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Be the best you can be in your world
Published on 2012-02-06 02:34:00
Towards the end of a short video I saw on the BBC site entitled The art of boxing, I was struck by this quote by the boxer and artist Thaddine Swift Eagle Johnson. An inspiring short video, it looks at her life as a champion boxer and the challenges she faces but also touches on her philosophy and how to look at things when life seems bleak. She says, "Be the best you can be in your world, or…someone else's world. Be that champion in someone else's world. Smile to someone on the street. You d
Kung fu piano playing
Published on 2012-01-30 09:58:00
Not as weird as it sounds. This pianist has developed an idea of continuous music and which necessitates long periods of piano playing sometimes culminating in 19 notes a second being played. Lubomyr Melnyk says that this requires a martial arts mindset: in order to achieve this speed one needs to turn one's body "into water". "The technique is based on a martial arts, kung fu use of the body and the energy" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16794606 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu
The Grand Master says, "she works hard, she can do it": Memoir of a female Kuk Sool Won master
Published on 2012-01-05 02:36:00
BBC News - Iron Butterfly: Memoir of a female Kuk Sool Won master Nice little film from the BBC about a young female martial artist who follows her dream. http://bbc.in/yuFmrc "As a young girl growing up in 1950s South Korea, Choon Ok Harmon faced a dismal future as the youngest of seven brothers and sisters living off money their mother earned free-diving for shellfish in the ocean." Also an interview by the publisher of the book and (ghost) writer:
