Article for the PKC Newsletter

"Therefore put your life force or soul into your practice. Would one, as a junior or child competitor, rather be a state and national champion who received acclaim with open-handed backfists and posturing and ended up maimed or dead in a fight, or a martial artist who sincerly trained for a superior physical and strategic essence, and lived.

Teachers, people who impart knowledge or skill, create reflections of themselves. To paraphrase Appius Claudius the Blind, 'If you would have students of peace, be they prepared for war.'"