What do you do when you find a weakness? What do most people do: Hide from it? Get angry? Swell up to compensate? Start crying? All of these are normal human traits. What about embracing it? Hmmm Should our nature be one of finding weaknesses so something can be done about them? This discussion is […]
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The number 3 is very significant and satisfying for human beings. “The power of 3,” “3rd time’s the charm,” 3 divisions of time: past, present and future. Along these lines I present to you my personal view of the three ingredients that make up the delicious dish that is Karate: Art. Physical conditioning. Self-defense. It
When watching young children at play you can see traces of our primitive selves. Before we “un-learn” all our ancestral instincts growing up in modern society we can observe many movements that complement our design. When children play or “fight” the natural instinct is to grab, wrestle and roll around. Children do not know, naturally,
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The idea of Phases of Growth came to me during precious and rare moment of enlightenment while running kata. Such events are great (to me) because a “new” thought comes, grows, becomes clear and stays with me even after the kata is done. Sure, we all can get into a zone while doing an activity.
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For as long as people have been fighting, those same people have wondered what the best fighting style is. Can style X beat style Y in a straight-up fight? How do I knock their teeth out without getting my teeth knocked out? Let’s discuss this question for a moment. The original stated purpose of the
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In 1974, Timothy Gallwey published his groundbreaking book The Inner Game of Tennis. Instead of serving up technique, it concentrated on the fact that “Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game.” The former is played against opponents, and is filled with lots of contradictory advice; the latter is played not against,
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How many times have you walked into a fitness class, dojo, or gym and not been comfortable in your own skin? How many times have you seen others enter a fitness environment and then not return? Do you ever wonder what happened to them? Why didn’t they come back? How many times have you been asked to meet
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Idiolect. id·i·o·lect /ˈidēəˌlekt/noun The speech habits peculiar to a particular person. Is Martial Arts Language? There are many parallels between language and martial arts. We can almost call martial arts styles languages themselves. But not quite. The idea is still fun to play with. Some vocabulary: Technique = word. While words aren’t the smallest part
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Karate practice involves increased efficiency of the use of the human body. What is the extreme development of the punch? How much force needs to be generated to be considered extreme? Why develop the punch at all? A punch is known by the general public as the main self-defense tool. (I think the brain is
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