Muda, Muri, Mura – The 3 M’s of Karate Disclaimer: This post is heavily based on written content and contains no images whatsoever. Nevertheless, sin...
4 Evil (And Fun) Karate Pranks For April 1st This week my favorite day of the year arrives: April 1st. Also known as April Fools’ Day. The only day w...
What You Need To Know About Kata Statement: The original meaning of most kata (besides being used in self-defense) have been lost in the “...
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall… A few weeks ago I received a nice e-mail from an incredibly handsome gentleman, with a good taste in blogs, na...
Safe Is Risky. Risky Is Safe. So I’ve just arrived from Dutch Open, a big international Karate tournament held yearly in Rotterdam, Ho...
10 Small Karate Pieces (pt. 2) I drew ten more. Well, actually eleven. But ten looks better in the headline. Here’s the ten previous on...
10 Small Karate Pieces (pt. 1) Today I felt creative. So, for this post I decided I would get me a notebook, and a pen… and then dig de...
“Dear Kata Critic…” There are some pretty fun words and phrases out there. For example, in German they have the horribly long word...
2 Things Driving School Taught Me About Karate Sometimes you learn the most valuable lessons in the most unexpected situations. In driving school for instanc...
The Mysterious Martial Monk (pt. 2) (This is part 2 of ‘The Mysterious Martial Monk’. If you haven’t read part 1, you really sho...
The Mysterious Martial Monk (pt. 1) A long, long time ago, in a land far, far away, there lived a boy who – like most boys at some part of t...