3 Things My First Triathlon Taught Me about Karate (& Life)
I finally did it. After swimming my ass off in the ice cold, pitch black water of Stockholm’s murky old ...
How To Learn Karate in 10 Seconds?
Everything is supposed to go so fast these days. “Modern Kung-Fu Karate: Iron Poison Hand Training, Book...
Kyudo Mugen: Karate Is Like Boiling Water
You know what I can’t stand? People who take “pauses” from Karate. “Oh, I’m so b...
What Should I Be Focusing On? A Karate Dilemma.
Somebody died and made me king, emperor and dictator-for-life of Karate therapy online. Here’s my latest...
How To Practice Karate Alone
Here’s a question I get a lot: “Dear Jesse-san, Training Karate alone is very hard for me. I know ...
Billy And The Banana – Karate’s #1 Rule
A while ago we held an advanced instructors course at out main dojo, open for all instructors and assistant in...
Keizoku Wa Chikara Nari
Have you heard about the 10’000 hour rule? No? Simply put, there exists a theory that in order to be an ...
Dorodango – The Way of Mud
Imagine you are out walking, on a chilly autumn day. The wind is howling, and some rain is dripping from the l...
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...
Nintai – Perseverance (pt. 2)
Last time I wrote about the importance of showing up, or in other words regularely doing what you would like t...
Nintai – Perseverance (pt. 1)
“80% of winning is showing up” – Woody Allen Showing up, coming to practise, training. It...