Program Review • 1-15-2020 • I just received a review from The Edge After School Program. “Following a courtesy exchange and introduction, students performed a series of exercises that ranged from stretching and “chambering” drills to stand-still punching with focus pads, walking while punching, and kicking while walking. Throughout the lesson, Instructor Kamen, a seasoned […]
Category: Practicing Martial Arts
Practicing Martial Arts
Breaking Through To The Other Side
Break On Through To The Other Side • 01-12-2020 • My Flatbush students have been “getting with the program” since we returned after Winter break. Several of them can now punch, block, and kick correctly. Stances have improved, and overall behavior is better. My problem students are in the Seventh-grade class. It consists of thirteen […]
Reflections
Reflections • 12-29-2019 • Beginning in June 2018, I took a part-time job assisting an Isshinryu Sensei teaching children KaraTe on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The kids’ ages ranged from two and a half through fourteen and were mostly from upper-middle-class families. I had studied Isshinryu for several years as a kid myself […]
The Itch To Teach
The Itch To Teach • 09-01-2019 • I have been teaching Traditional Okinawan Goju Ryu since I reached Brown Belt level in 1975. Teaching was part of the training at my Dojo in New York City. I had been working as a Recording Engineer in the Company my wife Marina Kamen and I founded in […]
