A burglary occurs every 12 seconds, an assault occurs every 29 seconds, a rape occurs every 5 minutes, and a murder occurs every 24 minutes. The majority of us know someone, know of someone or ourselves have either been physically confronted or felt “unsafe” at some point in our life. We like to think it [...]

When I started in the martial arts, over six years ago now, I did it to have fun with my (then) four year-old son.  I’ve always been an athletic person, but the martial arts was not something I ever really considered doing.  Growing up in a traditional Asian-American household, it was uncommon for girls to [...]