Episode 90. Ten Years Of Isshinryu Friendship & Teaching
The conversation
About Margie Barilar.
Margie Barilar sat down for Kumite Lifestyle. That conversation is episode 90, “Ten Years Of Isshinryu Friendship & Teaching”.
Margie is an Isshinryu karate teacher who lives about nine hours from Gatlinburg, Tennessee. She and Nick met around 2016 at Master Carl Hovey's tournament in King George, Virginia.
She was inspired by the TV show Kung Fu. In the 1980s she worked part-time at a fitness center, watched an Israeli martial arts group practice, and joined them in 1989 when the instructor invited her in.
Margie didn't start competing until 2015. She talks about stepping up from helper to leader, and her love for Isshinryu and the Hall of Fame.
“I'm not quite ready to hang it up”
“I joined it was back in 1989”
From the episode
- It's never too late to start competing.
- Helpers can step up to lead.
- Sometimes all it takes is an invitation.
- Discipline
- Isshinryu Karate
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