WARNING: Positivity Is Highly Contagious This weekly post highlights positivity in the martial arts from around the world. Unfortunately, it is far too easy to find negative stories on the internet. Positive ones, however, are harder to find. Let’s recognize and celebrate those martial artists and schools who are doing good [Read More]
A few weeks ago I wrote about my desire to bring some data to martial arts school owners. I know how critical data and numbers are to every business, and I’ve found it frustrating that I can’t find simple, comprehensive data. You can read that last article here. As I [Read More]
Keep Radiating Positivity! This weekly post highlights positivity in the martial arts from around the world. Unfortunately, it is far too easy to find negative stories on the internet. Positive ones, however, are harder to find. Let’s recognize and celebrate those martial artists and schools who are doing good things in [Read More]
Train For Your Environment By Adapting All martial arts were developed to serve a specific function from a specific time period. Many of the older martial arts have tried adapting to modern-day environments with varying degrees of success. However, some are more suited to our modern environment than others. Japanese [Read More]
Title: Irish Swordsmanship: Fencing and Dueling in Eighteenth Century Ireland Author: Ben Miller Format: Hardcover Pages: 483 Price: $34.95 (Hardcover)/$23.95 (Softcover) In the interests of transparency, I was given this book for review purposes. HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) has an unusual place in the minds of many of us [Read More]
Positivity Is A New Season Of Football! This weekly post highlights positivity in the martial arts from around the world. Unfortunately, it is far too easy to find negative stories on the internet. Positive ones, however, are harder to find. Let’s recognize and celebrate those martial artists and schools who are [Read More]
Age Happens I literally caught myself mid screenshot. Click. Please tell me I didn’t just do that. *peer in horror through my fingers at the phone screen. “AGE IS JUST A NUMBER” I just took a screenshot of that quote. *gulp. Don’t know about you, but I’m thinking this is [Read More]
It was embarrassing the first time I tried to put my black belt on after a 10 year break. It had collected its fair share of dust and my waist had collected its fair share of padding. I had received my black belt in Taekwondo right before I left for [Read More]
The Long, Winding, And Unexpected Road to Black Belt At one point or another in our studies, we’ve come across one version or another of this question: “How long does it take for a normal person to get their black belt?” Well, normal people don’t get a black belt. We [Read More]
The ancient Samurai believed a strict code of conduct. These principles and ideals are collectively known as Bushido. Among these values are honesty and integrity, honour, loyalty and responsibility. The ancient Samurai believed that speaking and doing are essentially the same. Someone who is honest and has integrity does not [Read More]
Enjoy Some Positivity This Labor Day Weekend! This weekly post highlights positivity in the martial arts from around the world. Unfortunately, it is far too easy to find negative stories on the internet. Positive ones, however, are harder to find. Let’s recognize and celebrate those martial artists and schools who are [Read More]
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