Mount Laurel Youth Helps Raise $14,000 for Juvenile Diabetes!

Martial Arts at Dinoto Karate Center is more than just kicks and punches. It's about making a difference in your community...the world.
10 year old black belt, Alexandra, does her part to help raise money for Juvenile Diabetes Research (JDRF). Great Job Alexandra!

Project Based Leadership Training at Dinoto Karate in Mount Laurel NJ

Project Based Leadership Training (PBLT) is a launching point for YOUR project, for your vision, for you to be a bright shining light in your martial arts school, community and world!
Your project will be your unique 'thing' that will set you (and Dinoto Karate Center) apart from your average martial artist (and everyone else for that matter). It will help you teach the world that what you do as a martial artist at your martial arts school is VERY important and significant. It will set you and your martial arts school apart from the average martial arts school down the street... very important!



PBLT is that it's the perfect launching point for any project that you decide to do.

To learn more about PBLT... visit http://www.leadershipstudents.com/index.asp and familiarize yourself with this site, there's a ton of information that Tom Callos (my ubbt coach) has published on the subject as well as important information presented by my good friend and the sites developer, Gary Engels.

Community activism in the form of practical and helpful projects! It's a no brainer as it's impossible to show the true meaning of martial arts with just kicks, punches and blocks!
http://www.leadershipstudents.com/index.asp

Below is a tutorial on how to add/start a new project:


Here other direct links:
Start a New Project
Edit Existing Project
Complete Your Project

PDF Documents:
Project Planning Guide
Project Completion Form

Dinoto Karate Center's Project Based Leadership inspires a Community. Yes?

I've been inspired! (since Greensboro, Alabama)

The work that Pam Dorr, the volunteers, and the H.E.R.O. project are doing down in Greensboro, Alabama is remarkable and inspiring. Their sacrifice and commitment to service is changing that community forever.

I designed the graphic above as a reminder (to myself and anyone else that will listen) that service and inspiration lead to conversations / partnerships. When 2 (or more) people get together and share what inspire them... a new "relationship" is born/created that, after follow through and actions, can change someone's life forever.

That's what Project Based Leadership Training (PBLT) is about. It's an idea... It's a conversation... it's action... it's inspiration... it's people... it's community ...it's relationships.

Find out about our Project Based Leadership Training by visiting us HERE.

Community Activism -- and What May Be The Most Important Work a Martial Artist Will Ever Do

Building a home for someone in need. Master Liciaga meeting with Ms. Goergia. Greensboro, Alabama.

Being a master martial artist is MORE than just knowing how to kick, punch and block! It's about being an active part of a community and making a difference!

I am proud to be a part of a martial arts school that supports community activism. Thank you to Master Dinoto, Mrs. Dinoto and all DKC students for giving me the opportunity to travel to one of the poorest communities in America and put my master martial arts skills and leadership to good...not EXCELLENT use! We not only raised over $14,000 to build a home for Ms. Georgia, but we were able to help build a 4500 square foot school!

This is what being a martial artist is about to me...

Thank you.

To see more pictures from the Alabama building project visit http://gallery.me.com/rjlphoto

Self-Defense is Found in the Simple Things

We teach self-defense --and self-defense is found in the simplest of things. Kindness, for example; kindness is a beautiful form of self-defense. Good food --and the appreciation of it; there’s great kind of self-defense!

Oh, and how about love of community? Participation in --and love for --one’s community is a kind of self-defense that’s impossible to put a value on.

And my favorite kind of self-defense is found in a simple rule, The Golden Rule:

Treat others as you would want them to treat you.

Simply perfect.

I like Tom Callos’ (www.tomcallos.com) description of self-defense too:

“Self-defense isn’t only about personal protection, it’s about taking care of the people around you and the place you live as well.”

And of course, self-defense training is all you already imagined it to be, but with this particular attitude about it, self-defense becomes about living a good life. What a great idea.

For information about our school and our self-defense lessons for today’s world, contact us HERE.

"Wisdom of the Elders" - a community project

Mount Laurel resident and ultimate black belt member, Peter Liciaga will interview 100 senior citizens/elders for his 5th degree black belt test. Master Liciaga will sit down with 100 elders in our community and ask them about life, wisdom and what their thoughts are about...

how they feel about the world today; what their pet peeves are; and what would they say to the future generations.

These questions and many more are answered in an interesting series of videos, Wisdom of the Elders, directed, produced, and filmed by Peter Liciaga, a 49 year old master martial arts instructor. Liciaga will seek to answer questions about the important lessons our elders have learned on their respective journeys through life.

Participants’ responses to his questions range from humorous to fascinating to reflective.

View the Wisdom videos below.


Seniors Are America's Most Underutilized Asset

That’s what this project is all about: the things America’s seniors have learned from their many years of living, in their own words. It’s their personal observations, made from their individual perspectives – looking back.

Share Your Experiences

Peter Liciaga is interested in your experiences and would like to interview you. Please read through the interview questions below, answer the questions (as many or as few as you like) and email as an attachment to

Peter Liciaga (pliciaga@gmail.com)

Please be sure to include your address, telephone number and email address. Thank you!
Please let Peter know if you would allow him to interview you.
Questions: Looking Back

• As you look back over the years, how do you feel about your life? Any regrets?
• Anything you missed out on that you would liked to have done?
• Is there anything you would do differently if you had it to do over again? Would you follow a different path? In what way?
• Were you a self-confident child? Did your level of confidence change as you became an adult? If not, why not?
• Did you have a mentor or a special person who helped guide you as you were growing up?
• Did the lessons you learned from that person still stand out in your mind?
• What were your dreams and ambitions when you were growing up? Did any of them come true? If they did, did it have the same importance to you that you thought it would?
• What advice would you give to future generations?
• Finish this statement. "Wisdom is... "