Gear is good. Knowledge is better. A frame of mind is both. Who am I ? Do you define by history ? training ? belonging to a tribe or culture ? Perhaps values 🙂 What do I not see ? A shadow can be cast by many things and nothing at all. Questioning the projection… Read More Question kit for the day after
Here are ten movement drills to enhance and deepen your understanding of space, tension and natural movement. The tool in use is the staff but the lessons apply much further. Look at the drills as child games so your learning will be fresh and honest. Do not rely on technique. Feel what is right for… Read More playing/growing with the staff
What does it mean to ask smaller questions? It means to find a heading instead of a destination, a way of life instead of a martial art and joy instead of fear. The martial artist prepares the body for combat, prepares the spirit for the clash and the heart for trial. The one who lives… Read More Ask smaller questions – be faster, deeper and healthier
Here are ten books to open a deeper portal to yourself. Through knowing ourselves we achieve freedom and are able to bring more good to our lives and the lives of those who surround us. Diary Of A Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, And Experiences – Learn the process of formation and patching things… Read More Ten books to open a window to your soul
At times we find ourselves with no reserves. No luck or shoulder to fall on. A moment of emptiness and void. A singularity with no shade as it casts no light. Sometimes time drags us out of the void and sometimes the gear wheels of habit take us forward but not beyond that moment. Trauma… Read More Empty
1. MAKE FRIENDS – it is nice to have people watch your back and it is easier to fight a group when you are a part of a group yourself. 2. BE IN THE MOMENT – Consider what you will say in the interview or how to plot your course in the night operation but… Read More Ten simple ways to avoid violence
Know there is a solution but remember it may not be in the direction you cast your nets. Find joy in the little steps and letting the work make up the form of the whole. Be consistent in paying attention to detail. Let your point of view evolve with your work. Every part of the… Read More TEN COMMANDMENTS OF CONTINOUS LEARNING
In the beginning all is new and shiny. The world is ours to experience with no shame or construct and there is much joy. In the middle we plow toward targets and view through a filter lens both reality and the response to all the output within us. At the end we let go of… Read More Young and old eyes
What is the worst that could happen ? We all have fear and we all have thoughts and feelings about the future and pangs about the past. In the same way we are injured and blinded by the tensions we are not aware of, we are affected and harmed when we do not face our… Read More the heart of darkness
We hold the sword and some feel powerful, some feel protected and others feel one part of them overriding the others as they done a mask of how they see a sword wielder. Technically the blade or tip are a simple power focus device. A regular arm movement by a regular person is focused into… Read More The strong and the sword
