I have been working hard on my pushups, situps and running. I have also been doing leg raises, dips, pullups and chinups on a power tower my wife got me as an early Christmas present. It has done wonders to move me farther but given my age, I need to do something more. A few weeks ago a new Martial Arts school opened up near the house so I decided to check it out. My wife and I have been looking into schools for a long time both for ourselves and our girls. Unfortunately, most were either too costly or seemed to be focused on mass producing black belts while forgetting about what it really means to train in Martial Arts. Today, I went in to talk to the school's Sensei and see if this was a school to bring our children.

After talking to the Sensei and watching him teach his younger students, I know this school is for us. He respects the traditional values of Martial Arts training. In fact, he once trained under my Tae Kwon Do Grandmaster, S. Henry Cho, in the 1960s and 1970s. The style he teaches now is Okinawan Shorin-Ryu. Of course, it means is I have to start all over again. I will have to unlearn some of what I know to learn it in the manner that this style teaches. This means I will don my white belt again. My two oldest girls and I start training tomorrow.