Quick Guide to Training in Ye Old Days Last monday, after class, a sempai came to me and asked me what it was like in ‘ye old days’ if yo...
Be Like Edible Crystalline Carbohydrates Sometimes you guys send me some pretty interesting links. Last month, for instance, I received a particulary i...
My System: Karate-jutsu (pt. 2) This is the second part of ‘My System: Karate-jutsu’. If you haven’t read part 1, then you s...
My System: Karate-jutsu (pt. 1) I like studying languages. But, sometimes the human need for formulating/reducing things to a system just beco...
2 Famous Traditional Karate Stories Now and then, the kids in our Karate classes ask me if I can tell them any cool Karate stories. Barely resisti...
Sensei Dracula And The Most Effective Submission Escape Ever It was a boxing match that will probably never be forgotten – or at least not this particular event in i...
The Dynamics of a Black Belt A while back, we received a phone call to the dojo. The call came from somebody who had been training Karate o...
The Numb-Chuck ABCs (pt. 2) Note: This is part two of “The Numb-Chuck ABCs”. If you haven’t read part one, you really sh...
The Numb-Chuck ABCs (pt. 1) I recently received a very handsome e-mail from a very handsome reader. It goes (slightly abbreviated): “...
The Jing Method – Trademark or Truth? My friend Jing came over this weekend. Jing, as you probably understand, is Chinese. He is in his mid-tw...
Saigo No Ninja – Seiko Fujita “You have the talent to be a ninja. I would like to teach you ninjutsu. What do you think?” “...