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New Location: Rockland

2 June 2024

Our Rockland Location opens it’s doors on Monday, June 24, 2024!

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Word of the Month: Excellence

1 June 2024

Excellence is a word that sounds like a destination. But it’s not. It’s a process, an evolution…

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Word of the Month: Responsibility

1 May 2024

One of the important aspects of our character development program at Douvris Martial Arts is that it not only teaches students how to become responsible…

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Word of the Month: Humility

1 April 2024

Some concepts are easy to explain with words. Humility isn’t really one of them. We can talk about it – and we do, as part of our character development program – but in order to help people understand humility, we have to make sure they can experience it.

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Word of the Month: Respect

1 March 2024

Respect is one of the words most often associated with karate, and for a good reason. We care about it a great deal.

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Karate

15 February 2024

For many, karate is life…but do you know about karate’s life? Here are 10 interesting facts that you may not have known about the art of karate. 

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Word of the Month: Service

1 February 2024

As Sensei Cody Diesbourg explains, if it weren’t for service and people paying it forward, we wouldn’t have martial arts today.

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Commitment in Martial Arts: How It Works and Tips

14 January 2024

here are many times in life where you must display a level of commitment. In a relationship, in in college or university, or when working towards achieving important goals.

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Word of the Month: Perseverance

1 January 2024

We think it so important that we made “Perseverance” one of our 12 recurring “Words of the month”.

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Helping Others: The Greatest Lesson of Karate

12 December 2023

December is here, and so is the biggest holiday of the year. For many young ones, this means one thing…presents. However…

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Word of the Month: Courtesy

1 December 2023

When parents sign their children up for martial arts classes very often they’re looking for a healthy activity that will also teach their kids respect…

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Compassion: How It Can Help You and Others

15 November 2023

Compassion is unique in that it can be both a tangible and intangible thing. That means that it can be something you can be demonstrated both physically, and mentally.

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