Over the next two and a half years Carter Hargrave would train and teach in the several styles of martial arts at the same time, Jeet Kune Do, Kempo Karate, Ju Jitsu and Gung Fu (Kung Fu). It was a very hard time in his personal and professional life. Hargrave was a Mr. Mom during the days taking care of two wonderful daughters and at night doing his training and teaching at his private sanctioned studio. The hours were rough and the training was even more so. The creature comforts that most students know at commercial martial arts facilities were a distant memory. The training was grueling with no air conditioning in the summer usually working in the hot sun wearing the customary black combat attire and the winters were well winter. “The really fun part was that everyone was bigger than me so I had to pay constant attention or get my head handed to me, and sometimes you just got your head handed to you anyway.” “I am glad I went through the training though, it made me very hardened mentally in a way you dont find at most of todays schools. It was an instructor training school, not a student school.” “Regular students stayed for one class and they were gone.” “I could teach this hardened manor but I would go broke.” No one wants to put up with that much pain” “It was a joy fighting someone who outweighs you by one hundred pounds”, says Hargrave jokingly. “You gotta really want it bad”.