Martial Arts & Life

Martial Arts & Life


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Your Karate Brain and Poison
September 01, 2021

Your Karate Brain and Poison. The information may already be understood by you, but let’s backfill a few gaps. Your Karate Brain and the Poison of Marketing The acts of the day, what we do on a daily

Karate and Your Self Mastery
August 25, 2021

Karate and Your Self Mastery. The precepts and the tenents of martial arts. The first is always the first and the last is always the first. The point is there may be a list but it is about each one th

Karate and Your Path to Excellence
August 18, 2021

Karate and Your Path to Excellence is a broad topic and needs to be addressed in three dimensions. The path to excellence is not style-specific. The Dirt Wasp Podcast is a podcast with a strident take

Your Mastery of Karate Beats Force
August 11, 2021

Your Mastery of Karate Beats Force.  We take a trip into the world of semantics, rock, and roll, and boxing. All of these are used to break down the differences between the words, power and force. Bot

Breaking Your Body and Karate
August 04, 2021

Breaking your body and karate. Religious orders and martial arts are not monolithic in their expressions. Yet there is a practice that both have and some still do engage in and that is the mortificati

Your Success in Karate
July 28, 2021

Your Success in Karate. The conversation is splitting into two streams, but only after the breakdown of the idea. “Education is not something you can finish.” – Isaac Asimov. Helen Keller has somethin

Little Value to a Black Belt
July 21, 2021

Little Value to a Black Belt. It has little value. And that statement has a sting to it as it discounts the effort you have put into the art. Comparing a black belt to an Engineering degree. And going

Martial Arts & Life Clip Show
December 23, 2020

Martial Arts & Life Clip Show. When I was a kid, I loved the year-end clip show. The clip show was an episode of at T.V. made up of selections from the year that are highlighted. Sometimes the show can be done as a year-end award show or to forward the...

George Rohrer – Kill Dragons
December 16, 2020

George Rohrer, Master Certified Executive Coach, We talk about killing dragons and the ascendant path. A weird article is Florida. It just is Florida. The three questions. And 50 degrees Fahrenheit is considered shockingly cold in Florida.

Lee Taylor-Grit and Direction
December 09, 2020

Lee Taylor-Grit & Direction. The first memory of karate was a bunch of people in white clothes walking into the church across the lane. Lee’s uncle, a martial artist in his own right, was a large and consistent part of Lee’s development.