Martial Arts Mastery Requires Time, Effort and Experience
I just got home from teaching my Saturday morning martial art class. Everything hurts. My orthopedic surgeon and my pain management doctor warn me...
The Privilege of Servitude
In this article I would like to explore two concepts about leadership. The first is the ability to follow. The second compares servitude to leadership.
The Other Side
One day a young Buddhist on his journey home came to the banks of a wide river. Staring hopelessly at the great obstacle in...
Putting the Pieces Together (Volume 1)
Quotes are like pieces of experiences, the quotes summarize in a line or two a lesson learned for life. The hope is always to...
Make Your Bed
Make Your Bed is based on the incredible graduation speech by Admiral William H. McRaven, "If you want to change the world, start off...
Kata and Prearranged Drills Are About Cooperation
In today’s hypercompetitive society, where everyone is trying to outdo someone else, these kinds of traditional martial art drills are the closest we can...
Street Experience
As a martial arts and self defense teacher, I've joked about my lack of real world self defense experience, but I've had street experience.
Martial Arts Ramblings . . .
Thank you for listening to the martial arts rambling of an old man. I appreciate your patience. Like many my age my martial arts...
What Modern Children Need
What Modern Children Need (in my opinion),
In my 35 years of teaching martial arts I've had the privilege of working with literally thousands of...
Appreciating Our Children
When my son, Alex, was little, I came home from work in a big hurry because I wanted to go for a run before...
Capoeira Workout At Home
Capoeira is a martial art with real combat effectiveness, strength is variable, combining strong kicks with acrobatics. Capoeira brings together many other arts.
Bad Habits
A wealthy man requested an old scholar to wean his son away from his bad habits.
The scholar took the youth for a stroll through...
The Journey from Orphan to Soke
Largely a first person narrative accompanied by focused, honest questions and answers and star studded tributes, this 95 year old WWII veteran tells his story from Orphan to Soke.
Renshindo – Proficiency in a Contest
In this segment, I would like to speak some more on the principle of proficiency in a contest, (Renshindo). The primary goals of the...
The Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another,...
Dale Kahoun’s Do Now Harm Martial Arts Teaching Philosophy
It takes greater skill to capture an opponent and neutralize them than to harm or kill them. The choices of course are circumstantial.
To say...
