My mother sent me to Karate schools when I was a kid.
I guess she wanted you to learn how to protect yourself. How was karate school?
Perhaps so. It was very difficult since it required you to seek a deeper study of the art.
Nothing wrong with that. Was it quite physical or more philosophical?
I agree. There was a balance of both, which  served to greatly increase my appreciation for Karate.
Sounds as if your Mother did the right thing sending you there - you seemed to learn a lot.
escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from ("Chinese hand" or "Tang hand") to ("empty hand") – both of which are pronounced "karate" in Japanese – to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style. After World War II, Okinawa became an important United States military site and karate became popular among servicemen stationed there.
The martial arts movies of the 1960s and 1970s served to greatly increase the popularity of martial arts around the world, and
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According to the Daily Mirror she said: "I’d done a lot of work on how black boys underachieve in secondary schools so I knew what a serious problem it was. I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd. I realised they were subjected to peer pressure and when that happens it’s very hard for a mother to save her son. Once a black boy is lost to the