Over the years, I have read Funakoshi Sensei’s precepts many times over and even though they seem simple on the surface, they have to become your own to be truly understood. I am starting this series of articles with precept 11, “Karate is like boiling water, if you do not …
Although I learned of this concept in Iaido class, I do feel that it certainly does apply to our Karate training. I was going through a kata and one of my fellow students, who was helping me with some kata details, made a comment about making each move of the …
I have spent the last six months adjusting to being a black belt. I have learned some interesting things and one that stuck out, just recently, is the lack of ego. Too much ego, not enough brain…. When I was coming up through the ranks, I was very concerned about …