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With the COVID lockdowns coming to an end I have witnessed an excitement to return to the dojo on several sites and social media. I have also noticed a common topic of discussion floating around and answered differently based on

Anyone reading this essay is probably already involved with the martial ways.  I use the term “ways” to cover the variety of intent involved with these practices.  Let me take the three basic approaches that are practiced in the 21st

In most martial arts, the first techniques that you learn are usually strikes.  (In grappling arts, you learn how to fall without being broken.)  Then, you learn how to not be struck. This is usually called blocking.  Oh, and don’t

The first of the Twenty Precepts of Karate is that “Karate begins and ends with courtesy.”  The first tenant of Tae Kwon Do is “courtesy.”  And yet, as the decades have passed, I have seen courtesy become less common in

Where do I start writing about what I have learned in six decades of training and study?  My childhood was spent as a military brat, learning to shoot, march, crawl and even fly (in aircraft, of course).  “Reveille” in the

Romans 12:9-21 “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the