April 7, 2025

National Limb-loss & Limb Difference

National Limb-loss & Limb Difference

Limb-loss, limb difference, proclamations, awareness, advocacy

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Limb-loss, limb difference, proclamations, awareness, advocacy

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Amen, Amen, Amen, and men.

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Good evening, good evening, good evening. Yeah, and we're here.

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It's April. April is here, March is gone. May is

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just around the corner. It's just around the corner. Literally,

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summer is approaching. Summer is here.

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Let's get it this list. Just face the facts, face

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the facts. Anyway. Let's pray.

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First, Lord, we just thank you when we praise you,

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we give you glory, for you alone are worthy to

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be praised. We thank you for your love, your saving grace,

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your mercy, your forgiveness, oh, your forget for forgetting our sins.

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We just thank you and.

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That you you course correct us every every single step

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we take, even when we were about to veer off,

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you gently yank us back and help us to stay focused. Lord,

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we need you more than ever before. And we're gonna

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say that every day until I take my last breath,

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because you know we need you. We can't do it

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without you. We're not going to do it without you.

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We love you so much. Now this is your podcast.

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This is your one of many times to speak to

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your people, and we thank you. We're gonna get behind

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the cross. We're gonna wait with expectation and bait it breath.

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We love you so much and we give you the praise.

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Do what you do best.

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Lord, set your captors free. In the name of Jesus,

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we pray, and the church said amen and amen.

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Amen. Hey y'all, how y'all's doings right? That's all? Okay, yeah, okay, okay,

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Well we'll waiting. There she is, she is.

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This is our guest tonight, and I'm gonna stand up

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a little bit so you can see I'm representing. There

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you go representing. That was the last minute costume change.

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I was wearing something else that God said no.

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Put this on to represent both of you.

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So anyway, she's coming in as soon as we can

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get her face on here and.

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All that good stuff. This is Uh Sahun.

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I call her sahoun, the Korean title for uh, your

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instructor in taekwondo, but most folks know her as Master

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G and Master G.

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I'm undo your.

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Camera so we can see you, please, so they'll know

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you're real. Okay, Well, I'm gonna talk a little bit

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about her and just amazing. I met her at the

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AMPT Coalition conference that was held.

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Two years ago. Yes, can you see us? Can you wave?

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She's getting there, She's getting there.

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Anyway, I met her at the conference, and I think

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I shared with you all at some point. I saw

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the itinerary and they said, you know, self defense, and

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I was like, well, that wasn't fair. My occupational therapist

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came and I said that wasn't fair. They had her

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at seven o'clock in the morning, and I'm.

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Like, that's just for the conference people. That's staying here.

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I'm not driving nowhere at seven o'clock in Orlando, okay,

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and expected to be there seven. So I was a

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little upset with that, but I went on and it

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chose my other courses and she my ot and I

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met up after our second course, I think, and I said,

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oh my god, they changed. I looked at the marquee

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and they had changed, and they had placed the Taekwondo

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demonstration is self defense at eleven o'clock that morning. I

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forgot about everything, and I said, I got to be there.

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I got to Now.

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Some people almost ran me over with their little hover arounds.

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That's another story, yeah, but they were anxious to get there.

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It was and say, can you hear me? Can you

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hear you? Look frozen? Speak?

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It's gonna get crazy. It's okay, it's okay. Oh dear,

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you're freezing up over there, but it's okay.

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We can let's see if we can hear you. Can

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we hear you? Okay? Now, if you have to go

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back out off and come on on your phone, that's fine.

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We'll be here. But anyway, and it was awesome.

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She had us breaking boards, She had us breaking boards.

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She even taught how to take someone in.

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Someone's knife from around your neck. It was really interesting

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and I was just so excited to be there, and

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I was like wow. And at the end, I took

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her card, her business card, and I looked and she's here.

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She's here in Longwood. She's around the corner almost, and

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I'm like, oh my gosh, she's here. I'm thinking they

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flew her in from out of state, like these other

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speakers and stuff like that.

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She's right here.

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And I'm gonna tell you about her. Her uh, her

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nonprofit and the arts itself. It's a charity Empowered to

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Save Souls and home of the world class taekwondo with

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Master g And she's big on empowerment, community and transformation,

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coming together through the scientific principles of authentic taekwondo.

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And powerful self and powerful self defense.

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And she is That is definitely what you see when

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you walk into the arena and there's other students that

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are there are just remarkable and I know, like myself,

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I'm sure they're like they never thought that they would

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be able to do the arts at all at all.

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And here you walk into the arena with her. She

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teach you.

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You bow in and she gets started, and you feel like, hey,

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I can do this, he can do this.

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So who can you speak? Try talking? No, I don't

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know what's wrong by on your phone.

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Okay, well she's gone, let me text her real quick

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at tell her to trial on her phone. Okay, try

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on your phone now as I And I'm sorry.

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I was just so excited that that.

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April is National Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month.

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We've got the whole month and the color is orange.

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The only real live advocate body that really embraces limb

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loss limb difference.

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Is the Amputee Coalition. They they are the only ones.

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They're the main.

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Ones that they are nonprofit as well. They include everybody,

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all ages, if you have a limb loss or you

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have a limit, if you experience a limb difference, a

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lot of advocacy.

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They've allowed us to some of us to excuse me,

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become lead advocates for our state. I've shared with y'all.

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I accidentally did that, I mean to I.

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Was involved in a community meeting online and they said, yeah,

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I go to our website. So you go to the

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website and they're like, oh, and if you click on

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lead advocate, you know, and check that out. So they're

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talking and you know, answering question. So I was just

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you know, looking around the website like we do, and uh,

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sure enough, took a quiz and uh, next thing I know,

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I got a certificate of being a lead advocate.

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Now it's not that easy anymore. They beefed it up.

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A bit, but I was like, oh, I don't mean

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to do that. There she is, she's moving and everything.

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Listen, okay, do not work.

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Oh oh, you see how the devil is. You see

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how the devil is.

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Nobody's stopping me.

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Man, Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Guys.

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Let's welcome, master g But I call her sahoon sah yeah.

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Say so. It's like, yeah, let's get her around to

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the far banks. I represent it.

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I thought you'd have your on yourself, but that's okay.

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God changed me at the last minute, so it's all good.

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But I gave them a brief idea and now I'm

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gonna go mute, and I'm gonna let you do some

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talking here. But if you could tell us what's on

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your heart, but also include your seventh degree and what

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that means to the world.

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And why taekwondo for our population. But you already know

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where you need to go. So I'm gonna mute because,

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like you know, I can out talk anybody.

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There you go, here we go, and I love your voice.

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Everyone can hear me. Okay, yes, yeah, back up just

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a bit here. Thank you so much for having me.

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I did watch a few of you not watch, but

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I listened to a few of your shows. So it's

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really nice to put a face with the name. So

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thank you both for having me and Chaplin Gray, of course,

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thank you for having me. Why taekwondo? This is just

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something that started when I was ten years old. My

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mother had put us into a lot of different different things.

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She was a single mom at the age of thirty

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three because my father had fallen victim to gun violence

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at the age of thirty six.

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So she kept us busy, kept us.

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Busy, my sister, I say us, my sister and I

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kept busy. We did all kinds of different things, horseback riding, rollers, skating,

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all these dance and then it was martial arts. And

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after two years of martial arts, she said, okay, that's it.

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You got to pick something because all this is too expensive.

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What are we going to do?

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And it was martial arts for me. From there forward,

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I never stopped. I never turned back, I never strayed.

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I stuck with the founder and creator, General Cha Hunghe.

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Taekwondo turned seventy years old this year, just to March

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twenty second. Taekwondo, yeah, seventy years. It's the most modern

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form of martial art. I don't count something like a

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UCL for mixed martial arts, and these are not your

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traditional you know there are mixed martial arts, So a

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taekwondo it was for me. General Cha the founder signed

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my first, second, third, and fourth degrees. Beyond that he

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passed in two thousand and two, and then his predecessor,

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the second highest rank in the whole world, Grandmaster of

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Hung Kwong Sung, still alive and kicking well. And I'll

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see him on April sixteenth, in fact in Connecticut. Can't

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wait to see him again. Give him a big old hug.

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He has signed my fifth, sixth, and seventh degrees. The

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seventh degree is quite important because a few reasons. In

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our Taekwondo federation, many different taekwondos. Just like jeanes or

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cell phones. You have a smartphone, but then you have

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an Android and an iPhone.

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When it comes to.

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Genes, you may have like a jordash And I'm going

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to say, Sassoon, I'm dating myself here. Different types, different variation,

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So we have taekwondo, but in multiple variations. There's a

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lot of what you would call mik do jangs out there.

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We're an authentic, original itf Taekwondo School. Our World Training

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Center is in Lake Mary, Florida. We do a lot

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of great work there and we also partner with about

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seven nonprofits, some of them are listed here on our

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board doing those things here in central Florida. But the

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Taekwondo in our federation, you don't become master until seventh degree.

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The word in Korean is sahung and that is a

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seventh degree. So first, second, third degree are called novice.

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For a black belt, fourth, fifth, sixth degree that's an instructor,

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seventh and eighth degree that is a master, so a

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master of my art and skill. And that took me

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thirty eight years to attain. And that's about five more

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years than it would or any other male doing the

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same thing that I'm doing. Absolutely so it took a

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lot longer. My sister and I were also the very

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first female black belts in that school back in nineteen

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eighty five, and I still today where my black belt

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that was issued in nineteen eighty five. It used to

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go around me twice. It used to have my maiden

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name on it that has since ripped off in my hand,

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not on purpose, but it ripped off on a tie

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one day, and I let it go because I'm not

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that person anymore. And today Master g that's my title,

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and one of three female masters in our federation, the

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Unified International Taekwondo Federation, under Grandmaster of Huang Kwang Song.

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And yeah, he's so beautiful. The man changed so many lives.

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His global initiatives span one hundred and sixty two countries.

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I mean, just incredible. One of three females. I'm going

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to have the opportunity and privilege to meet my counterpart

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in Australia this weekend. In fact, it'll be in Connecticut. No,

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not in Connecticut, Union City, New Jersey. I'll be meeting

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Master I and d Smith. And she's one of those

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three now on the whole. After General Cha the founder passed,

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a lot of people kind of came creeping out of

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the woodwork and creating their own itf federation. You know

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this happens when a leader falls and people felt privileged,

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I guess to create their own one being his son,

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General Chase Son. That's one organization and there's about three

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to four other organizations out there. Amongst all the organization,

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I'm only one of twelve female masters.

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And that just blows my mind. Right, we just ladies.

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we take care of so much. So most of the

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women do drop out. They drop out. One student in particular,

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she's a snowbird here in Florida, seventy one years old,

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and she dropped out for twenty whole years and then

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came back and now she's a fifth degree Tudous to her.

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I don't know that she'll still be, you know, doing more,

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but seventy one years old, fifth degree is pretty impressive.

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So that is why taekwondo.

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Taekwondo has given me everything, a platform from which to

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stand on. It's given me strength, empowerment, it's given me

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the ability to empower In only the last four years,

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seventy five hundred individuals with these programs. And that is

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I say the last four years because that's the only

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time it's been a nonprofit. I ran a school for

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twenty five years before converting it into a profit. Turning

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it into the nonprofit changed my world, changed my world

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and impacted all of these people, including miss Gray so

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thank you so much.

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Well, I tell you, and I've told my co host

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and our audience forever that when it comes to martial arts,

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I was in see Goldjaru, which is hard karate and

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a whole different habit everything. And I used to pick

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at folks, the competitors that did taekwondo because to.

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Me, they were hands and feet. And I know, and

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it was a lady.

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We were at a competition back in my hometown and

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this lady, I kept saying to my colleague, they're nothing

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but hands and feet. There's nothing but and this lady said,

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all martial arts, ha hand if he does, said, no,

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they are hands and feet. And when he saw what

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I was doing, he went on and he kept getting

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his points and he won the start. And this is

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the second time in my whole life that God has said, Okay,

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now you've been picking at these folks for a long time.

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Ain't nobody else thinking about limb lost folk or limb

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difference folk or people who transport differently.

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And then you come to the conference a conference.

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My first time going, I was very nervous because I

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I've become a part of this population of amputeeism, and

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you know, I'll get all the stairs and everything else.

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But on my vision I have not because you asked

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not vision board.

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I do have on there to get a black belt

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and that at the time in tai chi, and you know,

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because tai chi is so pretty, but you can it's

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a movement, it's an art, and so it's.

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Still on there. And trust me, I did not know how.

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God was going to open any door for that, because

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not only with tai chi, you mainly have to go

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out of the country almost to get a black belt

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in that. And so net Loan is somebody here doing that.

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And then I went, I saw your description of your

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workshop and I said, and I told Christina, I said,

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look now it got self defense with martial arts for us.

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And it's at seven o'clock in the morning, you know,

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And was like, what are they doing? That's one of

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those other folk and stuff.

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And if you don't mind sharing caring, how did the

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amputee coalition find you?

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I'm going to show you what what miracles look like.

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This is absolutely another miracle in motion. So I was awarded.

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It took me about six months to apply for and

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be awarded the Google ad Grant for my nonprofit didn't

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know what I was doing, doing the best I can.

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I'm a little techye, but not overly techie.

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But I did everything I could to try to use

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the ten thousand dollars a month of Google ad grant

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dollars to get the mission out there to Central Florida,

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Central Florida. I cut it out about a twenty five

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mile radius because I didn't know what I was doing.

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You know, I figured my workshops all take place here

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in Central Florida, so let me go ahead and do

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that twenty five months. I figured it was going to

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be better for me. So one day I'm shopping in

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home depot for my flowers. I love to garden. It

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gives me peace, and I pick up the phone. Some

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the beautiful lady says to me, can you talk about

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self defense for an hour? Of course, yes, ma'am. How

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can I help? And she says, well, we're calling out

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of Washington, DC, and we found you, and we think

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you're the perfect person to come on in and introduce

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inclusive martial arts to the limb loss and limb difference community.

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or limb difference before. I had seen some videos online

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some people doing the work. Incredible people with a loss

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of one leg places where they don't have prosthetics, so hopping, jumping,

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skipping everything, fighting, breaking boards, all on one leg. These

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folks are featured on my tube channel and just amazing. So,

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you know, I show up, they tell me seven in

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the morning, and I complained a little bit, but it

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was such a blessing.

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I didn't want to complain.

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I just said, this is the earliest I've ever done

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a class, even summer camp back with Grandmaster Huang. We

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did not start until eight am. And that was year

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after year after year in the hot sun doing what

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we did, and we didn't start until eight am. But

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at seven am and there we were, and miss Gray,

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you shared your story with me in class one. You

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saw the description, you had a difficult time getting there,

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You got there, you were seated in that audience. There

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was about one hundred people seated in that audience. That

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YouTube is also on and in fact, you may even

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seen Miss Gray break in a board. Something about her

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stood out to me. She wasn't even in a center aisle.

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She we just made eye contact, and I'm like, yeah, okay,

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I'm gonna go I'm gonna go walk over to her,

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and I did to show. The first technique that I

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teach everybody is your palm heel. This is something that

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any self defense class they're going to tell you about.

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The palm heel. This is your own human weapon. So

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let me go ahead and debunk right there about taekwondo

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being all about the hands beat only. I'm gonna go

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ahead and quote Grandmaster Miguel Reyes, our current president, and

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he said it so beautifully. He says, Taekwondo is not

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just about hands and feet. Taekwondo is a philosophy, a history,

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it's a meditation, it's a pathway to human perfection, and

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it's also a pathway to world championships. There's so much

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more to it than just hands and feet. There's a

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whole mind body connection, the movement that we do, and

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all of these things that we do. So it is

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definitely way more well rounded than just the hands and

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the feet, including starting with your breath, starting with our breath.

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So getting back to the palm, he'll strike, this is

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something that we develop our whole life.

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Every time you push something, you're using it, every time

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you fall on something, you're using it. This is your

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weapon that nobody can take away from you. So and

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to prove that this is a strong weapon that you

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never ever have to practice using or develop. Like the

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knuckles you have to develop punch, but the palm he'll know.

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And even at a time, I did not know of

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miss Gray's finger loss, I didn't know that. I see

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the amputee arm on one side. You know, in a

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conference where there's a thousand people with limb laws, you know, Okay,

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I walk over to her. She looks at me with

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this look. You can see it, I think in the

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video as well. Oh no, she's not picking me? Does

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she pick me? I walked right over to her, and yes, ma'am,

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here's the board you try and boom there she did

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for a shot, I believe, maybe second because you were nervous,

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but got right through that board. And just the incredible,

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because I get so much of the shock factor. The

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people who do these and execute these techniques had no

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idea that they were capable of doing such a thing.

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The following that was Orlando.

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The following year, in Atlanta, Georgia, there was an eighty

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one year old man in a scooter, double amputee on

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the legs and he said to me after the class,

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he said, I had no idea I could do such things.

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You changed my life.

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And I just brought tears to my eyes because it's

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another miracle emotion. I've had nonverbal speak after three years

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of being in my class. I've had a blind person

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who fell in love with breaking boards. He loves to

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break boards. Cerebral palsy students breaking boards getting up out

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of their chair to get on the podium for the

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winner's podium for their metal for competition, just amazing things.

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Amazing an amputee, I share one story if I may,

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Is it okay? You have another question?

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An MPTU came to me. She did martial arts like

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you miss Gray before before her incident, and she was

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about to lose the second leg. And she told me

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that she shared with me in about two weeks time,

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she was going to lose her second leg and she

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went ahead and broke the board on her right side,

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no problem. I asked her to do her left side

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and she says, I'm really not comfortable with that. And

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I looked her square in the eye, because this is

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after I already had the experience of teaching all of

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those people in Orlando. I looked her straight in the

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eye and I said, ma'am, you're about to lose another limb.

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I think it's important now that you start using your

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left hand. So we started like hesitantly. We started with

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the yellow board, that's the small board, and we started

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with the blueboard, and then we did the red board.

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She worked her way up to the blackboard, and she

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was in tears. I was in tears because she got

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through that blackboard and the way that we both kind

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of saw it, she walked out there with another limb,

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the one she wasn't using, the one she wasn't going

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to lose. And that was just a beautiful thing to.

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Go on and on with story. Do you want more story?

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I got one more story?

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Good one. Okay, well, I want to add this part.

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Now.

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You couldn't miss me because I had on a lime

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green shirt T shirt. You couldn't. I just got to

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say that that's the picture we got that she took

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up all of us the lime green I told my

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can you pick me out wales? Well though, okay, next story.

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Oh yeah, there was a woman who had just gotten

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new prosthetics, and she was very wobbly, very wobbly, walking wobbly.

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they're kicking, front kick, they're hitting targets, they're doing stuff.

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Even a young boy. I'll never forget this boy. That's

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a whole nother story. But his name was Henry, and

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he said to me, you got to trust the process

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when I asked him a question, and boy, that's.

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Stuck with me. So I wanted to just throw that

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in there.

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But this woman was walking and walking and trying to

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get her balance, and then I taught her the power

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of the breath, that when you walk and you breathe

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at the same time, keep your corese center, your belly

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button being your center, keep it all center. Keep your

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arms in so that you're not flailing some pounds, well

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you know, fifteen pounds go in the opposite direction, fall

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into the floor.

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A ten pound arm.

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Who knows right whatever, But taught her that, and literally

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fifteen minutes later, she had our arms up in a

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nice parallel block, hands covering her head, picking up her

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prosthetic leg and front kick front kick, front kick with

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the breath.

466
00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:04.640
The transformation.

467
00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:08.920
Transformation on that video in the YouTube is so like

468
00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:12.319
jaw dropping because you see her wobbling. In fact, I

469
00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:14.839
use the words I think. I said, ooh, you need

470
00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:17.839
a spotter, you know, because that's very friendly with people.

471
00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:21.920
Right over held her hand another ampiutea woman was holding

472
00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.920
her hand, and we got through that together, and fifteen

473
00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:26.039
minutes later, there she was.

474
00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:26.680
She was off.

475
00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:29.319
And in fact, our lesson was supposed to close at

476
00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:32.799
three o'clock and we stayed until five twenty insecurity came out.

477
00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:35.880
Yeah, that's how much work we were doing. We did

478
00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:36.519
good work.

479
00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:41.119
Yeah, time flies, time flies. Even in that workshop, time

480
00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:44.759
was flying. And she handled the crowd really well because

481
00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:46.720
there were some people who just wanted to, you know,

482
00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:49.960
just grab some attention and all this, and I don't know,

483
00:26:50.119 --> 00:26:54.319
and it doesn't it never, you never, it never goes

484
00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:56.640
without saying. If you're in a crowd of people, you've

485
00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:59.519
got several types of audience folk.

486
00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:01.000
And they were there.

487
00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:03.279
They were there even though they were on their scooters

488
00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:05.759
and things like that, and they wanted the attention and all.

489
00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.880
But she handled the class really well. Okay, it was

490
00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.880
your turn, now it's your turn. But so can you

491
00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:16.279
talk about now you've got a wide variety now including

492
00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:20.799
me because I think I'm your first limb loss. Yes, ma'am,

493
00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:24.640
possibly limb loss. But you've got such a variety of

494
00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:29.440
students here locally and your presence on social media because

495
00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:33.359
you have a whole set of students like all around online.

496
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:36.799
Can you talk a little bit more about that? And again,

497
00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:39.519
you know, I don't think you know. I'll say that

498
00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:42.480
the last and then guys, you got coming with your questions.

499
00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:43.279
I know y'all have some.

500
00:27:43.640 --> 00:27:45.119
Don't be playing like y'all don't.

501
00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:46.519
So.

502
00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:50.759
The World Class Team World Class Taekwondo. This began in

503
00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:55.119
nineteen ninety seven, and it began as Eastern Taekwondo because

504
00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:58.960
it was in Connecticut's Eastern Then when I transferred here

505
00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:02.519
in twenty tens, changed it to World Class Taekwondo. I

506
00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:06.680
just be a little bit different, rebranded, and here we

507
00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:09.839
are and in the World Class Team. Their age is

508
00:28:10.200 --> 00:28:14.480
three to seventy one in the same class white belts

509
00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:16.359
through black belts in the same class.

510
00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:19.039
It's how I went through the ranks. And because I.

511
00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:23.039
Don't need to use tactics like a mcdojang where they

512
00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:26.039
put all white belts in one class, all yellow in class,

513
00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:28.920
all green in one class, or maybe just an intermediate

514
00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:32.000
class and an advanced class. We are all together because

515
00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:34.200
the black belts should never forget where they came from,

516
00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:36.559
and the white belts and the earlier belt should always

517
00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:37.799
know what they have to.

518
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:38.480
Look forward to.

519
00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:42.079
And everybody helps everybody, and then we become a teaching school,

520
00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:44.920
so our black belts are always learning and our red

521
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:47.480
belts as well are learning to teach. And then that

522
00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:50.839
expands to the nonprofits the outreach that we do. So

523
00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:53.440
I have multiple students who go out and help teach,

524
00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:56.480
and I meet about four hundred people a week, more

525
00:28:56.559 --> 00:28:59.920
than half present with disabilities. That's where we're at today.

526
00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.640
The online program, Miracles in Motion, is to reach people

527
00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:07.200
that perhaps have body shame, they don't want to go

528
00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:11.759
to a gym. Perhaps they've been dissed before, disrespected from

529
00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:15.240
another instructor, which does happen in our community, and it's

530
00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:19.799
all about discipline respect. Unfortunately, there will be instructors out

531
00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:22.599
there that take advantage and wear people down, and then

532
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:25.480
that black belt drops and the student may never pick

533
00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:26.039
it up again.

534
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:28.720
So I also wish to reach them because I want them,

535
00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:31.400
open your home, open your heart.

536
00:29:31.480 --> 00:29:33.960
Let's teach people. We can do this anywhere, we can

537
00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:36.599
do this in the whole world. And basically I can

538
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:40.440
present myself to be the Missus Rogers of Taekwondo online

539
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:43.440
teaching people. But we need those bodies out there, people

540
00:29:43.559 --> 00:29:46.160
to help help go out there and teach. And we

541
00:29:46.279 --> 00:29:49.720
do look for sponsors for that program as well as

542
00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:53.559
a sponsor on the Miracles in Motion program that reaches worldwide.

543
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:57.880
Three hundred dollars for your logo and one hundred dollars

544
00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:01.039
for a motivational quote. It is a click through And

545
00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:05.720
I like when people say official official seamstress of Master

546
00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:08.880
g or a world class team, you know, official driver

547
00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:11.519
of the world class team. We like to do so

548
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:16.240
that's an option to support the online mission. So those

549
00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:18.640
with the body shame those who can't get a ride.

550
00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:20.279
There are so many of my.

551
00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:24.440
Four hundred students weekly, I would say about a dozen

552
00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:27.720
of them who just really love the camaraderie. They just

553
00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:29.640
love the attention, They love the camaraderie.

554
00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:31.920
So can I FaceTime you? Can I call you?

555
00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:32.200
Now?

556
00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:33.079
Can I call you?

557
00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:35.720
And by the way, I am a part time two

558
00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:37.440
and a half day a week but a little bit

559
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:39.079
more right now, accountant, and.

560
00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:40.319
It's tax season, y'all.

561
00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:43.160
So two and a half days a week, I could

562
00:30:43.359 --> 00:30:45.680
profit in the other two accountant. So when they try

563
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:49.039
to reach out and talk to me, it's a difficult time.

564
00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:53.000
But I like to have them online as well, because

565
00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:55.279
some don't have rides. They don't have rides. We have

566
00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:58.720
a beautiful program down here. Access Links is a great

567
00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:01.440
program for people to get to the locations.

568
00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:03.519
That they need to get to, just police students.

569
00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:07.960
But sometimes it's just you know, people can't go as seniors,

570
00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:10.519
maybe they don't drive anymore, they can't get to the gym.

571
00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:14.279
Just reaching all different walks of life. People to just

572
00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:18.480
get online, move and the body moves, the brain grooves

573
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:21.759
something I like to say, it's cheesy, but it's real.

574
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.359
It's real. Got to keep moving when I.

575
00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:28.960
Meet I said, the respect that we get even before

576
00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:32.839
I got my top, just to walk with her into.

577
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:36.039
The why just everybody's friendly.

578
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:39.720
Everybody's like wow, they're as already checking you out, like oh,

579
00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:41.960
and then they look at her and I mean I

580
00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:43.759
saw the looks and they were like wow.

581
00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:46.960
And it's just it's just it's amazing and it's just.

582
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.720
A you know, I just love the Lord so much

583
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:51.680
because he knows what we need and he will make

584
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:54.000
sure that if this is something you need to be

585
00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:55.599
a part of, you're.

586
00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:56.599
Going to be a part of. And I'm going to

587
00:31:56.640 --> 00:31:58.759
prof this is what you want, I know your heart.

588
00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:02.240
And I take one on one private lessons for right now,

589
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:06.440
because first I know I'll be a slight distraction if

590
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:10.279
I walk into No No, No on a serious note,

591
00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:13.160
because everybody's like ooh, and I'm like okay, because the

592
00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:16.839
people that when I MC the program and they came

593
00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:19.839
over to the table, they had to come over to

594
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:23.440
the table and they were like, what happened to us?

595
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:25.720
Oh Lord, I can't even m see a program?

596
00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:27.559
You know?

597
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.359
But anyway, I dis liked that because I'm still feeling

598
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:34.000
my way. I'm still trying to get my Stamini and

599
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:36.480
everything up under me. But you don't know how much

600
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:42.039
this really And my foot surgeon and all my OT

601
00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:44.480
team and my PT team, they're.

602
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:46.640
Just like almost, great, Okay, what is it that you

603
00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:47.200
can't do?

604
00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:47.640
You know?

605
00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:50.680
I say, well, it found me, you know, but it's

606
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:53.200
on my vision board. Y'all need a vision board so

607
00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:56.160
that you can have things direct you. But guys, you

608
00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:58.200
have any questions for it nowhere members out there. I

609
00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.279
know y'all keep it silent because you really are probably

610
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:02.359
totally shocked at this. Oh you go.

611
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:04.559
Would you say anyone could do the sec There you go, missy,

612
00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:07.319
thank you. Would you say that anyone could do this activity?

613
00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:10.319
You can be very Oh mickey.

614
00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:14.279
I wanted to make sure anybody could do this. Say

615
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:16.160
who That was a question that came from the audience.

616
00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:17.279
Anybody do this?

617
00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:21.000
Anybody can do this. It is just my personal preference

618
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:24.440
to not accept those that are not. That's why you

619
00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:28.440
know what three you know? And I've had students up

620
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:33.160
to eighty three and the tallest student is seven feet

621
00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:35.279
and the smallest is like two and a half feet,

622
00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:41.680
So a why variety of students? The reason, shall I say,

623
00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:45.559
the reason anybody can do this is builty science. This

624
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:48.359
is all built on science. What I teach out there

625
00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:51.920
is the if theory of power. Theory of power. We

626
00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:55.359
start with our breath control. Anytime you blow out t's

627
00:33:55.480 --> 00:33:59.960
and s's, you're going to be stronger. That's where it starts.

628
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:06.160
Our breath control, our mass, our speed, our equilibrium, our

629
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:10.239
reaction force, and our concentration, and those are all the

630
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:13.079
things that Miss Gray is learning. So she learned she

631
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:16.400
doesn't have to just step with her muscles. She can

632
00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:20.360
use the floor to propel her forward. This is what

633
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:22.679
all of our students that we move the way that

634
00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:26.320
we move our body. It just a car has a propellant,

635
00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:28.960
an airplane has a propellant. We also have a propellant.

636
00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:32.119
It's the floor. Let the floor push you. So you

637
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:33.679
just spring off.

638
00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:37.960
People in sports, other sports like baseball or basketball, they're

639
00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:42.880
going to understand the spring. You know, people who do skateboarding, snowboarding,

640
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:45.840
I've done all these things. You understand the power of

641
00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:49.679
hang time and weight distribution when you go flying off

642
00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:51.880
a you know, a ramp and you got that little

643
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:53.880
bit of hang time. Like, all of these things are

644
00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:56.880
part of what we do. Concentration. The best way to

645
00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:01.039
explain it. A common garden hose you spray, that hose

646
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:04.239
comes out a certain power. You put a little cover

647
00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:06.440
on that with your thumb, you start to make that

648
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:09.480
whole a little smaller, and now the water comes out

649
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:13.599
a lot faster. That's the equivalent of punching with maybe

650
00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:15.880
a whole fist two knuckles.

651
00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:17.320
We want to go with just the two.

652
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:21.119
Knuckles, the whole slap hand, or just the palm. He'll

653
00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:24.679
concentrate and where you strike also matters. So there's so

654
00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:28.199
much to the science of this, and I debunk a

655
00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:30.519
lot of things that I see online, a lot of

656
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:34.039
self defense escapism, a lot of things that require physical

657
00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:37.039
strength and power. It doesn't need to be like that.

658
00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:39.119
You want to learn how to beat people up or

659
00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:41.519
flip people, you can come to our world class team training.

660
00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:46.719
But in our workshops, we teach escapism through science, just science.

661
00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:49.199
I always grab the biggest person in the room first,

662
00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:53.239
grab my arm. Here we go, and I just stand

663
00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:55.320
there and I just stand there and I just pull

664
00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:55.800
it right out.

665
00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:57.320
And they're like, what did you do?

666
00:35:57.880 --> 00:35:59.320
What did you do? Science?

667
00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:04.599
Science Our breath control, our concentration, reaction force, speed, something

668
00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:07.840
we work on, and yeah, pull it it all together.

669
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:09.360
So there's such a science behind this.

670
00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:11.800
Anybody can do it. And I do have three year

671
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:15.440
olds that understand. They understand the arc hand.

672
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:17.519
On the back of a neck, what that does to

673
00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:20.159
someone trying to pick them up, pick up their legs,

674
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:22.000
pick them up and put them over their shoulder.

675
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:23.079
That's all they got to do.

676
00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:27.440
Redirect you're redirecting. You're not picking somebody else up and

677
00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.239
throwing them. You're just redirecting somebody else's body weight.

678
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:31.599
It's amazing.

679
00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:36.239
One of our audience members asked if the members students

680
00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:39.119
can learn from each other, and have you seen that?

681
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:39.400
Now?

682
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:41.960
All right, now, y'all start asking questions. Now, don't let

683
00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:43.679
me you know, we'll run this thing.

684
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:44.559
We all learned.

685
00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:47.559
How much have I learned from you, miss Gray? How

686
00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:49.800
much I have learned from you? I mean that is

687
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:52.760
a number one. But like you said, my students are

688
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:56.599
so different, so different. For the first time, I had

689
00:36:56.639 --> 00:37:00.880
a cerebral palsy student break a heavy board with something

690
00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:04.280
called a bow wrist. Now a bow wrist, I show

691
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:06.639
you here, but as if you were to try to

692
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:10.000
take your index finger and touch the inner of your

693
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:13.320
elbow as hard as you can, you're going to create.

694
00:37:13.079 --> 00:37:13.719
That bow wrist.

695
00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:16.639
And he pulled it right on up and popped right

696
00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:20.679
through the board using breadth, hung right through it and

697
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:22.639
broke that board. It took us time to get to

698
00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:25.880
the heavy board. We only do board breaking the last

699
00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:29.360
week of every month, so it took three sessions. So

700
00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:32.400
that was three months, but it was only three classes

701
00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:33.079
that he did it.

702
00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:33.760
He did that.

703
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:36.320
We were so proud. I learned so much from everybody.

704
00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:37.960
One student said to me.

705
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:41.679
They say, master G. I know he likes to call

706
00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:45.119
me sahian Gi. He says, Master G. When I walk

707
00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:47.280
and breathe at the same time, I don't fall over.

708
00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:48.440
Anybody can learn.

709
00:37:48.519 --> 00:37:51.559
I didn't know that it was that powerful until a

710
00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:54.360
student brought it to my At another student doing just

711
00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:56.880
a simple drill, taking a ball like a beach ball,

712
00:37:57.400 --> 00:37:59.519
raising it up over the head and handing it to

713
00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:03.199
another student behind him, I said, I didn't know you

714
00:38:03.239 --> 00:38:05.760
could raise your arms like that. He said, neither did I.

715
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:11.239
I mean, boy, that is something in all the movement.

716
00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:15.360
There's so many small discoveries that just would never have known,

717
00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:16.119
and we.

718
00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:20.320
Don't realize how much we hold ourselves back, absolutely because

719
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:23.840
of fear, because I can't believe I'm doing this.

720
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:27.320
And I know when we first met, I asked, can

721
00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:28.840
we meet so you can assess me?

722
00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:32.280
Because she had I mean, it's different, you know, like

723
00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:34.119
she said, she didn't know all of my you know,

724
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:35.440
missing parts.

725
00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:37.679
And you know, and I met her and she's at

726
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:39.679
this park and she walks barefoot.

727
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:45.199
Literally, she shorted me, and I'm like, you know, you

728
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:47.840
ain't looked this way at the place, but you know,

729
00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:50.199
and I kept saying, I just need you to assess

730
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:53.480
and if you could deal with a person like myself,

731
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:56.119
And I did tell her there will be times I

732
00:38:56.239 --> 00:39:01.000
may push back, I may be getting that stubborn and like, okay,

733
00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:02.719
I just thought I can't do this today.

734
00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:06.519
I can't do this today. And she walks right along

735
00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:06.840
with me.

736
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:09.039
And you think we've known each other for years. If

737
00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:11.119
you came to see a session, you would think that

738
00:39:11.639 --> 00:39:14.000
we haven't. You know, it's just been a few months.

739
00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:19.880
But she's got that god given gift, that talent of

740
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:24.360
reading people. She starts where we at and she you

741
00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:26.559
tell her the history I've told about my history from

742
00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:29.159
years ago of that, but she's like, yeah, probably.

743
00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:31.559
And she saw me. I got ready to step and.

744
00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:35.800
In nisig Jeru, you circle, you do a c as

745
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:37.599
you stepped, she said, no, no, no, you don't need

746
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:38.159
to do the sea.

747
00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:40.239
She caught me right there and she said let's stop

748
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:42.679
right there. And I was like, whoa. And I didn't

749
00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.199
even remember it's been over thirty years since I've done this.

750
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:48.559
But your body reacts, you know, and then she said okay,

751
00:39:48.639 --> 00:39:51.000
and I went to do a movie. She goes, no,

752
00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:52.880
you don't have to do that because you're bouncing. You

753
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:53.679
don't need to bounce.

754
00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:56.400
I mean, she'll catch you and we stop it and

755
00:39:56.519 --> 00:39:58.159
we go over it, and we go over it. So,

756
00:39:58.440 --> 00:39:59.719
Pastor Miguel, you have a question.

757
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:02.960
Well, I was going to say that as a former

758
00:40:03.400 --> 00:40:07.159
fellow student back in when you got your first degree.

759
00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:12.239
It's when I started martial arts back in eighty five,

760
00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.480
but I stopped as an orange belt, and when I

761
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:20.760
moved from and I was studying in Texas, and when

762
00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:24.679
I moved from Texas to Miami, I tried kung fu

763
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:28.519
and that didn't last too long because I was a

764
00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:32.679
dad and that just interfered. The one thing that you

765
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:36.880
did say, and I have to agree with you that

766
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:39.000
one of the things that I learned while I was

767
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:43.119
studying the martial arts, it's that you're you're not doing

768
00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:47.559
all the work. You're using your your your attackers weight

769
00:40:48.079 --> 00:40:53.039
against them, and you're using your You become the folkrum

770
00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:58.239
and you're you're the one that's directing their energy against them,

771
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.760
and then that puts them on the ground. So that

772
00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:05.400
was one thing I did learn and that was that

773
00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:07.679
was ah. And then the other thing you touched on

774
00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:12.360
was I was a picture. I was crying out for

775
00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:16.559
the Texas Rangers as a picture. So yeah, yeah, yeah,

776
00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:18.639
all the all the all the secrets are coming out

777
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:23.360
and that's great. Yeah. So so yeah, and you're absolutely right.

778
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:27.440
People don't understand that when you're that your your breathing

779
00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:31.119
technique is what gives you that lbstra energy that you're

780
00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:35.440
looking for to follow through. And that's and that was

781
00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:38.199
the that was one of the things that they taught us,

782
00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:42.079
which is very important. People don't understand. And to the

783
00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:46.920
point that you were bringing up of how people were

784
00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:51.000
amazed of themselves, and I was kind of in I

785
00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:56.079
was kind of intrigued because I learned even the angels

786
00:41:56.440 --> 00:42:01.679
during creation applauded God he was create the world because

787
00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:05.480
they were amazed of what He's able to do. And

788
00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:09.519
that's what people don't understand. We have the capabilities of

789
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:13.599
doing everything that we have been designed to do. But

790
00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:15.639
it's just the voice that you want to listen to,

791
00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:19.760
because if you're listening to the wrong voice, you're going

792
00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:23.639
to give your brain wrong information. When you're able to

793
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:26.559
just do it and understand and you said the key

794
00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:31.679
word trust process because one of the things that people

795
00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:36.199
don't remember he learned how to walk. How many times

796
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:39.559
do you remember falling? You don't. All you know is

797
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:43.880
the final product and you're walking, so you don't remember

798
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.440
all of the mistakes you made while you were learning.

799
00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:50.239
The end product is that you are walking. And that's

800
00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:53.760
why your people don't understand. And my wife said it

801
00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:58.519
was the other day. Your mind such a powerful source

802
00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:02.440
and if you put the wrong information in it, putting

803
00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:05.079
the wrong source in it, you're going to have the

804
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:09.280
wrong energy. Whereas when you when you're putting the right

805
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:14.119
things into it, then the way you respond, the way

806
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:17.719
you conduct yourself in the world is going to reflect

807
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:21.920
what you put in. So there's my martial arts, my

808
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.239
martial arts one oh one that I can give to you.

809
00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:26.559
I can expound on there.

810
00:43:26.719 --> 00:43:29.719
Thank you so much, Pastor mcguel. Think it is one

811
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:34.199
thing about that science because you said baseball. My husband

812
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:37.800
has did baseball for over twenty years. And the best

813
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:41.840
correlation that I can give on that is in baseball,

814
00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:45.079
when we throw a ball, we're going to use backward motion.

815
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:49.159
Backward motion first you start backward and then you move forward.

816
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:53.760
So in our art, the authentic Taekwondo, we always have

817
00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:57.320
backward motion, with few exceptions, but we have backward motion.

818
00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:01.239
So when we punch, it doesn't look like other martial arts.

819
00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:05.800
It doesn't just come straight forward from your elbows forward motion.

820
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:09.360
Your range of motion comes from backward with a hip

821
00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:12.679
and a shoulder attached, and your whole body becomes one.

822
00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:15.559
And we bounced, and we don't bounce, We we draw,

823
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:19.079
we lower our weight, we raise our weight. We have

824
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.239
the backward motion already cocked and ready to go, and

825
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:27.159
we dropped down using gravity as our course and punch straightforward.

826
00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:30.559
So I love the reference because pitching is exactly that.

827
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:33.599
You did the same thing. You dropped your weight, you

828
00:44:33.719 --> 00:44:36.039
came up, and you dropped it again. He and I

829
00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:38.679
had my husband and I had talked about that because

830
00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:41.119
when you go and swing to hit that bat, you're

831
00:44:41.159 --> 00:44:43.519
doing the same thing, you know, with that body weight,

832
00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:44.480
the movement.

833
00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:45.880
Thank you for checks.

834
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:51.280
We only got two more minutes, We only got okay,

835
00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:52.559
the seventh degree.

836
00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:58.159
As a seventh degree, your schedule is absolutely booked. How

837
00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:02.280
I bring that up because many people say, well, I

838
00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:04.239
don't have time to read the Bible because I'm so

839
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:10.960
busy as a master, you still have to work. How

840
00:45:11.079 --> 00:45:17.159
do you incorporate that not affect the whole whole activities

841
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:17.920
that you're doing.

842
00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:20.039
As a master, especially here in Orlando.

843
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:22.920
I absolutely have to keep up on all twenty four

844
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:26.239
patterns that General Ja and team of two hundred Black

845
00:45:26.239 --> 00:45:29.119
Belts created. I do need to keep up on those

846
00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:34.599
and in between classes. Luckily, I'm fairly local Castlebury, Longwood, Aultamont,

847
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.840
Lake Mary, so I get around. Ryder Park is one

848
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:41.280
of my favorite places to go train and prayer time

849
00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:45.159
seven forty five every morning, and also my counseling with

850
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:45.760
Miss Gray.

851
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:49.639
Absolutely I love that too, But I have to because people.

852
00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:53.400
Come here to Orlando to visit for one thing, but

853
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:57.079
on occasion they'll come just to visit me because I'm

854
00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:59.280
a master and I know all twenty four patterns, so

855
00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:02.719
I can help them when they are grating. And when

856
00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:05.880
I was grading, there wasn't any female master. There wasn't

857
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:09.519
any female masters at all when I was grading doing

858
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:12.519
the pattern that I needed to do for my test.

859
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:16.320
So my fiftieth birthday, my first time ever, I put

860
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:19.199
myself out there on YouTube, put myself out there on YouTube,

861
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:20.199
and I did the pattern that.

862
00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:21.719
I was looking for. Thank you, ma'am.

863
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:24.639
I was so scared, but I did it, and I'm

864
00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:26.760
glad I did. And my YouTube, by the way, is

865
00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:28.559
Empower with Master G.

866
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:31.360
So people want to go back all the way. They'll

867
00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:33.760
see that first one out there. This is four years ago,

868
00:46:33.880 --> 00:46:35.159
so now y'all know who I am.

869
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.800
Yeah, well, we don't get age away. Just we're gonna

870
00:46:39.800 --> 00:46:42.480
scratch that everybody, I forget it change.

871
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:45.039
So you know, you just clicked like I could do.

872
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:45.639
Thank you.

873
00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:48.719
There's a great time once. We're having so much fun,

874
00:46:49.239 --> 00:46:51.199
and I may see if I can. Maybe I'm gonna

875
00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:53.079
go back and do some more finish up the end

876
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:55.039
of the month, so we don't have a speaker for

877
00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:56.840
that night, so I may be able to convince her

878
00:46:56.920 --> 00:46:59.920
to come and visit us again on that last Monday,

879
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:03.199
and we can you know, do some follow up and everything,

880
00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:05.920
because I'm sure other folks will have questions. I've gotten

881
00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:08.400
this to amputee coalition and all that, so I put

882
00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:10.440
it out there. If she's on, they need to hear you.

883
00:47:11.079 --> 00:47:13.639
And thank goodness they made the move to invite you.

884
00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:14.360
When they did.

885
00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:16.199
What a blessing, What a blessing.

886
00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:20.639
Then well, I appreciate it coming on, I'll see you

887
00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:24.159
in a few days, and audience, we'll see you next Monday,

888
00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:26.199
same time, same station.

889
00:47:26.480 --> 00:47:28.199
Y'all be blessed and stay safe.

890
00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:29.599
Night nice right

891
00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:00.800
The