The Isshin-Ryu School of Karate283 Main St, Hackettstown, NJ 07840
908.852.5855
The training sessions at our home were very rewarding and productive. During Saturday’s sessions time was spent working on improving basics, self-defense, kata, kumite skills, conditioning and much more. Mr. Gugler, our newest Sho Dan, started his process at 6:59 PM Friday evening and earned is promotion to First Degree Black Belt at the end [...]
Seventy-seven Isshin-ryu enthusiasts attended seminars Saturday, June 26th, at the North Jersey Martial Arts Academy, which were hosted by Shihan Marvin Carmona (7th Dan) and his wife Kelly. Black belts and Brown belts from New Jersey, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio were in attendance. The first seminar about developing the understanding of Centering, [...]
Congratulations to the people who earned promotions at our June 19th training sessions at our home. Junior Green Belt #1 Riley Kamm Junior Green Belt #2 Arshdeep Singh Senior Brown Belt # 3 Bridget Driscoll Clairanne Arcaro Senior Brown Belt #1 Anthony Curcuruto Sho Dan (1st Degree Black Belt) Lee Gugler A few thoughts from [...]
The article, “How to Conserve Energy in Martial Arts” by Dr. Emeric Arus, founder of the Int’l. Sendo-Ryu Karatedo Federation, says energy is the capacity for doing work. Potential energy which is the capacity of a body to do work by virtue of its position relative to a reference, measured in Joule, and Kinetic energy, [...]
Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives. Too many people are having a “near-life experience.” Author: Unknown”
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us. Author: Alexander Graham Bell
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. Author: Robert H. Schuller
