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While visiting my brother outside of Portland, Oregon a couple of months ago, I signed both of my boys up for an introduction to karate lesson, something they have asked about for some time. For just under a half hour, they spent time with Alex, the sensei of Next Generation Karate, who put them through a number of drills while talking to them about the ideas behind karate. I watched from outside the dojo, talking to his business manager at the desk — who happened to be his mother. She talked to me about how he had come to karate at age 11, and fallen in love with it immediately. How he apprenticed at another dojo to understand how to run the business. How dojos can vary — some “McDojo’s” promise a black belt in a few years, regardless of actual accomplishment — and how they maintain challenging standards at their dojo. “Our mission is to build discipline,” she explained. “Karate is the way that we do that.”
Gearing up for a fall of speaking engagements, and couldn’t be more excited!
The website offers the official position of the dojo, going even deeper conceptually: “Our premier…
