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What Samurai Karate Studio Is All About!

Join me and listen to the video below that describes what <a href="http://www.samuraikaratestudio.ne/">Samurai Karate Studio</a> is all about!&nbsp; It was created by my mentor, teacher and friend, <a href="http://flavors.me/tomcallos">Tom Callos</a>, who has more than 40 years of experience practicing and teaching the martial arts: <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Kw9HGb3Ye3M" width="425"></iframe></div> I have been training with Master Callos for more than 3 years and I am a proud member of two of the most unique associations for martial artist's and school owners out in the world today.  They are <a href="http://thenewwaynetwork.ning.com/">The 100</a> and <a href=...

Why We Go To Alabama!

F rom Me to My Friends… On April 7, 2011, I will join between 50 and 100 martial arts master teachers and their students in the small southern town of Greensboro, Alabama. We will put on our work boots and gloves, and begin building a home for an elderly woman in need. I am going to Greensboro because Martin Luther King traveled through there just weeks before his death. I am going there because teacher-architect Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee co-founded the famous Rural Studio in nearby Newbern. I am going there because of the classic book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ; because James Agee wrote about the people of Hale County and because Walker Evans carried his camera down Greensboro’s Main Street. My friends and I are going there because community activist Pam Dorr lives there and heads The Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization (HERO) . We are a group of karate, kung fu, aikido, taekwondo, tang soo do and jiu-jitsu teachers from New Jersey, Hawaii, California, South Carol...