This Post marks the end of my senior project, The Effectiveness of the Martial Arts. As with all things it has come to an end, but, I am told every end is a new beginning so I look forward optimistically. It has been wonderful participating in this independent research project - studying and training in not only something I care about deeply, but also a field of study that is ancient. I am sure that the first cavemen had their own system of martial arts to defend themselves from whatever threats they would face. I want to thank all the instructors and schools who allowed me to come and train with them over the course of my project. Sempai Erno, Sensei Poage, Mr. Barto, Mr. Jirov, Mr. Moylan, and Mr. C as my instructors and the Kyokushin Karate school, The Peaceful Warrior Martial Arts and Healing Center, Reality Defense Training, The Koncrete Gym, Z Ultimate Self-Defense and of course Depalma's Team USA Martial Arts as the schools I Visited. I thank Mr. Nishan for being my project advisor from school and also my school for allowing me such an opportunity to learn. I would like to thank all of my readers, even though I started the project for school I finished it for all of you. I will attempt to upload my finished presentation to my blog so everyone can check it out, look for it at the end of May. Thank You,
Mr. Waaler
Statement of Purpose
This project is an investigation of 5 Martial Arts styles. Self-defense is a major theme in martial arts today and to better understand how different martial arts schools and styles treat self-defense I am going to learn all I can (given time restraints) about each of the five styles. These schools will be chosen from a list of local martial arts studios, and the style will be the one that is taught at that studio. Many studios teach multiple styles, so in this case on of the styles taught there will be analyzed. At the end of the project all the schools I visited will be rated and scored to show in which areas they excel or by contrast, fall short.
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