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Here you will find creative ideas and solutions to help you teach your classes or seminars, navigate your own learning and promote your martial art.
2022-12-30 16:44
Violence is gross.
Violence is sticky.
Violence is intimate.
Violence is a solution.
Violence is a tool.
Tim Larkin has a quote, which I’ve touched on before, &ld&hell…Read More
2021-05-29 23:24
“It is necessary to drink alcohol and pursue other fun activities. The art [karate] of someone who is too serious has no flavour.” – Motobu Choki
I have a karate friend… Read More
2021-03-07 16:41
With 20 years in martial arts, I’ve watched a lot of people fail. Not necessarily in the physical or technical sense, but a whole lot in the philosophy and attitude sense.
On… Read More
2020-10-14 15:42
I’m on many martial arts threads and forums and along with common questions like “how to get the funk out of my gi?” and “how to prepare for your first tournament,&rd&hell…Read More
2020-04-13 12:11
Up until this point, Karate seems to have been having dwindling participation in recent years.
In my club, particularly amongst our kids’ classes, the numbers have steadily been goi… Read More
2020-03-29 18:17
The first and most obvious thing I’ve learned attending BJJ classes is BJJ. But, if you’ve been involved in the martial arts as long as I have, you know that there is a lot more… Read More
2020-01-27 20:06
Thanks to UFC and YouTube, martial arts in the last 20 years has become a melting pot.
Image: SIPA USA/PA Images
Where once individuals would stick within the confines of a single s… Read More
2019-09-26 16:08
“It’s not who’s good, it’s who’s left. It’s hours on the mat. If you put in the time, natural athlete or not, you’ll be a black belt. . . You just c… Read More
2019-07-18 14:56
Beauty and the Beast was and is my favourite movie. I still get chills from the opening scene.
A tale as old as time, it tells the story of an unlikely romance between an intelligent, yet… Read More
2019-07-05 14:34
At the Koryu Uchinadi North American Gasshuku, you will experience 4 – 8 hour days of physical and mentally demanding training. It will be a whirlwind of information covering everythi… Read More
2019-05-01 20:36
Doesn’t mean you can’t participate.
With most injuries, you can still be an active participant
in your martial arts community.
Recently I hurt my ribs, which restricts… Read More
2019-03-23 16:06
There are girls out there who use filters on Instagram to make their face look better. I use filters to accentuate the colour of my bruises.
I don’t wear this palette of black… Read More
2018-11-01 20:51
Friction. . .
It can be the thing that helps drive you forward. . .
It can be the thing that slows you down. . .
As yellow belts, my friend Tracy and I had a silent competition against each… Read More
2018-07-31 17:01
With the 2018 Koryu Uchinadi North American Gasshuku just around the corner, I had a chance to speak with Hanshi Patrick McCarthy (9th Dan) about what the Gasshuku means to him and what we&r&hell…Read More
2018-07-08 16:07
As a child, I was afraid of swimming in open water by myself; the vastness frightened me.
I was afraid that the weed that tickled my feet would be the thing that pulled me under.
I was afr… Read More
2018-01-03 22:24
“There are many paths to the top of the mountain. . .”
One night, I had a dream that I slid down a mountain and I was about to fall into the ocean. Before I hit the water, I cau… Read More
2017-12-06 01:47
Have you ever met someone in your dojo who just doesn’t get it!?
The student (and sometimes teacher) who will do martial arts for every reason under the sun, except for the reason the… Read More
2017-09-07 00:17
You know the one. . .
A Student
A student who showed so much promise. . .
With the ability to pick up movements with ease and grace,
An ability to strike and kick as if it was second nature… Read More
2017-08-16 13:44
Welcome to Martial Art Talks! The MAT is an interview blog series where I speak with the best and brightest the martial arts industry has to offer.
This week on the MAT, I speak with Tae Kwo… Read More
2017-08-05 17:06
Welcome to Martial Art Talks! The MAT is an interview blog series where I speak with the best and brightest the martial arts industry has to offer.
This week on the MAT, I speak with Shotoka… Read More
2017-06-29 16:51
Welcome to Martial Art Talks! The MAT is an interview blog series where I speak with the best and brightest the martial arts industry has to offer.
This week on the MAT, we speak with Koryu… Read More
2017-06-05 17:12
The sunk cost fallacy is when you make a decision based on the desire NOT to see your past investment go to waste, rather than on the best outcome.
Nowhere else do I see this phenomenon as… Read More
2017-05-25 01:58
Welcome to Martial Art Talks! The MAT is an interview blog series where I speak with the best and brightest the martial arts industry has to offer.
The first person to hit the MAT is K… Read More
2017-04-05 13:42
Any good instructor’s process is always under scrutiny. The instructor looks at the students and wonders, “Why aren’t they doing what I asked?” or “Is that real… Read More
2017-03-08 23:31
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2017-01-10 18:01
In Buddhism, they have a set of tenets called the Eightfold Path that serve as a guide for moral action and to relieve us from suffering. Amongst it’s precepts is “right speech… Read More
2016-12-22 14:35
My mother always said I had a charmed life—not necessarily in the sense of extreme luck such as winning the lottery, but more in the sense that I’m presented with fortunate circu… Read More
2016-11-15 12:59
There you are. . .
At your first seminar with a big, important Sensei. . .
Once you enter the dojo, you start to size up the Karate folk around you—wondering what rank they are, how lo… Read More
2016-10-03 20:49
The martial arts world attracts strong egos, big politics and more drama than a high school play.
Maybe, someone received a rank that you felt they didn’t deserve or someone of high es… Read More
2016-08-25 01:17
So, you went for your next belt and you failed!
But, just because you failed, doesn’t mean you should lose sight of your purpose; rain, after all, is just a falling cloud. . .
And, ev… Read More
2016-07-12 20:49
Have you ever watched your Sensei choose one individual over and over again to be his Uke and thought, “Why not me!?”
In any seminar or class, you’ll find the head Sensei w… Read More
2016-06-16 17:45
Michael Jai White is an actor that has starred in movies such as Black Dynamite and Blood and Bone. He is also a director, writer and a superb martial artist!
Michael Jai White, a student of… Read More
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