You’ve seen the picture. A very impressive karate guy doing a spin around kick facing a monkey with a gun.
Who is your money on?
Yes, as a martial arts master, my money is on the monkey with the gun.
Monkey pulls the trigger and martial arts fighter with muscles of steel and years of discipline falls in a [...]
Continue Reading →The most important part of joining a gym is to go to the gym. When you get there, you’ll do something. If you lift weights or shoot hoops or run on the treadmill, it doesn’t matter, it’s all good.
When you sign up for karate lessons, go to the dojo. It doesn’t matter if the [...]
Continue Reading →Some karate is useful for real self-defense and some karate is some is all show.
If you watch pretend fighting, a lot will be going on. Karate tournaments are basically pretend fighting. There will be multiple spinning, flying kicks that don’t connect and punches to targets that don’t matter.
Continue Reading →If a tiger is resting peacefully, you leave him alone.
You do NOT poke the tiger with a stick.
You know why. In a flash, that tiger will leap and tear you to pieces. There is no doubt. You will lose. You may have a knife. You may have a gun. Guess [...]
Continue Reading →Ah …. NO.
But, this doesn’t mean that you can’t have a tough mindset, because you can.
Every day, challenge yourself. Find something that’s hard for you to do and do it.
If you’re fat, get off your ass and walk around the block. When you stop huffing and puffing, do it [...]
Continue Reading →A good teacher gives lots of criticism followed by positive encouragement.
Every challenging task has a first day. You have a first day on a diet. You have a first day exercising. You have a first day studying karate.
As a first timer, you feel out of place. You are out of place, out of [...]
Continue Reading →A martial artist is always alert and aware to his or her surroundings.
Insight and instinct born of eternal vigilance.
Vigilance takes practice. So, while you’re waiting, you can practice. Watch people going in and out of the Starbucks. Look for people or any signs that look out of place.
Practice. Try to spot every [...]
Continue Reading →I was originally going to name this post, “Why Special Forces soldiers quit,” however, this would be ridiculous since being SF means that YOU NEVER QUIT.
OK, we are only talking about men – only men in SF. Too many twenty something [and now thirty something] “Emerging Adult Males” are not exactly Green Beret, Seal, [...]
Continue Reading →Hide your talents.
Work hard until you die.
Give everything away.
Bear hardships.
This is a warrior.
This is the Master.
Believe in God. Feel blessed [...]
Continue Reading →Think about the PAUSE.
If you pause and panic and freeze into a state of inaction, you will lose.
If you pause and relax and observe and consider and then act, you will most likely prevail.
Most trash talk is bluster. It means nothing. It accomplishes nothing. If you can [...]
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