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Environment

An environment can have a tremendous effect on the outcome of a person's life, whether it is positive or negative. The environment that affected my life in a positive manner was the dojo. Dojo comes from the Japanese language meaning "place of the way," do meaning way and Jo meaning place. The reason I started practicing karate (the real art itself is called karate-do "the way of the empty hand") training was because of sheer curiosity. My sensei's (instructor's) son was the same age as my brother, and they were on the same little league team. I asked him one day at a baseball game about karate and he said to me, "Come to the dojo and train and you will learn about it." To this I agreed and I went to the dojo for the first time. I was seven years of age at the time I entered the environment.
As one enters into the dojo it is customary to bow. A bow in Japan is like a handshake compared to the United States customs, it holds no religious significance. So it's like whoever......


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