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Back to school shopping is in full swing, in fact if you don’t get your local big box right now you might miss out on the best deals before they start filling their shelves with Halloween crap. Am I getting old, or didn’t we used to do back to school shopping the last two weeks [...]

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For years I’ve been telling students never to talk to the police when involved in a righteous self-defense incident. Why would I say that? First, I make a couple of assumptions. Because I’m dealing with terrific people at the Black Belt Mindset Institute at Northern Chi, I assume that if the police are asking you [...]

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Are you sure? Parental involvement is the single most important factor in the development of any child. Whether your child expresses bullying behavior or is a likely target of bullies is largely dependent on the ethics, values, behaviors, and sense of confidence you teach and model in the home. I recently appeared on Bill Corbett’s [...]

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WARNING- The following video is extremely disturbing. Frankly, this video should never have been shot; the person holding the camera should have dropped the damn camera and helped this girl… What is wrong with us? Two unarmed teenage girls terrorize a third young woman, apparently because she is trans-gendered, and beat her into a seizure [...]

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Agree or disagree? Violence IS sometimes a solution. Zero-Tolerance DOES NOT work. YOU may be a bully- even if you don’t do anything. If you’re a target, it may be YOUR fault. It’s time to take a realistic approach to the bullying issue, and we’re all involved whether we like it or not. Bullying is [...]

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The Black Belt Mindset Institute is collecting donations to support the continuing earthquake relief efforts in Japan. As martial artists we owe a great debt to Japanese culture and heritage. Your loose change and donations is a welcome way to support the Japanese people and show our appreciation for what we have borrowed from Japan. [...]

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Dateline NBC is airing a series of amazing experiments to show what happens when decent kids witness bullying. Will they stand up for the target? Will they pitch in and defend the target? Will they “mind their own business” and do nothing? There will always be bullies. While we constantly work to change the behavior [...]

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In 26 years in the study and practice of combat arts I have learned 2, and only 2 incontrovertible facts about fighting: Someone is going to get hurt. Probably both people. In San Antonio last week a community of students experienced these truths first-hand. Two students, by all accounts good kids, had a beef and [...]

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From Think Like a Black Belt: The Blog: 5 Steps to becoming a Black Belt parent… 1. Be the Sensei- Sensei literally means “one who went before.” That’s you! Share your wisdom and experience with your kids. They are wired to be independent, but they also appreciate your perspective when you take the time to [...]

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The ancient masters taught that martial arts practice was the key to expanding the mind as well as strengthening the body. Now scientists are starting to understand why. It seems that consistent practice actually creates significant changes in the brain. “Recently Claudio Del Percio of Sapienza University in Rome and his colleagues reported the results [...]

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