Sensei Sheets--
Thank you for putting on this forum! I trained with Sensei Canna before relocating to Florida several years ago, the forums are a great way to keep learning.
Perhaps you could provide me with some good resources concerning training for people who are in wheelchairs or dealing with other physical challenges.
My wife, Sue, is an Occupational Therapist. She is contributing training ideas along with several other therapists and personal trainers. We want to make good solid training available to the people who want it regardless of any challenges they are facing.
Any insights you can offer will be greatly appreciated.
Respectfully,
Frank DiMeo
Sarasota, FL
Training resources for those in wheelchair, etc.?
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Hi Frank,
Thanks for posting this wonderful topic. First off, please call me Dana. I am first and mostly a student. Second, the timing of your post is really amazing for me. I just returned from the Pacific-Rim conference on disability where I was screening two films my company produced around disability issues. One was Graduating Peter (the sequel to Educating Peter)
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/graduating_peter/
The second is "My Future My Plan"
http://www.myfuturemyplan.com
Which is a video-based curriculum to encourage youth with disabilities and their families to be actively engaged in planning for the youth's life after high school.
OK - end of commercial.
Your question is a very important one. People with disabilities represent one of the fastest growing minorities in the U.S. More and more karate instructors are going to be asked to teach students with a wide variety of needs like never before. I would hope that the professional martial arts community would begin to work with the disability community to develop sensitivity curriculum and certification trainings for working with both adults and youth with disabilities.
OK - end of soapbox.
Sadly, I don't know of any resources off-hand. But I do have a ton of websites and portals marked in my browser at work and will take a peek next week to see what I can come up with.
I remember that on Bill Glasheen's forum in the last couple years as young man who trained tae kwon do shared how he had adapted the curriculum for himself as someone who used a wheelchair and did not have the use of his lower body. I belive he had turned kicks into wheelchair turns & shuto techniques and other similar modifications.
so I'll dig a bit and get back to you. Hopefully some others will read this in the meantime and offer up what they know!
Dana
Thanks for posting this wonderful topic. First off, please call me Dana. I am first and mostly a student. Second, the timing of your post is really amazing for me. I just returned from the Pacific-Rim conference on disability where I was screening two films my company produced around disability issues. One was Graduating Peter (the sequel to Educating Peter)
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/graduating_peter/
The second is "My Future My Plan"
http://www.myfuturemyplan.com
Which is a video-based curriculum to encourage youth with disabilities and their families to be actively engaged in planning for the youth's life after high school.
OK - end of commercial.
Your question is a very important one. People with disabilities represent one of the fastest growing minorities in the U.S. More and more karate instructors are going to be asked to teach students with a wide variety of needs like never before. I would hope that the professional martial arts community would begin to work with the disability community to develop sensitivity curriculum and certification trainings for working with both adults and youth with disabilities.
OK - end of soapbox.
Sadly, I don't know of any resources off-hand. But I do have a ton of websites and portals marked in my browser at work and will take a peek next week to see what I can come up with.
I remember that on Bill Glasheen's forum in the last couple years as young man who trained tae kwon do shared how he had adapted the curriculum for himself as someone who used a wheelchair and did not have the use of his lower body. I belive he had turned kicks into wheelchair turns & shuto techniques and other similar modifications.
so I'll dig a bit and get back to you. Hopefully some others will read this in the meantime and offer up what they know!
Dana
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Frank DiMeo
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Differently Enabled
Thanks Dana! I really appreciate your timely response!
I am doing a presentation next month for a Multiple Sclerosis support group.
I am really looking forward to getting to know these folks!
I will send you an update every so often if you'd like.
Thanks again!
Respectfully,
Frank DiMeo
Sarasota, FL
I am doing a presentation next month for a Multiple Sclerosis support group.
I am really looking forward to getting to know these folks!
I will send you an update every so often if you'd like.
Thanks again!
Respectfully,
Frank DiMeo
Sarasota, FL
Training resources......in wheelchairs
I was surfing the net, having typed in 'wheelchair blackbelts' and found these two letters on one of the site, actually in response to George's websites, Oct. 1998 Mailbag. One of the people had a project they were proposing use of. Addresses were included for contact. Very inspiring letters! Check it out.
Dear GEM,
I began my study of Uechi Ryu for 36 years. When I began this journey I never realized it would consume so much of me. Over the years I have had a very understanding wife. Knowing she was a karate wife, if I was needeed at home it was easy to get in toudh with me. She new I would not be at some bar , I would be teaching Uechi Ryu. I started this never ending quest in 1962 under the direction of Ronald Nietien at Minot Air Force Base,
Minot North Dakota. I was a student of his untile Feb. 1966. I tested for black belt at that time, and pormoted by him. In Oct. 1965. When I was discharged form the Air Force I went to work in the Bahama Islands, I thaught Uechi Ryu there for two years, Promoted serveral good 1st Degree Brown Belts.
I hope over the years they were able to continue there training with some other instructor. I moved around for a few years after leaving the Bahamas teaching where I went. In 1971 I enlisted in the U.S. Army . I was in and out of Okinawa on several short TDYs. In December 1972 I was Injured in VietNam and spent the next three and half years in and out hospitals and nurmous operations on my legs just to get me to walk . But that was the time that I was able to learn the most about Uechi Ryu. I was not able to perform the movements physically, I had to perform everything mentally. Thats when I was able to start understanding how powerfull the katas really are. It was almost three years before I could start working out again. But when I started it was like I never took a break. Those learning experiences have become my corrnerstone to teaching the art. I have developed a deeper under standing of the working of our system because I am not able to perform the kicks the way I did before the injuries. I teach a basic system of self defense straight from the katas. Instead of teaching power punching and power kicking I stress striking blocks and the one knuckle strike. Most of the students I teach are able to perform push ups on the one nuckle and within a year and are able to break a one inch board in mid air (not being held).
Well thats enough for now. I recieved a medical retirement in 1976 and moved to Augusta, Ga. After I moved here I have been able to continue my training with Richard Perkins in N. Carolina. I would like very much to be place on your list. Maybe I can find other Uechi practioners closer than Atlanta, Ga.
Thank you,
William H. Harris
Anthony Martin von Sager
A partial quadriplegic as a result of cerebral palsy, my parents ad I were told I would never walk, much less engage in any physical activity. I now hold a 3rd degree Black Belt in Karate-Ju-jiutsu and Kickboxing. Today I am the highest ranking physically challenged Black Belt in the World. In 1990-1993, I was several times the North-South German full contact
Kickboxing Champion. I was the first handicapped person ever to compete in a professional karate match not specifically intended for the physically challenged. I hold the world record for sit-ups (5,453 in 1 hour and 20 minute's non-stop). In 1997 I became four times the Texas state Champion as well five times U.S. National Champion in three different Associations.
In November of 1997 I finished the season with two silver medals in the World Karate Championships of the NBL-SKI.
In addition to my 15 plus years of experience as a personal trainer, martial arts instructor, and advocate for young people (in a variety of settings) I am an active stunt and fight coordinator for feature films, having worked with such professionals as Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwarzeneeger.
Sounds extraordinary, even to me. But it's not. Out of the ordinary, for sure, but extraordinary, not at all. The wisdom I applied, the strength I discovered, even the intensity of focus, which I have honed day in, and day out from childhood, lie within every human being.
My goal is to help others (especially those with tremendous obstacles before them) tap into and channel their own gifts for unlimited achievement.
Not merely an inspirational work, the project I'm proposing is a practical guide to goal attainment.
It works. I know.
------------------------------------------------------------
P.S: Fur Seminars and Workshops call:
Free : 1800-544-3615
Mail : P.O.Box 1773 Venice CA 90294/1773 USA
mail Order for Videos "Get fit for Life" and Seminars and Autor of his
Lifestory :" Born to Fight".
god bless Sensei Anton[/i]
Good stuff.
Vicki
Dear GEM,
I began my study of Uechi Ryu for 36 years. When I began this journey I never realized it would consume so much of me. Over the years I have had a very understanding wife. Knowing she was a karate wife, if I was needeed at home it was easy to get in toudh with me. She new I would not be at some bar , I would be teaching Uechi Ryu. I started this never ending quest in 1962 under the direction of Ronald Nietien at Minot Air Force Base,
Minot North Dakota. I was a student of his untile Feb. 1966. I tested for black belt at that time, and pormoted by him. In Oct. 1965. When I was discharged form the Air Force I went to work in the Bahama Islands, I thaught Uechi Ryu there for two years, Promoted serveral good 1st Degree Brown Belts.
I hope over the years they were able to continue there training with some other instructor. I moved around for a few years after leaving the Bahamas teaching where I went. In 1971 I enlisted in the U.S. Army . I was in and out of Okinawa on several short TDYs. In December 1972 I was Injured in VietNam and spent the next three and half years in and out hospitals and nurmous operations on my legs just to get me to walk . But that was the time that I was able to learn the most about Uechi Ryu. I was not able to perform the movements physically, I had to perform everything mentally. Thats when I was able to start understanding how powerfull the katas really are. It was almost three years before I could start working out again. But when I started it was like I never took a break. Those learning experiences have become my corrnerstone to teaching the art. I have developed a deeper under standing of the working of our system because I am not able to perform the kicks the way I did before the injuries. I teach a basic system of self defense straight from the katas. Instead of teaching power punching and power kicking I stress striking blocks and the one knuckle strike. Most of the students I teach are able to perform push ups on the one nuckle and within a year and are able to break a one inch board in mid air (not being held).
Well thats enough for now. I recieved a medical retirement in 1976 and moved to Augusta, Ga. After I moved here I have been able to continue my training with Richard Perkins in N. Carolina. I would like very much to be place on your list. Maybe I can find other Uechi practioners closer than Atlanta, Ga.
Thank you,
William H. Harris
Anthony Martin von Sager
A partial quadriplegic as a result of cerebral palsy, my parents ad I were told I would never walk, much less engage in any physical activity. I now hold a 3rd degree Black Belt in Karate-Ju-jiutsu and Kickboxing. Today I am the highest ranking physically challenged Black Belt in the World. In 1990-1993, I was several times the North-South German full contact
Kickboxing Champion. I was the first handicapped person ever to compete in a professional karate match not specifically intended for the physically challenged. I hold the world record for sit-ups (5,453 in 1 hour and 20 minute's non-stop). In 1997 I became four times the Texas state Champion as well five times U.S. National Champion in three different Associations.
In November of 1997 I finished the season with two silver medals in the World Karate Championships of the NBL-SKI.
In addition to my 15 plus years of experience as a personal trainer, martial arts instructor, and advocate for young people (in a variety of settings) I am an active stunt and fight coordinator for feature films, having worked with such professionals as Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwarzeneeger.
Sounds extraordinary, even to me. But it's not. Out of the ordinary, for sure, but extraordinary, not at all. The wisdom I applied, the strength I discovered, even the intensity of focus, which I have honed day in, and day out from childhood, lie within every human being.
My goal is to help others (especially those with tremendous obstacles before them) tap into and channel their own gifts for unlimited achievement.
Not merely an inspirational work, the project I'm proposing is a practical guide to goal attainment.
It works. I know.
------------------------------------------------------------
P.S: Fur Seminars and Workshops call:
Free : 1800-544-3615
Mail : P.O.Box 1773 Venice CA 90294/1773 USA
mail Order for Videos "Get fit for Life" and Seminars and Autor of his
Lifestory :" Born to Fight".
god bless Sensei Anton[/i]
Good stuff.
Vicki
