Effective, Adaptive Martial Arts
I got my latest motorcycle a few weeks ago. I’ve had my motorcycle license since the day I got my drivers license on my 16th birthday. I have owned several bikes over the years, but it’s been a while since my last bike. I was so stoked to get on one again and feel the … Read more
If you want to get really good at something, and you don’t have 10,000 hours to do it, you may be in luck. In his book The First 20 Hours – How to Learn Anything… Fast, Josh Kaufman explains how you can get good – really good – at any new skill, in as little … Read more
The other day, I was holding the lid to a bottle of vitamins. I had the bottle in my other hand and a couple vitamins in the hand with the lid. I didn’t have the best grip on the lid and couldn’t quite get it screwed back on without dropping it. But I didn’t drop … Read more
The other day, I was filling up an empty water bottle. It was one of these really thin ones that you get in a big pack of like 24 and can quite easily be crushed up and recycled. I was filling it up from a large pitcher of water and noticed something interesting as it … Read more
I was watching one of the Batman movies the other day. There were several things he did as he was fighting the bad guys that I thought I’d like to be able to do, but it would require me to build my strength and flexibility in certain ways. The first thing I saw that I … Read more
We all want to win in life. Well, most of us, anyway, but that’s a different topic. How we go about winning is the important thing. There are at least two ways to win. The first is to work really hard, practice, get better, overcome your obstacles, etc., and reach or surpass your target. Boom. … Read more
As a part of our martial arts training, we should try to imagine black swan events that we might experience and then train for those possible situations. To begin with, let’s define a black swan event. The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes … Read more
Jackie Chan is awesome. One of my favorite people. I have loved his movies for years. But now, I’m learning more about him as a person and discovering many more reasons to be a fan. He is very well rounded. He’s a great actor and terrific martial artist. But it goes way beyond that. I’ll … Read more
So we’re now a few months past January first, when many people started (and by now have abandoned) some new goals. A lot of these goals had a time limit on them, like “I’ll lose X number of pounds by the first day of summer”. I think there’s a problem built into some of these … Read more
I read something this week that I thought was interesting and perfectly applies to our martial arts training and mindfulness. Now I don’t know if this is true or not, but the principle is sound, so I want to talk about it. The suggested idea is that people who walk in crosswalks are less aware … Read more