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Articles by Michael Borders

About Michael Borders
I am kenpo practitioner in the Philadelphia Pa area. I enjoy martial arts and learning about different styles and principles associated with them.
Positivity-I can do it

Who Said the Fat Man Couldn’t Do Anything?

April 5, 2018 Michael Borders 8

I won’t bore you with the mundane of how I became interested in the martial arts I will just get to the story. The year was 2002, I was a 30-year-old, married man with a 6-year-old son. I decided that I wanted to do karate. After talking it over with [Read More]

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