The Journey Begins

Steven Barnes
3 min readOct 19, 2020

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?

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.