Starting at age 9, I felt a spiritual connection to the martial arts through a sense of beauty and purpose that was conveyed by some of my on-screen heroes. As a pre-radical American male child, my options for a sense of purpose in life included: sports jock, cop, fire-fighter, military service man, and martial artist vigilante.
As it often happens, some silly thing I was mulling over in the back of my mind has become supercharged by the stories of others, into something that resembles the complete genetic seed of a not-shabby idea.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
