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00:00And from Syria, from Damascus, I came here to United Arab Emirates since 1975 as a first
00:25karate instructor.
00:26I came first to Abu Dhabi.
00:28I started teaching karate there for a few months.
00:31And then I came to Sharjah.
00:34And then I started also teaching karate in some places.
00:38Teach in Ajman, in Sharjah, and also I teach in Al Ain sometime, until I get first license
00:46from municipality.
00:47It was 1980.
00:48And we start practice very well in club.
00:53This I think it was first karate center in UAE.
00:56Of course, I follow my teacher, Hideki Okamoto.
00:59He's in charge for Middle East and Africa.
01:01I visit him many, many, many time.
01:04And where is the training courses in anywhere in Europe, in Canada, in Emirates, in Egypt,
01:13I go to follow my teacher.
01:16And then 2010, I get my seven done as first karate instructor from area, Middle East and
01:24Africa.
01:25And I get first done from Tokyo, from Japan.
01:27I love to make also a show to explain for movement people what is karate.
01:33It's not only just to kill people, to hit people, to hurt people.
01:36No, to make them more polite, to control themselves, to control their body, to control their mind.
01:43And I believe karate instructor can help children more than parents because the children love
01:50to hear from the other, not from parents.
01:54Because parents always talking to them, but they like to hear from the other.
01:58I made also two books for karate for children.
02:01I love to make a show to explain people about karate, what is karate.
02:06And what make me enjoy, what make me happy, to see sometime very naughty boy.
02:14And then after one year, then he change.
02:16He become very calm, very nice, very good.
02:18Or who practice with me, I have fight for them.
02:21Ah, these are the student's files.
02:23Ah, what is the first file, which year?
02:28It was number 001, it's 171980.
02:32I teach many children.
02:34Some of them have special need.
02:36And I help, they improve after a long time, of course, they don't have that training.
02:41One of them in 2018, in the world championship in Spain, she get third position.
02:48I was very proud about her.
02:50I'm very happy with that.
02:51And of course, parents was very, very happy.
02:54Parents, they love their children to be strong, to be good, to teach them how to self-defense
02:59and to trust themselves.
03:01They send me here, send their children here to teach them.
03:05The most important thing to student, trust themselves.
03:08This is very important.
03:10Because when they trust themselves, they don't need to fight.
03:15The anybody won't try to attack them, to do trouble with them.
03:19When they feel there is something in this boy or this girl, so they will not attack them.
03:24So it become more safe, because of our sport.
03:28Not to use this martial art outside.
03:31This is very important.
03:32Because their energy, they can spend energy here in the club.
03:36They fight here, they fight here, they make very hard training, tough training.
03:42So they will go home, feel more relaxed.
03:44Then they can focus more for studying.
03:47This is what I believe.