity and character. If I was going to contemplate teaching something, shouldn’t it be something unusual? Fill some gap that traditional martial arts was perhaps less efficient in teaching?

And I realized that the WARRIOR’S JOURNEY program, already in pre-production, was my answer.

There were two major groups I wanted to serve:

1. People who had never practiced the arts due to time, physical, or emotional constraints. Life can definitely get in the way. But was the inability to put thousands of hours into sometimes grueling and confrontational practice the only way to get the fabled results: clarity, fear management, energy, perception, instinct, conflict avoidance and management, or even enhanced survival probability if things DO go down? I know it is possible, because once you remove the specific physical skills from the equation, most of what remains are mental and emotional skills…all of which human beings have exhibited, at times, without any training at all. “Show me a woman protecting her child” Dawn said. “I’ll show you self defense!”
2. Martial artists who feel they haven’t completed their inner journey. In most…