Chiron

Just heard that Joe Lewis died. He was fun.  Great mind.  Great timing. Power and speed in a nearly perfect package (and I met him well aft...

There are divisions to this. Principles are the big things.   Principles are the things (usually physics) that make other things work....

David S has been pushing me to say something nice about the "Facing Violence" video.  He directed it, and I think he does a lot of...

We used to do a drill for new members of the mental health team.  One of our best psych counselors had collected what "the voices"...

I don't think I've broken this out as its own piece before, and doubt if I have the space to go into details.  To follow along, you...

Good talks with Jake Steinmann yesterday.  About teaching students versus subjects; learning versus experimenting; why the easy things are ...

Darin Yee: People misunderstand the five animals.  All arts have all five, but they pretend to ignore some or emphasize them differently.  ...

It's not insomnia.  Because I'm not tired.  Last night it was just too hot to sleep.  Today, though drowsy in the afternoon, I don...

Last night: Red-eye flight to Boston.  Couldn't sleep on the plane, as usual. Today: Jeff picked me up at the airport, despite the del...

My legs are shot.  Have been for a while.  Very tiny broken bone in the socket of my big toe.  Broke it the first time in a match a long tim...

"I can't do that." Most of the time, people are thinking cause and not effect, or motion rather than results.  "I...

T stomped down on my knee.  Why?  It was pressed forward.  I could take his entire weight at that point at that angle.  A kick to either sid...

Eight-hour class Saturday in Elko, NV. The sign-ups so far are all women and the host, Subtle Warrior Self-Defense, LLC, specializes in WSD,...

The weirdest part, I think, is that I don't have a black eye. Irene caught a perfect head butt right on the edge of the orbital socket.....

YMAA wants to film a companion video to "Drills" in August in Boston.  In one day.  That's ambitious, there are 72 drills list...

A few years ago a friend thought it would be really cool to have a jujutsu forum open only to people he had hand-picked.  Robert want...

We do almost everything in boxes, in tight little scripts.   This type of problem is solved this way.   That type of problem ...

  I heard (again--sigh) that classical systems don't train live.  Maybe some don't.  Maybe most don't.  This is the list of the ...

Home. Good times. Relaxing. Sitting at Jett Burger, possibly my favorite diner. Trucker food with a Hawaiian influence. The girl is going to...

This is just about edges.  Maybe someday I'll be ready to write about lines. There is only so much your body can do.  But you can neve...