09/10/2026
Believing in yourself is often half the battle.
Whether we’re teaching self-defense, breaking boards, or working through a difficult new skill, one lesson comes up again and again: you have more power than you think you do.
Here’s Mrs. V in 2006, unleashing that power and breaking a black board on her first try.
The strength was already there. The real challenge was trusting it.
Sometimes everything changes when you stop thinking, “I don’t know if I can,” and say what we say at Phoenix:
YES I CAN.