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Got My Karate Bo Staff Form Back

Monday, July 19th, 2010

#martialarts #karate  – Okay, I got my karate bo staff form back after two training sessions following a long layoff from the winter and spring.  Actually, I now remember two slightly different versions of the form I did before the winter.  One includes a certain sequence while the other version skips it.

I wasn’t sure if this additional sequence was going to look any good so the only way is to video the form with and without it to see which would be better.  But I’m pretty happy that the form came back into my memory after two sessions.  I was a bit disappointed during the first training session because I had forgotten much of the form since I didn’t perform the full form at all during the winter and spring.

Since both possible versions of my karate bo staff form are so similar, I’m going to keep training it for a few weeks before the video just to get stronger with the entire form again.  I’m using my heaviery bo staffs to help build up the power again too rather than my competition bo staffs which are very light.

Perhaps later on in the fall, I will finally be able to video the present form to replace an old bo form I have on YouTube.   If you see a guy with a red top gi and black pants, that’s me.  That form has been replaced by my present one which is more streamlined and powerful.

I’ve had requests at my live motivational talks to perform more of my karate bo staff since I only do a few moves.  I’m not sure if I’m going to do this because I’m usually in my business suits.  I do show an introduction video which has parts of my bo staff form at the beginning of many of these live talks.

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Forgot My Karate Bo Staff Form!

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

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It’s kind of funny because now that I’m no longer competing in karate, I spent the entire winter focused on snow skiing.  The only karate bo staff moves I’ve been doing for the last six months were the parts I use during my live motivational talks.  I also include them in my diversity talks as well but apart from those moves, I haven’t been doing my entire weapons form at all.

Well, I decided to pick up my karate bo staff to do my complete form the other day and I actually had trouble remembering some of the parts from my form!  It’s been awhile.  Same thing with my Chinese staff form too.  Although I remember the individual techniques and they were still executed pretty good, I just didn’t remember the actual sequences they were in.

By the end of the workout, I got some type of workable weapons form back but I wasn’t sure if it was exactly the way I left it before the winter.  I’ll need a few more training sessions to get comfortable with the sequences again and then video what I’ve got to see how the form looks.  I don’t think I’ll have any problems bringing back at least a decent karate bo staff form I can perform anytime.

To see the brief moves that I actually did do all winter and spring, I do them not only in my live talks but also did them for an episode of my Clint Cora Motivational WebTV where I used my karate bo staff as a teaching tool for a principle of achieving life success.  Check it out as many probably didn’t realize that a martial arts weapon can be used to illustrate such concepts.

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Martial Arts Weapon Karate Bo Staff In TV Show

Monday, June 21st, 2010

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As a martial artist and professional motivational speaker, I like to combine some martial arts elements into my talks for added entertainment.  I use martial arts to illustrate important points of self improvement during my presentations.  One such example is that I bring out my martial arts weapon karate bo staff at certain points of my talks.

There is a concept I call comfort zone expansion in achieving success in self improvement.  A comfort zone is when you are just to set in your own ways and stay within areas that do not allow you to venture out to learn new skills.  Although as the term implies, you are very comfortable within your comfort zone, you don’t progress to achieve your goals.

You can usually achieve goals in self improvement only if you learn and develop new skills which will require getting a bit uncomfortable to expand your comfort zone.  I use my karate bo staff to show audiences what happened in terms of comfort zone in my own case when I was first training with this martial arts weapon.

I then relate the karate bo staff to everything else in life that one wants to do better in.  The same principle applies to every different area of life.  I like to say that expanding one’s comfort zone is contagious as one can apply the same principle from one area of life to another one.

Since my parts of my live talks with the karate bo staff (and other martial arts elements as well) are always so well received, I’ve decided to put this on video with an entire episode of Clint Cora Motivational WebTV to show my website visitors around the world on what the bo staff is all about.

This is actually episode number 10 from my Motivational WebTV series already.  I have had a lot of fun producing these episodes so far and I hope this new one will be entertaining and educational for your self improvement.  See it below.

Of course as always, your comments about this unique episode featuring my martial arts weapon, the karate bo staff, are welcome at the comments section of this blog as well as on Facebook.  If you missed any of the previous nine episodes, just go to Clint Cora Motivational WebTV archive.

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Motivational Speaker Will Feature Karate Bo Staff Weapon

Friday, June 18th, 2010

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I was speaking at a Rotary club in Burlington, Ontario this morning as their guest keynote speaker and the member who introduced me was a 2nd degree black belt in karate.  So of course we ended up having a good conversation about martial arts during the breakfast before I went on for my talk.

During my talk as their motivational speaker, as with pretty well all of my motivational talks as well as diversity talks now, I bring out a karate bo staff weapon in order to help illustrate a key point in achieving success in everyday life.  This has been one of the highlights of my talks according to audience members.

So far, people online can see a short glimpse of my karate bo staff in action during the opening sequences of my Clint Cora Motivational WebTV show every other week.  This is my online video program on motivation, achieving success and diversity.  However, the sequence with my bo staff weapon is quite short so audiences get really get a good feel for it.

So I have decided to shoot an entire episode of Clint Cora Motivational WebTV using the karate bo staff weapon.  This will be the next coming episode which will be announced in a few days.  It will show those who haven’t been to one of my motivational speaker live talks yet a better look at my karate weapon and how I use it to teach an important success principle.  So stay tuned right here on this blog or better yet, sign up for my Motivation Diversity Success Newsletter at the sidebar of this blog so you will get alerts to all new episodes as they come out.

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Shooting New Motivational Video With Karate Weapon Bo Staff

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

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It was great to finally do my entire karate weapon bo staff form this week in it’s entirety outside after a long winter.  Although I’ve been using the bo staff at my motivational talks throughout the last couple of months, I haven’t really performed my entire form during the winter.

Now, I’m going to get some of the moves back so I can feature the bo staff for a new episode of my Clint Cora Motivational WebTV show.  I want to bring the part I do during my talks to illustrate a concept of comfort zone expansion which is important for achieving success in martial arts and anything else in life.

I’m going to include some addition moves with the karate weapon that I don’t normally do during my talks for this video shoot.  I hope to rehearse both the bo staff moves as well as my verbal lines well enough to do the actual shoot this weekend outside in the woods near my house where the lighting should be nice.

If you haven’t seen any of the episodes of Clint Cora Motivational WebTV yet, go to the webpage just linked and you will see the archive of all past shows which will help you achieve success in your life.

The episode to be shot this weekend featuring the karate weapon bo staff will be very interesting especially to my non-martial arts viewers who have never really been exposed to it before.  It will also be quite unique to martial artists who are already familiar with the bo staff because it shows it being used in the context of a motivational video.

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Canadian Motivational Speaker Karate Champion At Professional Group

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

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CARP is a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization in Canada committed to a new vision for aging in this country. They are involved in promoting social change that will bring financial security, equitable access to health care and freedom from discrimination. So when I was invited to come speak at the local Mississauga chapter of CARP as their first ever Canadian motivational speaker and karate champion, I was quite honoured to do so.

Their mandate is to promote and protect the interests, rights and quality of life for Canadians as people age in this country. I went in to do a slightly shorter version of my full motivational keynote to a receptive audience. It was a very nice facility since they used a theatre room in the Origin Evergreen facility in Mississauga.

I wasn’t aware that they had invited local press to come in and cover the event. Although staff photographers from SNAP North Mississauga didn’t arrive until midway through my talk, they took photos of the event after the presentation. You can see some of the photos as well as the writeup at the SNAP North Mississauga article.

I spoke to some of the CARP board members and they seem to be a group with lots of ideas for events in the community. They are also willing to do some events that other community groups have not done. So I told them that if they ever do an event where they could use a Canadian motivational speaker, I would be available.

Since I use my karate bo staff weapon during my talks and also invite some members of the audience to try them out, we were able to get a photo afterwards with CARP members with bo staffs as shown below. All for fun as well as some motivational learning as well.

If you represent a group or company in the GTA and could use Canadian motivational speakers for a future event or meeting, check out my speaking programs.

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Motivational Video Will Feature Karate Weapon Bo Staff

Friday, May 21st, 2010

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I was scouting possible locations yesterday for my Motivational WebTV show which is an online motivational video series that I do every two weeks or so for my personal development website.  Since I have a segment in my live motivational talk which involves a karate weapon bo staff, I want to include it as part of a future episode of my online show.

Possible locations suitable are in a soccer field, by the beach at the lakefront and in the woods where I usually take my two lhasa apso dogs for walks.  I usually like to have some privacy when I shoot my motivational video shows and out of these three locations, the beach would actually give me the least privacy since there are always people walking around even during weekdays.

Capturing good sound is important and a location such as the lakefront where there could be waves and wind may be factors.  The soccer field is usually okay if I pick the right times of the day when nobody will be around.  But it looks like the deep in the woods might be actually the best location for this shoot.

I have shot previous episodes in all three locations before and the woods spot was actually the best in terms of privacy, sound and lighting.  The only other factor about the woods is that I need a spot where I have enough room to work my karate weapon bo staff without hitting any bushes or trees.  Of course, the other locations would not have this type of complication.

I’ll try to shoot this episode soon and in the near future, my viewers will be able to see my bo staff in action along with an associated motivational message to go along with it.

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Seniors Get Personal Growth With Martial Arts

Monday, May 10th, 2010

#martialarts #karate  —-  As part of my own speaker identity, all of my talks whether in motivational personal growth or in diversity, have some martial arts component to them.  The motivational talk I did for a Probus club last week was no different.  Probus is a network of community clubs where the vast majority of members are retired seniors.

One of the parts of my motivational talk utilizes the martial arts karate weapon bo staff.  At one point of the talk, I recruit one or two volunteers, usually women, to join me up onstage to do some moves with the bo staff.  I make sure that they have never, ever used a bo staff before.

In front of their colleagues and fellow Probus members, I had these two ladies up front with me and taught them some basic bo staff moves.  Everybody was thoroughly entertained as both the audience and these two ladies had fun.

More important is the lesson behind this activity during my motivational talk.  Since these two senior ladies have never used bo staffs in their lives before and I got them doing some basic moves in a few minutes, in front of their peers, a wonderful thing happened before their very eyes.

These two volunteers demonstrated that personal growth was indeed possible for any age group including the seniors.  This was an ‘ah-ha’ moment for the Probus audience for sure.

For a free download, check out my World Champion Personal Growth Guide.

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Martial Arts Content A Hit With College Audiences

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

#martialarts #karate #kungfu #taekwondo —  I always include some martial arts content in my speaking keynote programs and did my diversity talk at a New York state college yesterday.  Getting the students to stand and do martial arts punches with loud yelling was fun for all.  I even got two students to try out bo staff with me on stage.

My corporate motivational programs also feature martial arts as well.  So if your company or organization would like to explore the possibility of having me come to be a guest speaker at one of your meetings and entertain your audience with some martial arts as well as learn some valuable personal development tips, check out my speaking programs.

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College Diversity Showcase At Conference Has Martial Arts

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Karate world champion Clint Cora will be doing a college showcase of his diversity presentation at a campus activities conference in Atlanta this week and as usual, he will feature some martial arts elements in his talk.  He will be using a karate bo staff as well as get the audience to do some group punching complete with karate yells for fun.  This type of showcase has worked well for Clint in the past and hopefully it will open up a new market for him in the US.

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