Samurai Karate Studio: Recent Comments

Comment on SKS Karate Students Perform Community Service

Kristi — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:12:40 GMT

Our most recent community contribution was a donation of goods consisting of clothing items and household items that are in good or new condition. We donated them to Goodwill Industries. Rather than store unused items such as these, I would much prefer to know that they are going to a place where it is likely that someone will find something that they need.
Additionally, William and I were planning to volunteer our time at either the Columbia Family Shelter or Habitat for Humanity. However, we were unable to schedule a visit with the shelter in the timeframe we needed, and Habitat currently has no active builds in the Columbia area. Hopefully we will be able to work something out with one or both of these organizations in the future.
Further service that we have performed in the past includes donating blood to the American Red Cross whenever we are eligible. This is an opportunity that involves a resource which can mean the difference between life and death for an individual, so we feel that it is important to provide it whenever possible. Our last donation was on July 30th, and we will be eligible again near the end of September.
One non-Columbia centric volunteer opportunity I encountered was with an organization called FurKids. They are the largest no-kill, no-cage animal shelter in Georgia. On August 16th, I had the pleasure of joining a regular volunteer for an afternoon and spending nearly two hours socializing with the cats that were in the adoption center at a PetSmart in Atlanta, GA. While socialization primarily entails playing with these felines, it also helps them to become more used to humans, allowing them to be more likely to find a suitable new home.
The opportunities for community service both within and outside of the Columbia area are numerous. While it is often easy to make excuses as to why one can not participate in service opportunities due to other time commitments, the awareness of the needs fulfilled through the donation of time, money, and/or effort is rewarding.

Comment on Martial Artists Celebrate Memorial Day 2008

good deed by Joseph — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:11:40 GMT

Yestreday I helped my little sister on Taigo1 and with kick drill#1.And also her kicks .

Comment on Black Belt Committment In the Martial Arts

Amanda Schwarz — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:08:34 GMT

My name is Amanda Schwarz. I will be testing for my Orange Belt tomorrow morning. For my Good Deed I did the following things:

I wrote a letter to my Great Grandma Terri who has been in the hospital in NY telling her all about my trip to Georgia.

I helped my Mommy Cook dinner for Daddy

I helped the teachers at Day Care Clean up after lunch and snack with out being asked.

I had fun doing all of these good deeds and want to try to keep doing at least one new good deed everyday. It makes me feel good knowing I helped someone else and made them happy.

Comment on Chosing Healthy Snacks

Pure Food Good Energy — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:07:46 GMT

Choosing healthy snacks is always a hot topic with clients, because this is often where we sabotage our efforts to eat healthy. The truth is that our society doesn't make it easy to be healthy - especially in the snack category. At practically every street corner it's easy to find cookies, chips, and ice cream. It's not so easy to find snacks that are made from whole foods (grains, nuts, vegetables, fruits, etc.)

Comment on The Martial Arts & ADHD

Tammy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:51:54 GMT

I couldn't agree with you more Brian. You said it perfectly!!!!! Kudos to Sensei!!!!!

Comment on The Martial Arts & ADHD

Samurai Karate Studio — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:53:36 GMT

From Sensei Feldt

Thank you Brian for the kind words. You have a wonderful family and I am blessed to have you as part of my karate family!

Comment on The Martial Arts & ADHD

Brian Rennert — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:37:19 GMT

I agree wholeheartedly with Sensei on this topic. As an Army recruiter, I tend to find a surprisingly large amount of our youth being classified or medicated for ADD or ADHD. I feel personally that there is no change between the youth today or the youth of 20-30 years ago. What has changed is the outlet for the young ones. Kids turn to video games or computers for an outlet instead of participating in physical sports that will capitalize on their excessive energy. Sensei Feldt's studio provides an excellent outlet for these kids to expend energy as well as provide greater focus. He is an outstanding instructor of the martial arts and provides the patience and experience to teach anyone and does it all in an environment that is conducive to learning. Thank you Sensei for all that you do. My family and I love your studio and appreciate the opportunity to learn and transform under your leadership and guidance.

Comment on Conflict Avoidance

Samurai Karate Studio — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:43:32 GMT

From Sensei Feldt:

Thank you Tammy for the kind words. You have an amazing daughter who not only is a wonderful representative of the martial arts community but a great kid as well! She has incredible potential in and outside the dojo!

My master, O'Sensei Earwood, a 10th degree black belt, taught me that the martial arts is a personal journey and the color of one's belt is really not important; it is the content of their character that matters. Our belts are just testimony to a passage of time! I appreciate how supportive you and your husband have been of my teaching philosophy and I love the fact that you really "get it"!

O'Sensei Earwood, who has taught for nearly 40 years, and promoted hundreds of students, has a tradition of starting all his new students at white belt regardless of their rank from another studio or style. I am going to honor his tradition!

My goal is to develop every student that walks through my doors to their fullest potential, to be confident about themselves; and yes, be able to defend themselves if necessary! If this is a philosophy that offends anyone, I am sorry; but they probably should look for one of those studios that is more about fitness and games.

"Live by the Code"

Comment on Conflict Avoidance

Tammy — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:31:42 GMT

To anyone reading these blogs wondering if this studio would be for you, let me tell you how we think. I have a daughter that loves martial arts. She started taking Tae Kwon Do in NY when she was 5. We moved to Georgia when she was 6 and switched to American Karate. While living in Georgia she received her Red Belt only to have us once again move to South Carolina. Once we were here we found another Studio that offered American Karate so we joined her up again and she finally received her black belt. Wanting to continue her experience in the martial arts we began looking into other studios. We called up Sensei Feldt and from the beginning we had a good feeling about his studio and his practices. We have had several negative comments made to us about him starting my daughter out as a white belt, but as any good studio will tell you, when you join a new studio, there are so many different forms to actually learn that you need to start at the beginning. Sensei has always been careful to treat my child as a black belt and rewards her for her hard work and dedication to the Martial Arts. She is not treated as a white belt but as an equal. She has been made a part of the Studio family before she ever actually joined the studio. If you're looking for a studio with that family feel and an instructor that truly loves all of his kids, then Samurai Karate Studios is for you!!!!!!!