Training My Way Out of Grief
I’m pleased to present to you a guest post from Kai Morgan. In this post, she talks about how she used martial arts training to deal with grief. Kai Morgan is a blogger who focuses on how we can become better people through martial arts…
“Can’t” Gets You Fifty Pushups
Guest Blogger Cathy Chapaty is the author of No Pouting in the Dojo: The Imperfect Journey of Teaching Children Character through Martial Arts. A veteran martial artist, Chapaty has been respected as an empowering, positive teacher with a knack for helping children of all ages and abilities…
To Hell With Inadequacy
For years, I felt beset by a constant feeling of inadequacy, mainly due to being nearly deaf in an overwhelmingly hearing society. It’s easier said than done, but at some point, you will need to “just let go of this shit.” It can be difficult…
Downsizing
Recently, my wife and I downsized from our house in Oshawa to a townhouse in Ajax. The new place has half the square footage of our former house. This entailed a massive amount of purging before the move, starting in October and we are still going…
Can’t Keep Up? Do this Instead!
Just focus on your progress. That’s it! Instead of focusing on the fact that you “can’t keep up with others,” you should only focus on your progress. If the others have gotten the 12 angles of attack down immediately and you don’t, DON’T WORRY! Practice…
The Stick
It has been said often that the stick expedites the development of your natural attributes such as speed, power, coordination, timing, reaction speed, perceptual speed, spatial relationships, angle recognition, and footwork. Another benefit of stick training is that punches look slower to the FMA practitioner. How so?…
