people, and I ate it up like ice cream. It gave me focus, on-going goals, and the aforementioned self-respect.

Do I now believe that pursuing the Martial Arts is the answer to the health crisis in America. Well, yes, and no. No, because there are many tools we can use to allo

Today, you can’t turn on the TV, look through a magazine, or most definitely surf the internet without being bombarded with ads for health products. Magic chairs that work your obliques. Magic pills that eat your fat. Magic people that can show you how. The health crisis in America is at an all time high, with more obesity, cardiac disease and cancer than we have ever experienced. I don’t need to tell you that there really is no magic solution. So what does this have to do with Samurai Weapons?

Ok, before you abandon this article as a thinly-veiled attempt to sell Martial Arts equipment with a weak connection to “health”, let me say this first: I do sell samurai weapons. I love promoting the industry and encouraging participation. The question is, why? I own an ad agency in New York City. I don’t need an e-commerce venture to survive. So what’s the deal?

I’ll take you on a very brief tour back to my days as a 7 year old. Unhappy. Neglected. Broken family, you know the drill. But I stumbled into a Tae Kwon Do class one day, and never looked back. Here was room filled with fit, disciplined, self-respecting people, and I ate it up like ice cream. It gave me focus, on-going goals, and the aforementioned self-respect.

Do I now believe that pursuing the Martial Arts is the answer to the health crisis in America. Well, yes, and no. No, because there are many tools we can use to allow

is at an all time high, with more obesity, cardiac disease and cancer than we have ever experienced. I don’t need to tell you that there really is no magic solution. So what does this have to do with Samurai Weapons?

Ok, before you abandon this article as a thinly-veiled attempt to sell Martial Arts equipment with a weak connection to “health”, let me say this first: I do sell samurai weapons. I love promoting the industry and encouraging participation. The question is, why? I own an ad agency in New York City. I don’t need an e-commerce venture to survive. So what’s the deal?

I’ll take you on a very brief tour back to my days as a 7 year old. Unhappy. Neglected. Broken family, you know the drill. But I stumbled into a Tae Kwon Do class one day, and never looked back. Here was room filled with fit, disciplined, self-respecting people, and I ate it up like ice cream. It gave me focus, on-going goals, and the aforementioned self-respect.

Do I now believe that pursuing the Martial Arts is the answer to the health crisis in America. Well, yes, and no. No, because there are many tools we can use to allo

pt to sell Martial Arts equipment with a weak connection to “health”, let me say this first: I do sell samurai weapons. I love promoting the industry and encouraging participation. The question is, why? I own an ad agency in New York City. I don’t need an e-commerce venture to survive. So what’s the deal?

I’ll take you on a very brief tour back to my days as a 7 year old. Unhappy. Neglected. Broken family, you know the drill. But I stumbled into a Tae Kwon Do class one day, and never looked back. Here was room filled with fit, disciplined, self-respecting people, and I ate it up like ice cream. It gave me focus, on-going goals, and the aforementioned self-respect.

Do I now believe that pursuing the Martial Arts is the answer to the health crisis in America. Well, yes, and no. No, because there are many tools we can use to allo

e. So what’s the deal?

I’ll take you on a very brief tour back to my days as a 7 year old. Unhappy. Neglected. Broken family, you know the drill. But I stumbled into a Tae Kwon Do class one day, and never looked back. Here was room filled with fit, disciplined, self-respecting people, and I ate it up like ice cream. It gave me focus, on-going goals, and the aforementioned self-respect.

Do I now believe that pursuing the Martial Arts is the answer to the health crisis in America. Well, yes, and no. No, because there are many tools we can use to allo

people, and I ate it up like ice cream. It gave me focus, on-going goals, and the aforementioned self-respect.

Do I now believe that pursuing the Martial Arts is the answer to the health crisis in America. Well, yes, and no. No, because there are many tools we can use to allow health to happen. Yes, because it’s fun, and is based on the very tenants that 21st century USA is lacking: self-control, discipline, and respect.

Self-control requires discipline, and discipline is not something we gain watching American Idol and sucking down super-sized sugar drinks. By applying ourselves over time, and reigning in the urges that lead to the loss of health, we learn discipline. The study of Martial Arts is for me and many other people, a fun way to achieve the goals of fitness at the hand of discipline. More fun than repetitively lifting inanimate pieces of metal in solitude, or running on a gerbil wheel leading to nowhere. It involves other people, mentoring, self-mastery, physical torture that is exhilarating (certainly not boring!), and the effects of achievement carry over into every aspect of life.

Ok, so, samurai weapons, you say? It’s true that placing a Japanese Katana in the hands of an amateur would be more than a mistake. I’m certainly not advocating that. But have you ever looked at one? I mean an authentic Japanese katana? The workmanship of hand-forged and folded steel.