Archive for September, 2007

Over the years I have seen kids with black belts. I did not award any kids with a belt that high because it would have put them at a disadvantage. When I owned my school a kid could earn up to a brown belt legitimately because they know all of the basics, katas, techniques, and sparring (starting in upper white belt).The belt rankings generally are:

1. White belt (includes all of the beginning belts such as orange, purple, blue, and green – other schools have different white belt rankings)
2. Brown belt
3. Black belt Full Story »

As a practitioner of karate, I like to think self-defense is a practiced – method of protecting one’s self in most any situation. The trained fighter in almost any discipline can mount a defense to most attacks. The victim can become the victor.  Full Story »

Hello and welcome to My Self-defense Blog! My name is John Zimmer and I live in San Diego County, California, in the United States. My background is in Chinese Kenpo Karate where I studied with Richard Willett, initally with Tracy’s Karate. Tracy’s Karate in San Diego was later renamed to American Kenpo Karate.  I have attained the rank of a fifth-degree black belt in the American Kenpo Karate organization. I owned an American Kenpo Karate school in the in 1982 – 1983. Well now that is out of the way for now I would like to tell you what this weblog (My Self-defense Blog) is going to be about. Full Story »