Thursday, May 25, 2006

Kicking with kindness

Along with all the physical requirements, there's a strong emphasis on personal responsibility and growth at Aurora's Family Martial Arts Center. Students must do 400 acts of kindness, spend a day disabled and right three wrongs in their life.

Master Instructor Chris Natzke came up with the idea after he took part in a program called The Ultimate Black Belt Test. He says the test changed his life, and he wanted to offer something similar to his students.

Natzke says, "Self defense used to always be kicking and punching and fighting. Now it's self defense against poor attitudes, against unhealthy diets and things of that nature."

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