Hinsdale Families Travel to Learn From the 'Karate Reverend'
Minister combines Karate and Christian teachings for students in Chicago's suburbs.
Karate Dave stands before his class and puts up his dukes. A fifth-degree black belt, he wears an imposing black gi and speaks in a booming baritone. A moment ago, he has demonstrated the power to smash through four three-inch concrete slabs. As he raises his fists, he names them, as a five-year-old boy once solemnly taught him. The one is “bible study,” the other, “prayer;” together, he says, they form a true “guard for God.” Karate Dave is Reverend Dave Pearson, the founder of the Christian Karate Council and his own Master’s Martial Arts Academy, a traveling program based as much in Christian teachings as ancient Japanese martial arts. Pearson teaches in 12 locations around the Chicago suburbs, his newest being Western Springs Baptist …
rose aquino
10:11 am on Saturday, January 22, 2011
what a great idea to combine religion with martial arts. it is a great exercise which everybody can practice at home after you learn it and student learn more to be respectful and humble as they go higher and higher in rank. Beside keeping healthy with this exercise but also a training of mind,body and spirit. more ›