Chiron

We were too late for the early morning ferry, so we left Victoria very late, driving down through Washington State in the dark. It was late...

On the ferry from Victoria, by chance, we were treated to a dance troup from New Zealand- a demonstration of Maori dances and singing. It w...

Swamped right now. Barely been near a computer for the last week and will be heading off for vacation (anybody in Victoria BC?) for a week ...

These are works in process, more questions than answers, so take them for what they are worth. In the last post I talked about heart or spi...

He's tall and lanky. Crack skinny. Almost toothless. Homeless couture and homeless smell sitting in a plush chair in the bank lobby. ...

It would seem that mind and body would be enough, wouldn't it? There are your physical actions and your decisions- what more need be sa...

Here's a question: Can heart be trained? Some of the answers are sure and glib, but leave me unconvinced. Heart can be faked... What do...

Sometimes, when you practice an old art a detail will jump out at you and it slowly sinks in... this was used for killing people. We have se...

This started as a simple idea, then another idea and then a third idea that tied them together. Really, this should be three posts, but the...

Complex things are simple, once you learn to deal with what they really are. Fighting is simple. You already know how to move, you've ...

Finishing up my degree in psychology I had to look into the publishing policies of the APA. They disturbed me at the time, and they still d...

Impact arts- karate, wing tsun, TKD and the like have a serious disadvantage in live scenario training. In real life, you hit someone hard ...

This is the title of a seminar that I've done a couple of times over the last few years and I recently read someone describing 'safe...

A question I threw out elsewhere and I want to discuss it here. There are three (actually four) discrete ways that people respond to fights...

The fourth day of training wasn't for the team. Saturday morning I got up and hit the road before first light and made the long drive t...

It's been a long week. Anybody miss me? One day of training in a classroom- weapons of mass destruction recognition and familiarity; ne...

It is the opposite of writer's block. Working on the introduction to the citizen's guide to police use of force, I find myself want...

It was a smaller group than in the past. Too many old friends with obligations, plane tickets and scared significant others couldn't ma...

Ueshiba was a martial genius. When I want to tease aikidoka I just say, "Aikido is what happens when a really good jujutsuka gets reli...

Doing some research for the next book and I ran across a reference to Amnesty International's 2006 study on Taser use. The reference cl...