Time To Break Out Of The Box? Old Vs. New You know what I can’t stand? People who are trapped in boxes. Squeezed into these tiny compartments R...
Understand The Textbooks of Karate – Empower Yourself Remember when you went to school? I mean, like high school, college, university or whatever? If not, just pret...
Exploring The Karate Mentality: Respect It Or Check It Was everything better before? An expression heard now and then, most often by veterans in their chosen field o...
Infiltrating The Okinawan Funakoshi Clan Today was my last day here in Okinawa. Too bad. So, of course I had to do one last sayonara-trip down the unbe...
The Karate River: Coping With Change Lately I’ve been thinking about this whole “kata” issue. More correctly, changes. I’ve...
The Truth of “Ti” Okay, I’m a little disappointed in you guys. Hear me out: Since I recently received my long-awaited 10th...
Exclusive Footage: The Secret “Bushi” Matsumora Yashiki I’m in Okinawa. We’re driving to a secret spot, located in Nago, two hours from Shuri Castle. Su...
Ryuei-ryu History & Ramblings: Kata Anan This weekend I’m going to do a seminar on the kata Anan, and when I give seminars I always do a theory s...
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...
The Numb-Chuck ABCs (pt. 1) I recently received a very handsome e-mail from a very handsome reader. It goes (slightly abbreviated): “...
Siam – Discovering Karate’s Forgotten Source (pt. 3) "Hurry up, we're going to miss it!" I scream, as you gather together all of the juice, bread, fruit and other ...