BKF Memories

[image error]

 

Steve Sanders (now Steve Muhammad) is the greatest karate instructor I’ve ever known, and the Black Karate Federation was, in its heyday, simply amazing.  How amazing?  Well, at one point in the late 70’s, seven out of ten of the top competitors in the California-Nevada-Arizona tri-state area were Steve’s direct or indirect students.  Mind blowing.

 

Anyway, I thought I’d offer a few observations about my days training there.

 

 

1) All the brown belts looked pretty much the same. All the...