I want to thank you for all of your hard work, dedication to the art, enlightening & soulful approach, peaceful demeanor, and tuff love instruction that you openly give to us all. My entire family is honored to be students of such a great teacher of the Shaolin-Do martial arts.

With responsibilities come sacrifices. At the time when I first started my journey of self-improvement, my responsibilities were limited. However, life has a unique twist of throwing in stumbling blocks every now and then. My stumbling block was my due to my own choice. I’ve always wanted to pursue more education and fortunately had the opportunity to do so. Just like everything else I put my mind too; I have the strong desire to give my all. With that being the case, here lies the dilemma, give 100 percent to training or 100 percent to attaining my educational goals. Needless to say, this was an unrealistic goal to accomplish. I figured if I couldn’t give 100 percent to training, which meant attending class as I normally do, then I needed to step away for a while and concentrate on school.

Well just over a year and a half now with Shaolin Do and my life has dramatically improved for the better. I literally feel like a new person. I’ve lost 50 pounds since starting in January of 2006 and that is with almost no change to my daily diet. Kung Fu has also lowered my blood pressure to a normal level and my doctor has taken me off of my high blood pressure medication. My stress levels have gone down, my self-confidence is up and I haven’t slept this good in a long time. Signing up for Shaolin-Do was the best thing I’ve ever done for myself. A huge thank you to Master Joe and all the instructors.