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  • Water training

    Water training

    Being in the water is a natural experience. We’ve all spend months in liquid and returning to it is second nature. Standing neck deep in water is relaxing and can be challenging in the right mindset and conditions. If the temperature is low, then the body needs to contend with the elements and the blood

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  • A line in the sand

    There is a saying that we are treated as worse as we allow. I want to introduce a few physical examples of this concept but also urge you to consider where this concept comes to life in everyday life and the relationships we hold with family, friends and the powers that be beyond the people.

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  • NICE is a killing word

    Today we have many schools for martial art that teach very little while costing us time and even derails us from true understanding and harms us. How do we distinguish what is good for us and what is harmful ? How do we take this lesson and enact it in our being instead of keeping

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  • Balance between give and take

    In confrontations there is no balance between the streams. There will only be a balance within the theater the confrontation takes place in. In physical confrontations, we will gain balance once we are mindful to the internal streams of tension and movement within. Knowing the internal theater of war lets the one in conflict see

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  • Power allows for grace

    There is a strong trend in martial art and in life where we claim technique is greater than brute force. In many cases, it is true yet there is no place for us to neglect our force production when we consider the full human or any system we are upholding and wishing to thrive, from

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  • Death and life in one step

    We live two lives. The one before we know our mortality and the one which follows the understanding we are but leaves in the wind. Merits are held by both and none is better than the other. The martial world is thus divided too. There are martial arts that come to win, harm, maim and

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  • Running

    Running

    Running a one of the movements humans excel in. Most people do not know we can outrun almost any animal on earth in long distance running and we can carry quite a bit of mass as well. Getting there from a modern sedentary life is less of a straight line. Several factors require treatment and

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  • Staying Hip

    Staying Hip

    The hips are the center of the body. Moving them well contributes to all other movements and connects them in an enhancing chain of small and greater movements. Begin: Place yourself in the pushup position and rotate your hips while in this in one side and then the next. Note your preference and always start

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  • Risk

    Risk

    There is always risk in a fight and there is a risk in avoidance too. We choose by making decisions and by postponing them too. Sometimes our decisions are made out of negatives being weighted and sometimes by a higher values such as hope or a need to change for the better. In mortal combat

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  • Seeing with closed eyes

    Are there secrets that hide behind our eyes ? Perhaps so. We enjoy a waterfall of input from our eyes on a regular basis. This overabundance overrides other input streams causing us to devote less time to our hearing, smell, taste and body sensation. A monochrome painting gives less input but allows us to see

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