In the spirit of the holiday season, I would like to show my gratitude and give thanks to some of the inspirations for this blog… [Read more →]

The Popular Articles section in the right column of this page is automatically inserted by the Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress.  Unfortunately, the current version of this plugin (1.1) is not completely compatible with my version of WordPress (2.0.2). [Read more →]

After dedicating most of my day to work and family obligations, I am lucky to find a spare hour or two for my martial arts hobby. Many of you have a similar problem, no doubt.

We could practice an hour per day for our entire lives, without exhausting the breadth and depth of martial arts. Considering the scope and challenge of the task, can we really afford to spend our precious time blogging about practice, at the expense of time spent in practice?

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