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Gabby Viola – Fighting in 🥋 and out ⚕️ of the Ring

Let me share.  Life isn’t fair, the sooner you accept that the better.  In 2018, completely out of the blue, my daughter Gabby was diagnosed with bowel disease, an incurable inflammatory form of colitis 😥.  Without too much detail you’d never know she is sick on the outside, but on the inside, it is killing...

WAKO – IOC Olympic Membership Kickboxing / Sport Karate

WAKO  Kickboxing / Karate joins the IOC (International Olympic Committee) I am proud to announce that WAKO has officially joined the Olympic Family!  As director of WAKO Region 10 for the Untited States of America (which oversees Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, West Virgina, and Washington, DC) we are dedicated to helping train and field athletes...

Karate 2020 Olympics From Sport Karate Illustrated, May 2016: -By Bill Viola Jr. Judo made its Olympic debut in 1964, Tae Kwon Do in 2000. Karate, however, has yet to make an appearance.  Although poised, seemingly forever, karate has been rejected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on three separate occasions; Beijing, London and Rio...