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Celebrating Budo Accelerator’s 2021 Summer Academy
Over 3 weeks in July and August, high school students entered a real-life martial arts dojo in Orange County, CA and participated in a new breed of leadership development program designed by Budo Accelerator and offered in partnership with the Irvine Public Schools Foundation…
How Dojo Etiquette is a Training Ground for Leadership and Adaptability
Martial arts are a laboratory for real life, not ‘real life’ in themselves. Through martial arts practice, we learn how we respond to force, how to deal with less than perfect training partners, and how to react to things that we are taught, that don’t seem to make sense.
Empowering the Next Generation of Code Warriors
How the revolutionary martial art of aikido can be a game-changer for STEM education.
Forged in Adversity: Our Summer Leadership Academy
When Mark Tercek and I founded Budo Accelerator in late 2019, we never would have imagined what the world would look like today.