Karate for "Little Johnny"

Little Johnny is being picked on at school.

Johnnys parents have tried everything, talking to the school principal and teachers, telling "Little Johnny" to ignore the bullies, dad says "if they push you, push them back!" So far nothing has worked.

"Little Johnny" is scared to go to school, his grades are failing, what are his parents to do?

While driving home from the beauty salon "Little Johnnys" mom spots,
"Master Joe's Strip Mall Karate For Kids".

Mom explains the situation to Master Joe. Master Joe recommends a 3 group classes and 2 private instruction karate classes a week program, it's kind of expensive, but Master Joe will throw in a free karate Gi if Mom signs "Little Johnny" up for a one year program.

Well it's been 3 weeks and "Little Johnny" has only cried twice this week at class and he almost has that horse stance down, if he can just get his fist rotating correctly on his punches, he'll be well on his way to that yellow belt, heck he already knows the first four moves of Kata #1 and half of the dojo slogan, "THERE ARE NO BAD KIDS, JUST KIDS WHOSE PARENTS DON'T PAY THEIR MONTHLY DUES".

Can anyone relate to this. I know we have all had remarkable kids come though our schools, but most of them aren't.

When I was 18 yrs old I was teaching at a Kenpo karate school in S. Cal and have seen this situation many times. Parents see Karate, maybe thats the solution and maybe it is, but it's not a quick solution.

I would take kids like, "Little Johnny" and teach them to throw a rear hand reverse punch, put him in front of a heavy bag and slowly train him to hit and hit and hit, usually in 3 weeks the kid would be able to rip off ten decent punches into the bag, know when to fire off his punches and know where to hit.

I had parents come down to the school, Mom and Dads mad, "John" got suspended from school today, he punched one of those kids that "HAD" been pushing him around in the nose.

Mom says she didn't bring her son here to learn to be a karate killer. I explain that I'll have a talk with him. Mom storms out and Dad looks at me and says "Thanks man, My wife and I both really appreciate what you've done for "John."

Karate, Kenpo ,Kung fu, are all beautiful effective self defence arts when taught properly.

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