OSU! Thank you for helping me advance towards my goal.Thousand Waves is my karate school and I train twice a week. Thousand waves is a non-profit organization that teaches a wide variety of kids and adults to do karate. Since they are non-profit they have an annual fundraiser once every year. They give lots of people scholarships so anyone can train.  I am fundraising to help them earn money. These are the reasons why you should donate and why Thousand Waves is so awesome.

First of all they teach you how to use words instead of fists all the time. This is an example: they teach you the 5 finger rule: think, yell, run, fight, tell. That means that you think of a solution. If it does not work, then you yell for help. If no one comes you run. If they catch you then the last resort is fighting. Then if you get away you should tell what happened.

They teach you KARATE. They teach you how to punch and kick correctly. They also teach you different kinds of kicks and punches that are pretty impressive and above the average punch. Third of all they teach you different tumbles and rolls. They are tricky but you eventually get it.

    They also teach you sparring. That is where you have gear on and face off with a partner. You use legal techniques to hit the other person to score a point. And you’re are not hurting them unless you get a contact error. Anyways it is very challenging and teaches you about fighting in a real life.

    Last, they teach kids with mental and physical disabilities. It's a program called ASK( adapted seido karate). They teach a little differently so the person can do the moves correctly. Or they teach them in a different way so they can do it. If you just break a leg or something like that you still do karate or say you cannot do it because it isn't permanent and ASK is people with permanent challenges.

    These are my reasons why you should donate to this marvelous karate school. My brother does karate and he is strong. He is learning to control his strength and I hope it helps him in the future. And now about myself. When my dad died when I was 6 I needed something to help me get out my anger. I started doing karate when I was 8. And now I am 10 and a advanced green belt and have learned to control my emotions. My brother and I used to punch SO wrong and now we know how to punch very strong and in the correct position and same with kicks. I hope you chose to donate to my karate school!