Isshin - Concentration the Art
Ongoing thoughts on my martial studies and interests, which encompass almost everything.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Never get in the car with Anybody
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It is an instructors burden to do more than just technique, guiding a student in sound underlying principles of self defense is often mo...
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Classic vs. Traditional
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The designation of the era’s of karate study that I’ve described previously originated with Charles Joe Swift , the Mushikan Dojo instructo...
Saturday, February 14, 2009
The Things we have in Common enable us to Communicate
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I was browsing through my latest copy of BBC Music magazine (dedicated to classical music) and an editorial caught my attention. It was tit...
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Recreating the Itosu Eight Point Kicking Drill
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I t is frequently difficult to translate something written into action. The following describes a kicking drill I re-created from my reading...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Kotekitae an art to Isshinryu Body Pounding
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A student in Lewis Sensei’s dojo, I received my introduction to Kotekitae . In his tradition it is a two person drill banging arms and strik...
Friday, January 30, 2009
Walking Karate
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When I thing about Karate's past, the pre-1900 era of training, there is so much that shaped those days we cannot recreate. 1. You...
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Preparation
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Back in 1979 I had the chance to study Yang Tai Chi Chaun with Ernest Rothrock at his new Scranton, Pennsylvania school. I was a new sho ...
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