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  • Black Belt Magazine

    THE BIGGER PICTURE

    Sep 13, 2022 2 minutes
    — Robert W. Young, Editor-in-Chief

    I’ve served as Black Belt’s editor-in-chief since 1997. I can’t count the number of times during those years when someone at some social event said, “You’ve worked for a karate magazine for 10” — or 15 or 20 — “years? How much needs to be said about kicking and punching, jeez?!”

    When the mood strikes, I attempt to explain that training in martial arts is about history, philosophy, competition, movies and so on — in essence, a way of life. It might sink in, and it might not. When it doesn’t, it can get me thinking about the true value of the martial arts. And that occasionally gets me thinking about an incident from my own martial past that sums it up nicely.

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