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Let me tell you about an interesting concept I once came up with: First of all, have you heard about the game ...

To better understand and appreciate the Karate that we’re all practising there are several approaches on...

Karate by itself is not a science. It’s really not. Even though people sometimes say it is, I don’...

Statement: The original meaning of most kata (besides being used in self-defense) have been lost in the “...

Today I felt creative. So, for this post I decided I would get me a notebook, and a pen… and then dig de...

There are some pretty fun words and phrases out there. For example, in German they have the horribly long word...

Practising Karate it is unavoidable that one must use the Japanese language to some extent. Rei, Hajime, Yoi, ...

Two weeks ago I taught a Karate class for kids. (Of course I do that every week, but two weeks ago something s...

I love paradoxes. Specifically the philosophical ones. It’s really fascinating how a statement (sometim...

“His grip was so strong that he could rip the bloody flesh from his opponents arms” Yeah, right. W...

This weekend I was at the German Open 2009, one of Europe’s biggest Karate competitions I believe. It wa...