Chiron

Teaching private students is fun and easy.  Provided they have good safety basics (they know how to take a fall and they don't panic at ...

The snow falls in fat flakes outside, pushed into flurries like ghosts by a fitful east wind.  It looks like it will stick this morning, bla...

When Wally Jay originally designed Small Circle Jujitsu he didn't see it as a system by itself but as something you could add to any sys...

My captain used to say, "For most people, carrying a gun is like a fifteen year old with a condom in his pocket.  He's not going to...

Teaching cops is different than teaching civilians.  One of the big differences is that in a regular martial arts class, your students want ...

Been asked to put together a few class for a writer's conference coming up in two months. Planning the classes has been fun- working wi...

Tired and busy. I'll be teaching six classes in the next two weeks from a custom lesson plan just for these guys. Have spent the last ...

We all do it. We have spent our entire lives creating a detailed mythic story of who we are. Nothing in this story is by chance. We never...

George Ledyard is an aikido instructor in the Seattle area. I haven't met him, but he wrote something once that really resonated, somet...

Steve Perry asked the $64,000 dollar question today.  I've answered it or tried to answer it in many ways over the years.  Sometimes I s...

Working on a presentation for a Writer's Conference and simultaneously teaching a class, I am hit once again with how absurdly ignorant ...

Steve P was polite enough to apologize for highjacking a thread in the comments section.  No problem and apologies are unnecessary.  The com...

This is going to be a little difficult to write, because there are no good guys in some of the stories. Not too long ago, a teenager decided...

Here's a big mystery for all of the martial arts instructors out there.  In every style, in every class, there are some things you need ...

As a former judoka and current jujutsuka, I've been choked a lot.  More correctly, I've been strangled: had a skilled opponent cut o...

I've been letting the Citizen's Guide concept stew in the back of my head.  Yesterday, it came together. The basic concept of the bo...

There is a subtle but powerful difference between professionals and amateurs.  People who play (or fight) for money don't think about it...

I am so tired right now that my eyeballs are twitching. Vision doesn't blur or flicker, but it feels like my eyes are jumping and twitc...

Steve, a local author and long-term martial artist (who gets the credits for one of the best insults I've ever heard) picked up on somet...

Power generation is one of the big mysteries. It seems that every time I get a handle on it, feel confident that I can explain what makes a...