How to Never Lose Motivation for Training Karate I once read this interesting quote: “There is no such thing as “motivation”. There is only l...
How to Save Karate From It’s Dark Future (Before It’s Too Late) Yesterday my friend told me his dojo has grown 200% in the past week. Turns out, they got one new member. Ouch...
Warning: 93 Signs Your Dojo is a McDojo Imagine the fear: You have been training in your dojo for many years now, but a weird feeling is slowly creepi...
The 3 Habits of Highly Effective Karate Fighters Hey, Did I tell you the story of how I “won” my first – and only – medal at the nation...
20 (Even) More Things About Karate You Ought to Know All right folks! I’m finally back from a long week in Paris, with a bag full of fresh and exclusive vide...
Why You Should Lie to Your Karate Students (Occasionally) “Shiranu ga hotoke” (“Not knowing is Buddha.”) Once upon a time, during the 1970’...
Top 30 Most Awesomest KARATEbyJesse Quotes Ever (Illustrated) Yesterday I felt a bit artsy-fartsy and decided to create a couple of cool images from some of my own quotes f...
The 10 Lessons of Grandmaster Itosu: Revisiting Karate’s Most Valuable Historical Essay People keep e-mailing me on how to learn more about the history of Karate. They’re lost. And I totally u...
The 2 Types of Karate People – Which One Are You? This weekend I visited Berlin – the capital of Germany – for the first time. In case you havenR...
Re-Examining Channan: The “Lost” Kata of Itosu? When the legendary Winston Churchill once described Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an e...
“The K is on the Way”: An Exclusive Interview with the President of WKF – Karate’s Controversial Road to the Olympics 2020 (pt. 2) Note: This is part two of my exploration into Karate and the Olympics; interviewing the president of the WKF (...