Practicing Martial Arts has been my life’s dream and I have been practicing traditional Okinawan Karate for the last decade under thoughtful and skillful karate master Takao Nakaya, Shihan. For me karate is not only about mastering karate skills and techniques but also about perfecting my character. You can be assured of my patience and understanding of the need for individual instruction and recognition of everyone’s difference in pace of learning.

I have been practicing karate for the past eight years, and in those eight years I have learned a lot! I have learned self and body control, patience, respect, and, determination. All of these things help me in my training and also in my everyday life. I have learned to apply these life skills to everything I do. This is also what drove me to want to teach children with special needs. Because everyone deserves to learn these things no matter their differences in learning and abilities. Through karate practice everyone can learn more; they can learn about the origin of karate, its values, and how to work with others. I also enjoy doing this because I love to see the satisfaction of the students when they move up a belt they have been working so hard for.