Martial Arts

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Quotes

• A black belt is nothing more than a belt that goes around your waist. Being a black belt is a state of mind and attitude. (Rick English)
• Caution: I know Karate...and six other Japanese words!
• Follow not in the footsteps of the masters, but rather seek what they sought.
• For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline. (Brandon Lee)
• He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position. (Ed Parker)
• Karate begins and ends with respect. (Master Anko Itosu)
• Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end. (Gichin Funakoshi)
• Karate is a form of marital arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. (Dave Barry)
• Karate is for life, not points. (David Walker)
• Karate is not about winning. It's about not losing. (Master Shigetoshi Senaha)
• No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life. (Master Gichin Funakoshi)
• Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there. (Duk Sung Son, Black Belt Korean Karate)
• 'Ow' is not a Kempo word. (Jonathan Vance)
• Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class. (Hong Hi Choi, Founder of Tae kwon-Do)
• Philosophy of Tae Kwon Do:
  To improve character, attitude and manners. To learn self respect and to project these attitudes toward family, society and nation.
• A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve. It should not be used indiscriminately. (Master Chotoku Kyan)
• The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred. (Jigoro Kano, founder of Judo)
• There are two rules for being successful in Martial Arts. Rule 1: Never tell others everything you know.
• The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory or defeat but in the perfection of the character of its participants. (Gichin Funakoshi)
• You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do. (Gichin Funakoshi)

Wrestling

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I wrestle with demons of doubt. With my past failures. With my injuries. With that unrelenting voice that tells me to stop. But I am a wrestler and one thing is certain. I will be victorious.

Wrestling

NO 1/2 time
NO substitutions
NO time outs
NO excuses

Page Ideas

• Cut pictures into circles and mount on squares of paper. Use design line stickers stripes around edges of square to replicate the wrestling mat. You could also make a big wrestling mat out of the entire page with a big circle of colored paper in the center and 1/4 strips around the sides of the page. Use school or team colors and just mount the pictures on top. (Jenni ID)
• (added by Julie): I take pictures of the clothes, i.e. state T-shirt, team shirt, whatever (for all sports, or memorabilia actually) and then cut them out. I put that on the page with my pics cut in circles. Then I use letters, die cut or stickers (in the school colors) and make his name and weight he wrestled.
• I have a customer who has done several wrestling pages. The group picture - She cut out around/over the tops of the kids in the photo as a group and drew a bleacher and placed them on it. It looked like they were seated on that. She cut a mat out of PMP (black) and drew a wrestling mat using the silver pen and cut out around her son wrestling and positioned him on the mat in several different areas. They were the small far away shots. Use the school colors of course. (JL in KS)
• My husband is a wrestling coach and I did an album for the team of the year. I made a wrestling mat (a large square) and then used the system to make a large ring with the largest circle and then a small ring with a smaller circle and put those on the mat just like a real mat looks and put our school's letter in the middle of the small circle so it looked just like our mat. Used the team pennant die cuts across the top of a page and used the abc stickers to put our mascot name in them. (Tracy in IA)
• Use Shortcut strips and triangles in school colors, mount any copied newspaper articles on school color PMP (reduced to fit if needed), certificates can be placed in photo mounting sleeves or Portrait Pages or mounted directly on page using corners or tape runner or trimmed and mounted on PMP using school colors once again or make the center circle of a wrestling mat. We used the same colors as what is on our school's wrestling mat. We made the circle out of main color which is black and then used CCS largest circle and blue and green blase to make a 'ring' to go on the circle. We then placed school initials in center so that it looked just like it does on the wrestling mat. Cut the circle in half and place in center of two pages if doing a double page spread. I went to LLS to get wrestling stickers. There is a 'strip' of wrestling stickers that is similar to a Design line. One says wrestling on it with wrestlers and the other just has wrestlers on it. Place each one of these strips on long Short Cut piece of PMP of your school colors or make your own strips and use them for title for your pages. Use title blocks and put some of the wrestling stickers or ABC stickers on title block for where the meet was held.

A Wrestler? Oh, No!

When first he said unto me,
"A wrestler is what I want to be,"
I did not know, I did not see,
All I knew was from TV
"Oh, darling boy" I cried in fright,
"Wrestling is such a terrible sight.
They bite, they gouge, they kick, they scratch."
"But, Mother Dear, that's called a match."
"Please, dear son, consider track,
That won't make you blue and black,
Or basketball, it requires great skill,
At least they don't scream kill, kill."

All of my pleads were to no avail.
A wrestler he would be without fail.
I fussed, I screamed, I really went on a tear,
But all he said was, "Mother, don't be a square."
So about wrestling I tried to learn,
The midnight oil I did burn.
My son now thought I was a pretty hipped mother.
I read all I could, I listened with both ears,
What I learned about sets, and falls and pins,
I learned about takedowns, decisions and wins,
I never missed a match, even out of town,
Where my son was wrestling, there I could be found.
I can hardly wait for next season to start,
Because now I'm wrestling's biggest fan,
For there's no greater sport in all the land.

Why Wrestle?

Wrestling prepares a person to fight the game of life. The wrestler is the one athlete that must meet his opponent and do battle completely on his own; no one can substitute; no time outs are possible, He has no on to check, screen, block, or assist him in any way; there is no one to blame for his mistakes. When he wins, he must show quiet pride and modesty. When he loses the responsibility is his. Wrestling is a true sport. In other sports, when contact is made, they blow the whistle to stop the action; in wrestling, when contact is made, we're just getting started. No other sport requires more sacrifice than wrestling. The individual, through self-denial, offers more of his character than ever be explained here. It is something he carries with him throughout life, and through every trial, test, and tribulation.

Boxing

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Quotes

• At home I am a nice guy-but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far. (Muhammad Ali)
• Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. (Muhammad Ali)
• Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed. (Tommy Farr)
• It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. (Muhammad Ali)
• No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room. (Muhammad Ali)
• There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up. (Muhammed Ali)

Some of the wrestling page ideas can be modified for boxing.

Fencing

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• Don't Fence Me In
• On the Fence
• Sword Play
• Zorro in Training