Martial arts comes from a long period in human history when the closest correlate to scientific thinking was pattern identification. This was a time made wondrous with the rules of magic, codes and ciphers, ritual and ceremony. For example, I think this act of pattern recognition is much more significant when talking about the animalistic […]
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2017
18
2017
Aug
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2013
20
2013
The Hardest Thing
There are many things about the martial arts that are just plain hard. The training can be rigorous, the stances agonizing, the competition unfair and disappointing, the raise in skill levels infrequent. But without a doubt one of the hardest things in the martial arts is to leave. Paul Simon had a song, “Fifty Ways […]
