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Sometimes you just read those articles that make you go: “Dang it! I wish I had the patience to write th...

I remember being at this great seminar once, covering all kinds of nifty kata application principles, when, su...

Sometimes you guys send me some pretty interesting links. Last month, for instance, I received a particulary i...

Imagine that you are living in a small village, hidden deep in a valley somewhere in a land far away. You don�...

People, we have a serious problem. I don’t know if anybody has noticed this before, but Karate masters o...

A few weeks ago I received a nice e-mail from an incredibly handsome gentleman, with a good taste in blogs, na...

It was a warm June evening in downtown Shuri. The sun was beginning to set, and I was getting a ride back ...

What do you know about kata? “Kata is a set of moves you perform in Karate” most people would say....

I guess everyone has heard or read about haiku, the famous Japanese form of short poetry stretching back to th...

The life of a typical Okinawan boy (or girl) basically circles around two things: School… and Sports Whe...

This is part 2 of ”Understanding the ‘Smile’”. If you haven’t read part 1, please do so. Okay, let�...