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Month: March 2023

“You think it’ll last forever, people and cars and concrete, but it won’t. One day it’s all gone. Even the sky”.

“You think it’ll last forever, people and cars and concrete, but it won’t. One day it’s all gone. Even the sky”. . Time does not care about anything but moving forward. What do the martial arts offer the aging student? . Young practitioners mostly see karate, or the martial arts in general, as something I…

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