What is a practice? What can it do? Practice is not just a workout. It is a recognition of engagement at that moment. It records, immediately, every nuance expressed in your story, laying those tiles piece by piece. Often, workouts sidestep the mind and can barely be remembered by dinnertime. From practice we recall the […]
Dec
23
2018
23
2018
May
14
2012
14
2012
What Do You Practice and Why?
I remember reading an interview where someone asked Hawkins Cheung what Wing Chun made up his practice. In other words what was his regimen. “That’s for beginners,” he said. “I practice whatever I want.
Sep
20
2010
20
2010
Keeping Strong
I’m sixty now and in better shape than I have been in decades. I think I’ve passed through the same tunnel recently …
Aug
23
2010
23
2010
When All About You
A quick thought, nothing more. It’s nice in times like these to take stock of things. And when the market is crumbling, the job rate rising, we Americans are embroiled in what some see as the wrong wars, and generally the world is wobbling, it is indeed time to separate the flimsy from the solid. […]
Aug
17
2010
17
2010
A Rock and a Hard Spot
For Those Times When the Training Seems To Stop One minute you’re Bruce Incarnate, the next you’re unable to tie your shoes without the danger of a self-inflicted eyeshot.
Jul
28
2010
28
2010
Clicking
When it happens to you, you know it. That electric dusk-sensitive porch light clicks on…
Jun
1
2010
1
2010
Practice SPACE!
Everyone says Kung Fu came from the animals, then they never look at any animals.
Jun
8
2009
8
2009
A Lesson from Cousin Push
It was during one of those conversations that pepper a good workout that Robert Nakashima, Eddie Fong and I found ourselves agreeing that there were all sorts of problems to Taiji’s famous Push Hands, especially regarding the clarity—or lack of it—to students of Taiji.
Oct
9
2008
9
2008
Holding Together
A bank for the poor seemed so ridiculous. And now look at the towers toppling and “their” banking system crumbling. Perhaps Grameen will float them a loan after the dust settles.
Aug
10
2007
10
2007
Depression; walking the hallway
There is a wonderful, useful stubbornness to the martial character. And sometimes it just trudges right through the sticky spots.
Jan
17
2001
17
2001
The Problem of Practice
“Thoughts come when it was thoughts one came to escape…”
