Akron Kids Martial Arts Blog - Zahand's Martial Arts

22 Feb 2025
Culture creates concrete learning

To begin, I had a pleasant surprise happen the other day at our belt ceremony. One of our best adult students, KellieRose, who moved away to pursue her career field made a visit to our ceremony. To celebrate, her, Ms Samantha (another amazing adult student and parent at the dojo), and myself went out for a bite and chatted about life. As conversation resumed, Sam asked KellieRose, "What is one of your favorite childhood memories?" KellieRose thought briefly honestly stating, "It's hard to for me to remember," to which I interjected, "Where do you have the MOST memories from in your childhood? I ask because where you have the most memories means you felt the safest in that environment ....
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9 Jan 2025
I'M NOT SPECIAL

I’m not special. Please read this email when you get a chance. It is quite long so enjoy a nice drink and feel free to get a little more insight on who I am, as you trust me with the most important thing in your life and mine, the kiddos. I always like to be as transparent as possible about who I am for you to know the community I wish to build here. To begin, I debated explaining this to all of you because it will take me talking about my accomplishments a bit, which I hate doing but it is necessary for you to understand my background. I sat and spoke with Sempai Keaton last night and explained some of this to him, as he is one of my finest teen ....
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2 Jan 2025
I'M ALWAYS GOOD

Lately, I have had numerous people ask me if I am doing alright. I don’t feel off or anything and feel I have talked more than I usually do, but apparently, according to people, I have been more quiet lately. When you hear something from multiple people, it should make you think if there is something about you then. Truthfully, I am always good. Life is good. I am extremely busy between training and teaching. There is not much more to it. The reason I bring this up, though, is I am SO GRATEFUL how many of you choose to look out for me and check in. When I do my follow ups, I have many parents say specifically, "How are YOU doing? You check in on us and we want to check in on ....
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26 Dec 2024
WHY MARTIAL ARTS

I was asked an interesting question on the phone on the other day from a lead that came in. A woman was looking for classes for her 11 year-old son. Her son had been dealing with some bullying issues as he is the type of child to wear his heart on his sleeve and get pushed around because of his kindness. I shared this quality when I was younger. The mother also explained how she wanted her son to have more confidence and a stronger backbone. She continued, "I know martial arts is kind of spiritual, too, right? Like it’s meant to be more in-tune with yourself. Why did you pick martial arts to be the thing you do? Like why is this the thing?" I took a second to digest her question, ....
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19 Dec 2024
YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK

You become what you think. I have been a human like everyone. I have harbored hatred and had to learn forgiveness. I have thought detriment to myself and others, which cost me physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. I have chosen before not to look into myself and chose to distract myself with falsehoods and pleasures. I have chosen otherwise and been granted prosperity from it. I am human like you, and I have learned we do become what we think. Feed your mind with fruitful thoughts and it will grow like a garden. Poison it and surely, the garden will fail. But it is a garden you can ALWAYS bring back to life. It starts with one seed at a time no matter how much darkness and ....
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12 Dec 2024
GRATEFUL

I want to say how grateful I am to have such good people and families within our dojo. I had the fortune of being invited to a bonfire with two of our finest families at the dojo over the weekend. They were so gracious in their hospitality, providing some tasty hot apple cider and the perfect thing for bonfires, SMORES! I am not a guy that gets out much due to my busy schedule and focus on the dojo. I can tell you, though, it was such a delight to sit down, relax, and just laugh with these amazing people. I got to hear some of the preposterous things that kids say when they are around each other lol, since three of the four children at the house are students at the dojo. It melted my heart ....
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5 Dec 2024
PEOPLE WILL JUDGE YOU

People will judge you without knowing you. People will hate when they see you’re doing better than them. People tear others down to make themselves feel better. But how do you counteract this? How do you not let it bother you when so many people do let it? Live an honest life and aim to always do good with it. If you know yourself, what you stand for, and everyday live to be the best version of yourself you can be, then your worst critic - yourself - will feel validated. It’s not easy. But being honest will allow for no one to dictate what others say or feel about you. And when you aim to give good to the world that can often be so cruel, no matter how mean the world can ....
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28 Nov 2024
MISSION STATEMENT

I wanted to share with all of you my mission statement and then explain in depth why that is. Our mission statement is: To permanently change people's lives for the better through veracity, family, and martial arts. I acknowledge this as my business's missions statement because one - karate has changed me and shown me how it PERMANENTLY changes people's lives for the better. I have students of MANY backgrounds over the years. To name a few, some students have come to me after being sold for sex and drugs. Some students have been through the foster system in more than 8 homes. Some students have been brutally jumped and beaten within inches of their lives. These traumatic events cause ....
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25 Nov 2024
How are you always so cheerful

"How are you always so cheerful?" Simple, I choose to be happy. I am just like you. I have my moments where I just feel off. I feel I am not happy. I feel not whole at certain moments. I used to dissociate and not live in the moment, yet be hyper successful in what I was doing. I had no memories of those successes, though, and never appreciated or lived in the moment as I wished I had. My body was in a constant fight, flight, or freeze sequence, but I learned how to operate in that heightened state anyway. It was not healthy, though effective. It took me years to counteract. So when I have moments where I feel off or am in my head too much, I ask myself how to get back on track and feel ....
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15 Oct 2024
SELF ADVANCEMENT

Comparison with others is useless. This practice only nags at us when we are unable to achieve someone else’s greatness and opens the door to jealousy, envy, greed, competition, and even hatred. Comparison with our best or higher self is what opens the door to true advancement and healing and positions us on the road to success. By improving our personal attributes and characteristics little by little, we then incrementally climb upwards to become our higher self. Begin in small ways. Simple things can and do make a profound difference. Ten items to consider for self-advancement are: Talk less, listen more. Watch less visual media, read more Sit less, move more. Eat less ....
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Culture creates concrete learning

I'M NOT SPECIAL

I'M ALWAYS GOOD

WHY MARTIAL ARTS

YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK

GRATEFUL

PEOPLE WILL JUDGE YOU

MISSION STATEMENT

How are you always so cheerful

SELF ADVANCEMENT

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