Isshin - Concentration the Art

One of the hardest lessons you learn as an instructor is that your students will move on. No matter how much effort you put into their t...

. The Isshinryu code(1) of karate states “ a person’s unbalance in the same as a weight”. This if often understood as a way to unbala...

It is difficult for anyone in the beginning stages of training (say the first 5 years) to understand what a lifetime of kata study ent...

Charles Murray just reshared some old photos he took while training in Agena in 1972. I'm sharing them here. Here’s some March 1972 A...

Today, to make a diversion from the sameness of the day, I went for a short walk outside. Bouts of illness and changing weather of lat...

Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.   I grow old . . . I g...