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Toronto Motivational Speaker Features Martial Arts

Monday, August 9th, 2010
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Toronto motivational speaker Clint Cora features martial arts in both his motivational and diversity presentations.  He is the only Karate World Champion motivational speaker so he offers a very unique angle to personal growth and development.

He has already thrilled audiences all over Toronto, southern Ontario and part of the USA as well.   Clint uses martial arts techniques including moves with his karate bo staff weapon to demonstrate certain important principles of personal growth.

You can see this Toronto motivational speaker in action with some of his martial arts during a live talk to a large group of US college students at a conference in the video below.

As you can imagine, the martial arts segments of Clint Cora’s live talks are always some of the favourite parts of his presentations.  But the interesting thing is that instead of just using martial arts for show, Clint does work them into teachable points in his talks.

More about Clint’s martial arts background is available at his website.  For detailed descriptions of his available speaking topics and seminars, go to his Speaking Programs section at his website.  They are arranged in separate categories according to type of audience.

There are also many motivational resources for personal growth and development from Toronto motivational speaker Clint Cora all at his website.

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Got My Karate Bo Staff Form Back

Monday, July 19th, 2010
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#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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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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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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