Martial arts – in a clenched fist If I approached you (or if you came into my store to make inquiries) and I tried to […]
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Four Strings / Chapter four – G String – “Sittin on the dock of the bay”
Sittin’ in the mornin’ sun I’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ comes Watching the ships roll in Then I watch ’em roll away again, yeah […]
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Four Strings / Chapter Three – D String – “Walking on the moon”
Walking back from your house Walking on the moon Walking back from your house Walking on the moon Feet they hardly touch the ground […]
Jiu-jitsu
50 years of martial arts
This year (2022) marks fifty years of training. Fifty years of sweating, bleeding and frustration, it is also fifty years of experiencing the joy […]
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Four Strings / Chapter Two – A string – “This is the day; your life will surely change”
You pull back the curtains And the sun burns into your eyes You watch a plane flying Across a clear blue sky This is the […]
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Four strings / Chapter One -E string – “Monday, Monday”
Monday, Monday (bah-da bah-da-da-da) So good to me (bah-da bah-da-da-da) Monday mornin’, it was all I hoped it would be Oh Monday mornin’, […]
Jiu-jitsu
12 Rules for choosing a martial art
12 rules for choosing a martial art (With apology to Jordan Peterson) Yoda doesn’t exist. (Read rule number two) If chi, pressure points or […]
Jiu-jitsu
Black belt – can you fight?
It is incumbent on those who teach that they deliver the content, if this is not possible, then don’t teach. When attending a guitar […]
Jiu-jitsu
A Gift of Fear
A Gift of Fear. At six years old I had my first experience with bad people, unbeknownst to me at that time, this was […]