Discovering An Old Secret Manual of Karate… This morning seemed to be like any other morning. I woke up early as usual (darn rainy season) and headed for ...
“The 100 Deadliest Karate Moves” – The REAL Meaning of Karate Last week, while browsing some Karate books, I found a really interesting book. It is in English, and on the f...
The Shiisa Dojo: A Pictorial Journey Yesterday I visited a very special “dojo”. It was not your average dojo though… because they...
The 5 Secrets for a Successful Club (And Longer Life?) The life of a typical Okinawan boy (or girl) basically circles around two things: School… and Sports Whe...
Wabi-Sabi Have you ever seen something beautiful, like a piece of furniture, or a sculpture, or painting, and thought ...
The Makiwara – Thoughts, Ideas and Quotes The other day I headed to the local Sumo arena, just to look around a little. Usually you will see about ten o...
Elephants, Lions & Kihon What do you do on the evenings? And I don’t mean when you train, but after training. Like when you have eate...
Understanding “The Smile” (pt. 2) This is part 2 of ”Understanding the ‘Smile’”. If you haven’t read part 1, please do so. Okay, let...
Understanding “The Smile” (pt. 1) Run, run, run! Sweat is dripping down my forehead. I’m late for the monorail. It leaves in five seconds or s...
The Two Sides of Muchimi Imagine a big jar filled with honey. Sweet, sticky, thick honey… Stop drooling, it’s only a though...