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 …
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 …
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 …