A New Era Has Begun…
Yesterday I landed in Okinawa. But let’s talk about today. Because today was amazing. The story begins a...
The Best 4 Minutes of Your Life: Tabata
When doing physical exercise you are always training either your aerobic or anaerobic capacity. It’s rea...
What Is Ikken Hissatsu?
Ikken Hissatsu is a Japanese term that is used quite frequently in Karate (especially Shotokan). What does it ...
42 Bunkai to “Monk’s Salutation”
Let’s look at some bunkai (applications for techniques found in kata) again! Last time we did kakete, &#...
Nintai – Perseverance (pt. 2)
Last time I wrote about the importance of showing up, or in other words regularely doing what you would like t...
Nintai – Perseverance (pt. 1)
“80% of winning is showing up” – Woody Allen Showing up, coming to practise, training. It...
Horizontal vs. Vertical
There is a Chinese martial art that goes by the name of Wing Chun. Sometimes they spell it Wing Tsun too. For ...
The 3 Points of Throwing
Although Karate is mainly a striking, punching and kicking art, it involves joint locks, takedowns, strangulat...
The Hard Soft Style Swimming Academy
There is a quite famous book in Karate circles known as “Bubishi”. You might have heard of it. It ...
The Mayonaisse Jar
I love this story. I thought you might too. An old professor stood before his philosophy class. The students w...