| A Curriculum for those who use Wheelchairs and Walkers |
| In many martial arts there is a fair amount of emphasis on the student punching and kicking correctly as well as |
| minimizing the injuries when the student is kicked or punched. There is certainly a lot to be said for physical security. |
| One can think of a martial school as a bank which loans courage, but a bank with extended responsibilities. |
| "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on |
| the moon and returning him safely to the earth." President John Kennedy - section IX of a speech titled |
| 'Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs' delivered to a joint session May 25, 1961. And then |
| "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are |
| hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills ..." from a speech by |
| President John Kennedy at Rice University in Houston Texas on September 12 1962. |
| One way, perhaps the only way, one can verify that a martial art is worth studying and teaching is how well it serves |
| not just people in the central areas of the mythical bell curve but also people in the remote tails of the population. |