Kirkwood Judo Club Blog

Congratulations to Sensei Derick Wellman, and all of the folks at the Wellman/White Dragon Judo Club. In the next few weeks not only will they have their new Karate Program up, and running, but they are also moving to a new bigger location.

The Grand Opening for the New Facility is scheduled for July 29th, and I wouldn't at all be surprised to see a lot of Kirkwood Judo Club faces in the crowd.

• White Dragon Martial Arts Grand Opening! 

On July 29th we will be having our dojo's Grand Opening!  This event will be huge, including a local club shiai judo competition, judo and karate exhibitions, and more! More info to come, stay posted!

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Ok, I have to admit it, I'm an not the kind of guy who reads every book he can get his hands on, and as proof of that I have a 20 gigabyte MP3 player installed in my car so that I can listen to Audiobooks as I drive.

Sad I know, but let's face it who has the time to read anymore?

Anyway that said I think it is noteworthy that in my limited reading I once came across a quote so profound that it not only is a part of my judo philosohy but is in fact a part of my every day life's philosophy as well  Check it out:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt. "Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910