White Crane School of Martial Arts

11/29/2025

11/08/2025

Please share this post with anyone who is looking for better balance and coordination. You’re giving them the gift money can never buy:

Better quality of life

11/06/2025

11/03/2025

Monday classes resume this week.

Come start your week of right with tai chi from 9a-10a.

First class is free, $5 per class after that.

06/19/2025

Older U.S. adults are increasingly dying from unintentional falls, according to a new federal report published Wednesday, with white people accounting for the vast majority of the deaths.

06/02/2025

Mondays 9am - 10am
Wednesdays 9am - 10am
Thursdays 6pm - 7pm and 7pm-8pm

03/23/2025

There is no such thing as a shortcut to being an expert at self-defense.

Like any other skill, there are four levels that change with knowledge and practice.
Unconscious incompetence: you don’t know what you don’t know
Conscious incompetence: you are aware that you don’t know something(you can be taught, but you will look bad doing it)
Conscious competence: you can do it only when you are totally focused on it(you can do something it looks less and less bad the more you practice it)
Unconscious competence: you do it without thinking, it’s essentially a reflex

The only way to get there is to first learn from someone who knows more, and then regular practice of what you learned.

But absolutely no one can teach you what you need to know in 2 hours

If I offered you a 1 hour painting course, and said you’d learn everything you needed to know, you’d laugh in my face. Even if I *could* cover every single technique in such a short amount of time, you would instinctively understand that you wouldn’t be competent in any of what you’d learned for quite some time…unless you practiced.

If I told you that for a mere three hours on the weekend, you would be qualified as a welder, or glass blower, or rock climber, or fitness instructor, you’d know I was lying.

And yet, people fall for this all the time when it comes to self-defense classes.

You can save your life with 2 hours of light instruction, allegedly. For a mere $50 or so, you’ll suddenly have the wherewithal to successfully fight off an attacker much stronger than you who is bent on doing you bodily harm. It’s ridiculous when you think about it.

Consumers are often targeted with easy hacks and quick solutions, when, in reality, the answer is simple; consistent training and hard work. It takes weeks, or even months, to build muscle memory, depending on your levels of athleticism and coordination. This also does not factor in the added stress of someone trying to kill you…or worse.

As my own instructor likes to remind me, we do not rise to the occasion, we fall to the level of our training. And if your level of training consists of an hour or two of techniques you barely remember, the outlook is not good.

Don’t hang your life on the hope that adrenaline will kick in and you’ll magically become a super karate ninja. Put in the months of training. There’s no cheap substitute.