{"id":671,"date":"2007-10-30T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2007-10-30T02:00:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T02:00:55","slug":"the-courage-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/the-courage-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Courage to Quit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The article originally appeared on October 6th, 2007 on The Onion<\/a> web site. One of my former students sent this to me and I had to post part of it here…enjoy, I did! Thanks Scott.<\/p>\n

Karate Lessons Give Child Self Confidence to Quit Karate<\/h2>\n

ENGLEWOOD, CO\u2014After months of being taught to develop courage, inner strength, and other values of the martial arts, Daniel Finkelstein finally achieved the self-confidence necessary to stand up to his parents and quit taking karate lessons, the area sixth-grader reported Monday.<\/p>\n

Finkelstein, 11, who was bullied into beginner\u2019s classes at Dragon Karate and Tae Kwon Do Academy by his father in July, reportedly drew on a number of recently acquired skills, including poise and self-assurance, when confronting his parents about how much he despised karate.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore karate, I used to let everyone\u2014my mom, my dad, even my grandma\u2014push me around,\u201d Finkelstein said. \u201cThey would tell me what to do and I would just roll over and do it, because they were bigger than me and I was scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for the focus and determination I learned in karate, I would still be in karate right now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Read the rest Here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But my favorite quote from the article is this one from his Sensei:<\/p>\n

“When Daniel first showed up to class, he was like many of the other kids we see\u2014timid, unsure of himself, and very insecure,” Guardino said. “But look at him now: He’s gone.”
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The article originally appeared on October 6th, 2007 on The Onion web site. One of my former students sent this to me and I had to post part of it here…enjoy, I did! Thanks Scott. Karate Lessons Give Child Self Confidence to Quit Karate ENGLEWOOD, CO\u2014After months of being taught to develop courage, inner strength, Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-for-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}