Girls should do karate
hello everyone i hope you’re having a
great day
let’s try something if i say to you the
word karate
what comes to your mind maybe violence
people smashing people to the floor
maybe you need power and strength
or maybe karate chops and chias or maybe
just a martial art or a ninja sort of
thing
well i see let me guess you think it’s a
boy’s thing
well i can tell you that now it’s not
girls could do it too
i’m a living and breathing proof of that
by the name of alex 11 years old
anyone can do karate you think that
karate is a martial art which must means
find
it’s most certainly not karate teaches
you loads of different qualities like
control
discipline etiquette and leadership
i started karate when i was in reception
because my brother was doing karate
and it looked very cool and not many
girls at karate
when i started it was an after school
club and i couldn’t help but notice
i was the only girl there but that
didn’t stop me from doing it
one day the teacher called a sensei
called me tomato jokingly
i don’t exactly remember why maybe i
blushed a lot or maybe it was running
fast why something silly anyhow
but i didn’t like that at all so i
decided i would never ever do karate
again
never but that didn’t entirely go out to
plan
my parents said keep going continue
karate you can’t just stop at that
and that is when for the first time i
learned perseverance and also give out
big things or even small things
karate doesn’t only choose self-defense
it also teaches you things like courage
and perseverance which is essential in
life
after that it was my very first
graduation with a kata
oh that’s a kata i was around
seven years old and a red bull going for
yellow red is just off the white so i
hadn’t had that much experience yet
it was nearly finished and there was
just the war so many left so
sitting there little bored hey don’t
judge me i’ve been sitting there for
hours
attentively interested at first but then
lasted for two hours
still i was excited who who would win
the awards
they spoke into a migrants that everyone
could hear i sat there my heart beating
so they started announcing who had won
and i heard a name
it was mine but surely i had mishad i
thought
finally sensei came and gestured for me
to get up so i got
up and under the eyes of 250 or more
students
i took hold of the little trophy for
most improved students with trembling
hands
and felt rather proud of myself
and that is what kept me going in karate
and helped me believe in myself
after that i started competition and i
went there thinking well i’m going to
win
everything i want to be slightly
disappointed and not winning anything
but disappointed is putting it lightly
let’s i was devastated and started to
cry
but then one of my senses came up to me
and said that you don’t always win and
that was fine
he said that he didn’t always win and
then i gulped on my tears
and thought easy for him to say that i
realized what he meant
after that i joined karate outside of
school and i joined the junior school of
party in the fska
funakoshi shotokan karachi association
when i joined i realized things were
much more different
firstly there are many more competitions
and you expect to be responsible and
work even harder
but most importantly there are many more
girls in this club and over the years
many more joined
and there were loads of girl senses and
guess what the master of the fska is a
woman
she is called renshi debbie and has is a
sixth
is a black belt with six stands for now
she has the title of renshi because
she’s very high level karate
and she pushes girls to do karate she
even has her own
charity called action breaks science or
which the main purpose is to encourage
girls all around the world to do karate
she also helps poor girls in india and
loads of other countries
to do to self-defense
one day after training one of my
sensei’s sensei simona came up to us and
said
girls don’t be cute be fierce of course
i thought nothing of that first what
does that even mean
but then i realized it’s truth girls all
around the world are expected to be
cute and perfect but want nonsense girls
and women out there don’t be cute be
fierce
in magazines girls are mostly pictured
as three little things that can do
nothing but smell
in fact we can do anything in advance
we’re not depicted as the clever fierce
person people we are
in fairy tales such as rapunzel we are
shown as if to live to survive we need a
man to help us to save us
that we can’t find our own two feet
of course nowadays these things have
changed but you can’t help seeing some
of this in everyday life
girls and boys women and men we can do
anything we set our heart to
but to do that we have to be persevering
accepting of our mistakes and learning
from them
being fierce and always keep going of
course fears might make you think of
being mean or angry but it’s much much
more than that
it’s about fighting for you are and what
you believe in
so girls what are you waiting for your
time to belt up