- Boxing club keeps local youth out of trouble.
“This is so important not only for the kids aspiring to be champions,” said Botti, “but also for the kids who just need a place to blow off steam until they figure out their place in life.”
- Kim Couture loses her first MMA match in the pro ranks.
Kim Couture, wife of the UFC heavyweight champ Randy Couture, lost to Kim Rose Friday night in her professional MMA debut in Las Vegas.
- Martial arts school offers rape aggression class.
The women are effective, even victorious, but it does come at a price. Twelve hours of intense training can’t completely prepare them for the emotional and physical toll.
- Taekwondo and the Lopez family make the NYT!
Julio Lopez, a fan of 1970s’ kung fu movies, wanted to enroll his oldest son, Jean, then 8, in martial arts classes. One day, he saw a storefront advertising karate lessons. Perfect, Julio thought. Soon after registering him, though, Julio discovered the truth. The truth was Julio didn’t register his son for karate. He registered him for tae kwon do, a Korean martial art that places a greater emphasis on kicking.
- Martial arts does more for this man than just let him compete in judo at the Olympics.
Every day after school, he’d return home, kiss her and say, “Hi, Mummy.” On this day, he avoided her. She wondered why, until she saw the gash on his forehead.
Never again. Volmar began taking self-defense lessons from Leandre Innocent at the Union Judo Club in Cap-Haïtien. He dived into the martial arts with a passion. His mother (by then, his parents had divorced) constructed rope pulls near their house to build his strength, deepen his discipline and hasten his development.
Within two years, remarkably, Volmar earned a black belt.
- A parent complains that Kempo karate is not suitable for a youth club.
Unlike other, more traditional forms of Karate, Kenpo students are taught to devastate an opponent by punching, striking, kicking, locking and throwing. In Lompoc, this training is being given to children as young as 5.
- Young lady kicks butt in taekwondo!
Thirteen years later, Keelan, a 19-year-old CSUN psychology major, has a third-degree black belt in taekwondo.
Keelan won five gold medals, three silver medals and three bronze medals since 2003, the USA Taekwondo Web site shows.
“I like to fight, but I don’t like to get hurt,” Keelan said. A broken nose, jaw, and multiple rolled ankles are injuries that Keelan sustained from participating in taekwondo.
That’s a wrap for this week!
~BCP
