In most martial arts, the first techniques that you learn are usually strikes. (In grappling arts, you learn how to fall without being broken.) Then, you learn how to not be struck. This is usually called blocking. Oh, and don’t
COURTESY AND HUMILITY – Proctor Sensei
The first of the Twenty Precepts of Karate is that “Karate begins and ends with courtesy.” The first tenant of Tae Kwon Do is “courtesy.” And yet, as the decades have passed, I have seen courtesy become less common in