Being a Leader

Being a leader involves being out in front of the crowds and that most likely includes being on the edges of creativity. The person who follows the crowds, will usually get no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone, taking paths that are less traveled, is...

Learning to Tie a Karate Belt

Learning to Tie A Karate Belt One of the first difficult techniques every new martial arts student must learn is that of learning to tie their karate belt (referred to as an ‘obi’ in the Okinawan tradition). The karate belt, or obi, wasn’t introduced...

Sensei Roscoe’s Teaching Philosophy

Unfortunately when I began training in the Martial Arts back in 1982, the average rate of completing your black belt was one in a hundred. This was especially true in the more traditional arts of Japanese and Okinawan Karate. I can remember attending classes that were...

Karate Academy Online Kick-Off!

After teaching in excess of 800 students over the past 30 plus years, Sensei Mark Roscoe has designed a program to leverage the advancements in online learning along with his own experiences of distance learning. These elements combined with the continued advancement...