Have you taken a good look at your Karate lately? Do you evaluate where you are at, where you are going and adjust your training based on your goals? Are you training for the sake of training even though it might not be helping reach your goals? This is one area that I haven’t given [...]
[Continue reading…]The road between brown and black belt is long.
September 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I have read many times about how there is so much pressure on Karate students when they finally reach brown belt. Could it be true… After moving past all of the other color belts, the hard working brown belt is only one belt color away from Karate nirvana. I have even heard that the brown [...]
[Continue reading…]Are you sore from training? Listen to mother and soak in Epsom salts.
July 31, 2008 By Leave a Comment
For many years, whenever I was sore from working out or training hard, my mother told me to take a hot bath and add some Epsom salts. For over 40 years of not listening, I never used Epsom salts but one day recently, I gave them a try. I didn’t think I would get much [...]
[Continue reading…]How to bow.
June 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment
In the advanced Karate class that I take with Sensei Cieplik, we always begin in seiza, after that, everyone stands up and we do a quick, two second or so, bow to Sensei Cieplik. We have been doing this for some time now but in a recent class, he mentioned that if we are going [...]
[Continue reading…]Zanshin – Remaining mind.
June 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Zanshin is a Japanese term which is translated in English as remaining mind. This was explained to me by one of my Sensei’s as being aware of your surroundings and ready, both mentally and physically, to immediately defend or attack after finishing a previous attack or defense. Another Sensei explained it as the remaining film [...]
[Continue reading…]Don’t be afraid of your chiropractor. It just might help your Karate.
September 18, 2007 By 2 Comments
For many years, I have had a fear of chiropractors (and doctors in general but that’s a different story) from people telling me horror stories about how they knew someone who knew someone who was hurt or even crippled by going to the chiropractor. These were all good people who were looking out for my [...]
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