World Martial Arts Academy

"The man who conquers himself, is ready to take on the world, should need arise"

-Miyamoto Musashi

If anyone plans to attend the memorial service on Friday, it's 6:30-8:30. Wear your uniform if you're coming

For all who's attending.

The showing will be from 5-8 @ O.R. Woodyard in Columbus on Friday. There will be a Masonic service @ 7:30 that all are welcome to attend. Following that, there will be a Martial Arts service and all practitioners of all arts are asked to wear a white uniform if you have one for that part of the service. I'm only wearing mine for that part, but you're more than welcome to wear yours the whole time if you'd like.

Saturday will be the mass and burial in Athens at Christ the King starting at 1:30. Later that evening, there will be a celebration of life. Location tbd

This is Daniel,

If you have any pics of me, yourself, and/or your family with my Dad, please pm them to me

In the 60's and 70's martial arts were a cult. If you missed a session everyone would want to know where you were. Training practices were harsh and very dangerous and injuries commonplace.
Everyone attended every seminar and every tournament. Barefoot runs to warm up, barefoot running in the snow during winter just wearing our karate-gi, bare knuckle full contact fighting was done nightly. We all thought we were warriors.
Today, many Dojo are a part of the gym culture, students tend to treat it like they treat the gym. With many things in their life that come before training. Students don't train if they don't feel like it, and they're not held to account by their peers.
It seems to be okay to stop and have a water or toilet break during a lesson, and they can't tell the difference between good and bad pain. It's rare to find durable, tough people.
The old training was tough and unrelenting, but a certain mental fortitude was forged. We certainly weren't allowed to have a water break in the middle of a class. But we were young, we thought the art was toughness, so we drove ourselves.
No hand pads or gloves, no body-protectors, no head-guards, pad work was your rolled up karate-gi top against your chest. Many kata practiced without a karate-gi top with the sting of a “shinai” often used for correction.
One thing that those traditional karate lessons did was instill a behavior pattern into us. Of respect, toughness, resourcefulness, dedication and hard work. It taught things that are hard to learn elsewhere, and those are lessons that have helped me throughout my life. A hard-style dojo was a unique environment.
Many of my present students wouldn’t have got through the door at our old dojo let alone lasted the first class.
Injuries were a common occurrence, being hit in the head was normal. There were dislocated fingers and shoulders, broken toes, ribs, feet, hands, and joint damage, oh and the blisters, all were common….. and we still came back to training.
In the 60’s and 70’s, there was a “atmosphere” to a traditional dojo. The hardwood or concrete floors, the smell of Tiger Balm, the stiff white uniform, the strict discipline, the thunderous sound of “kiai” echoing off the walls, the harshness of it. There were plenty of lessons to be learned in traditional karate and most of them were good lessons. It’s was a place of personal growth and development. A place where you could become a better person, a place where you could help others become better people. It’s was a good feeling, and a feeling that’s very hard to capture in any place but a hard style traditional dojo.
Back in the beginning, in the 60’s and 70’s, karate was the toughest thing around. Then commercialism set in. Vested interest. Profit. Keep the kids entertained. Now there is more. More styles, more systems, more of everything. Is it better today?
Sometimes I miss the old days.
Inspired by Steve Rowe 9th dan Shikon International.

The World Taekwondo Family is saddened to hear of the death of Team Greece’s two-time Olympic Silver Medalist Alexandros Nikolaidis.
He passed away of cancer, aged just 42.
Rest in peace, Champ.

What is the difference between Hapkido and other forms of combat? Only in Hapkido do we make the attacker scream.

To my first Jr. Olympic team and in particular my niece Christina. I will always remember at the qualifiers many of them worried and even crying about the host school and their brand new warm up suits and doboks( uniforms) and how are we ever going to beat them. Our students doboks were old tattered and sweat stained. Their instructor was new to this level competition but I knew that we trained harder. We overcame much adversity to get here. The local newspaper did a story that began like this.
They come to train at this martial arts school through the alleys and side streets of the Short North. Past the prostitutes and drug dealers that line the streets...
My friends who were themselves world champions said we were never supposed to be as successful as we were. What was the secret? Take note and pass this on to your children and grandchildren. When kids were playing after school we were training. When they were at the pool we were training. When we were told we couldn't win we didn't have time to look up and listen. We were training. Like this runner we began at the back of the pack( now you know that is not a bad place to be) when we look back we were far ahead of the pack. A strong work ethic will always put you ahead of the pack.

Billy Mills (born 1938) won what sports writers called the most sensational race ever run in Olympic history. A relative unknown, he came from behind to beat world champion runners in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. Miller later became one of the most noted of motivational speakers.

Mills was born on June 30, 1938 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The young Native American ran like the wind over the prairies and hills near his Lakota Sioux Reservation home. His mother, who was one quarter Sioux, died when Mills was seven year old. His father, who was three quarters Sioux, died five years later. Native Americans considered him to be of mixed blood. The white world called him a Native American. Mills claimed that running helped him to find his identity and to blunt the pain of rejection.

As a youngster, Mills admired the great war chief, Crazy Horse. This spiritual leader of the Lakota challenged him to follow his dreams, reach for goals, and succeed in life. Crazy Horse was a warrior, who led his life through responsibility, humility, the power of giving, and spirituality. Mills tried to live by the knowledge, the wisdom, and the integrity of Crazy Horse. After breaking many high school track records on the reservation, Mills received a scholarship to attend Kansas University. He then became an officer in United States Marine Corps.

As a young Marine lieutenant, Mills had been allowed to train for the 1964 Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan. He qualified for the team in both the 10,000-meter race and the marathon, but was not expected to win either race. No American had ever won the 10,000-meter race in the Olympics. But Mills had always lived according to the teachings of his father, who had challenged him to live his life as a warrior and assume responsibility for himself.

Australia's Ron Clarke was world famous as a runner in the 10,000-meter event and was the odds-on favorite to win a gold medal. Mohamed Gammoudi, a Tunisian runner, was expected to finish in second place for the silver medal. Any of the other runners were capable of taking a third place bronze medal, according to the experts. It was thought that none of the other runners could win.

Mills, a believer in visualization or "imagery," did not permit a negative thought to enter his head as he worked toward the biggest race of his life. He had for some time before been visualizing a young Native American boy winning the 10,000-meter event at the 1964 Olympics. He created that picture in his mind over and over again. If a thought about not winning came into his mind, he would spend hours erasing the negativity. There could be only one result!

As Mills lined up, there was only one thing on his mind, and that was to win. The gun cracked and the field broke away from the starting grid. As expected, Clarke and Gammoudi fell into first and second place. Mid-pack jostling and shoving allowed the leaders to pull away and Mills dropped back. It appeared he was out of contention and few paid any attention to the sleek Native American who was well back in the field. If they had looked, they would have seen him running as smoothly as the wind, without effort, in perfect control. Near the end of the race, Clarke and Gammoudi remained in the lead. The Japanese crowd cheered politely at what they had known all along was going to happen.

But suddenly the smooth running Mills stepped up his pace. He was closing on the leaders. The crowd fell silent. Mills increased his smooth, even pace, and drew closer to the leaders. With the three runners speeding down the last home-stretch, Mills made a spectacular, totally unexpected move. He surged in front of Clarke, who was still running in second place, then Gammoudi, who was leading. At the tape, it was Mills, Gammoudi and Clarke. Mills had beaten Gammoudi by three yards and Clarke by a full second. He had completed the race in a new Olympic record time of 28:24.4, a full 46 seconds better than his best previous time.

The crowd went wild with cheering, for they had seen the impossible happen. They had seen an underdog, an unknown, a runner who wasn't given a chance to win, beat the favorite. They had witnessed one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history. After his great running victory at Tokyo, Mills was honored with the warrior name of 'Makata Taka Hela' by the Lakota Nation. It means "love your country" and "respects the earth."

Although he was never sent to Vietnam because of his rigorous training schedule in the Marines, Mills was deeply affected by the many combat deaths of men from his unit. He felt that he could not participate in a sport when people were being killed in Vietnam. Mills finished his Marine Corps tour of duty as a captain, then reentered civilian life as an official of the Department of the Interior. He followed this with a very successful career as an insurance salesman. Mills retired from his insurance business in 1994 and became a motivational speaker.

Mills, who was elected to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1984, moved with his wife, Pat, and their three daughters, Christy, Lisa, and Billie JoAnne, to Fair Oaks, a Sacramento, California, suburb. He devoted all of his time to speaking to Native American youths and raising money for charities, such as Christian Relief Services.❤️Visit the store to support Native American products 👇👇
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This weekend we honor those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom.

They have given us the ability to prepare, protect, and fight for the ones we love.

Warrior Poet Society and honor those who have given us the ability to do what we love proudly and freely.

Check out the link in our bio for more info on how you can continue to safely protect those you love while protecting yourself in the process.

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Good bye
Remo Williams

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