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Fighting Words, Testosterone, and Honor
Published on 2012-02-05 10:33:00
I attended a one-day Isshinryu seminar yesterday. It was a good outing as I picked up a lot of useful information and techniques. After all these years it's humbling but good to realize there are more lessons to be learned. Several attendees tested for shodan and at the conclusion one of the chief instructors recounted a road rage incident that he was able to defuse earlier this week. His point was that if someone flips you off at a traffic light, shrug it off, don't think you're a badass becaus
How To Be A 'Class A' Karate-ka
Published on 2012-01-11 23:21:00
Peter Urban (l.) vs. Don Nagle in an exhibition match, New York, 1962One of the first books written on karate authored by an American was The Karate Dojo: Traditions and Tales of a Martial Art by Peter Urban. Urban studied Goju-ryu in Japan under Gogen Yamaguchi before establishing a school in Chinatown, New York.First published in 1967, the reader should appreciate that this was an era of massive cultural upheaval in the US, some of it for the worse: crime and drug abuse were on the increase, i
The Way of Holmes
Published on 2011-12-29 23:10:00
Just viewed the new movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Highly recommended. Holmes' character, nicely portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. and originally penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part sleuth, part whack job and all martial arts extraordinaire.Holmes' "curse", as he calls it, is an all encompassing, all consuming sense of acute awareness that gives him surveillance of his surroundings with impeccable scrutiny and detail. His ninja-like methods of stealth includes cross-dressing and "u
