Early Years
Joe Corley began studying Tang Soo Do at age sixteen and earned his black belt at nineteen, opened his first martial arts studio at age nineteen. He won the National Karate Grand Championship in 1969, 1971, 1972; the Southeast Grand Championship in 1967, and the Southern US Open in 1971 and 1972. Corley opened Atlanta's first karate studio in 1967 and created Joe Corley's American Karate System in 1972.
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“If there is a price to pay for the privilege of spending the early years of child rearing in the driver’s seat, it is our reluctance, our inability, to tolerate being demoted to the backseat. Spurred by our success in programming our children during the preschool years, we may find it difficult to forgo in later states the level of control that once afforded us so much satisfaction.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)