Shihan Carolyn and Our New Fall Schedule
Today I want to give a shout out to the great Shihan Carolyn.
That’s a pic of she and her son, Shihan Ben, when they both earned their probationary Blackbelts some years ago.
You probably know that Ben is away on a full ride scholarship at Baylor University now, rocking ROTC to become an Army Officer, and still comes back to teach summer camps when here on vacation.
I have bragged on him a lot lately, so you probably know all of that.
But did you know that his mom is a high level leader in the IT field, but also a Master Instructor at KMMA?
Or that she’s testing for her 5th Degree Blackbelt in March 2025?
And that she volunteers to come teach once a week and support our krav camps and other events just because she loves our mission of creating confident and competent blackbelt leaders and enjoys being a part of that.
She’s awesome, and I am proud and grateful to have her as a key leader in our tribe.
Incidentally, she’s also a brilliant scheduler. 🙂 I asked her to create a better schedule with a few specific process improvements that I wanted to make, and she did it!
I also asked her to accomplish all that with minimal disruption to the one we already had (to minimally affect you) and she accomplished that too!
I am personally a great idea guy, but a terrible scheduler! So I am proud of and grateful to her for this too!
1. Listen to this video where I explain what we are accomplishing with the new schedule and,
2. here it is. it goes into affect the day you go back to school!
3. I am proud of and grateful for you! Let’s make this our best year yet!
Prepare To Live; Empower To Lead!
Grand Master Stephen J. Del Castillo
Founding Master Instructor, Krav Maga Martial Arts
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About Grandmaster Stephen J. Del Castillo: Grandmaster Del Castillo is the founding Master Instructor of Krav Maga Martial Arts and has been empowering lives in Pasco and Hillsborough Counties since October of 2000. He is a 7th degree Blackbelt, MBA, author, mentor and success coach, a US Army Veteran and a proud father and grandfather. He is married to Ms. Barbara Del Castillo who helps him run the school. Grand Master Del Castillo began his training in the early 80’s and has high level blackbelts in Tae Kwon Do, Karate, Premier Martial Arts and Krav Maga Martial Arts as well as experience in kickboxing, Jeet Kune Do and Jiujitsu. He has high level instructor certifications from BBSI, IKMF, and KMG and has been featured in numerous Martial Arts publications and also Success magazine. He was a competitive sport karate and American Kickboxing instructor until he enlisted in the US Army where he served in the 82nd Airborne Division, where he won an Army Green to Gold scholarship and proceeded to ROTC and the University of Tampa. He was commissioned in 1992 and went on to serve in Germany with the 3rd Infantry Division and then in several other posts in the US until he left military service to pursue his dream of creating KMMA in 2000. Today I continue to train, learn, sow and grow under the mentorship of World Champion Grandmaster Jeff Smith, who regularly visits the academy to help sow into my teams and students as well.
The Krav MagaMartial Arts Headquarters is in Lutz, FL at 1900 Land O’ Lakes BLVD and now our new location in 8836 US 19, Port Richey! Krav Maga Martial Arts serves Lutz, Land O’ Lakes, Wesley Chapel, Port Richey and surrounding areas.
See stephendelcastillo.com for more information and to order my book, Developing Your Superpower, Meditations on Mastery, Volume 1.
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