Chiron

The Dream is damned and Dreamer too if Dreaming's all that Dreamers do.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

New Ground

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Kasey made the cover of Police Magazine. He posted one of the interior pictures on FB with this caption: " Here is the April 2015 issu...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015

Packs

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Just...wow. Off a plane, home for 26 hours, on the road, home for twelve hours and on a plane, then home for less than nine and on a plane a...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

On Power

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Maija asked the right question. Always best to define your terms. I think "strong" and 'weak" are false sorts, and forgiv...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Just a Few Thoughts

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It looks like we might be on business stuff for a bit. And there will be some teaching stuff, too. The blog is my place for thinking out lo...
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Monday, March 09, 2015

More Business Stuff

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The last post hit some people a little hard. Got some conversations going in my e-mail and on facebook. So a little more thinking out loud h...
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Monday, March 02, 2015

The Advertising Problem

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"I wasn't sure I should come," the student confided, "I heard stories and thought it would be really scary. But it's ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Depth of Game

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"How deep is your game?" has been coming up a lot, lately. Erik Kondo, a friend and one of the CRGI team wrote a draft article ab...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Solo Skills

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Once upon a time, I'd elected to go into a cell and talk down an extremely agitated inmate, and it wasn't working. One of the big ke...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Hot Mess

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Back from a no-internet writing retreat on the Oregon Coast. Did over 5000 words in a single day on the "How to Teach" manuscript ...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Justified, Justifiable, Prudent and Smart

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Wrote this a couple of weeks ago and then got asked by David at YMAA to avoid mentioning the video Scaling Force . They were doing some kind...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

War Stories in Teaching

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Going back to Jeff's Rules: Everything you teach must have a tactical purpose. Corollary to that, the way you teach must have a purpos...
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Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Drop Step

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Written a couple of posts recently, but haven't been happy with them. Might be able to get them in reader-worthy shape eventually. One...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Lots of False, Lots of True

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Writing on something. This one is hard. Probably broader and more complex than anything else I've tackled. Teaching and learning for eme...
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Sunday, November 09, 2014

Wuff!

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And, thus, the seminar in the Netherlands ends. Sweet. Lots of fun and good people and well received, but I am tired down to the bone. Early...
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Saturday, November 01, 2014

Quick Note From Kortrijk

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In the last thirty days, all but four have been spent either teaching or on a plane. There will probably be a free day or two in Greece, but...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Advanced Class

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Just finished the second day of a three-day course for the training unit of a European city. After dinner, over coffee, the boss asked me, ...
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Friday, October 24, 2014

Expanding Lists

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Normally, my default is to simplify. To cut stuff out. By definition, efficiency means less wasted motion. The best athlete in any field mov...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Kill the Sensei

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Generally, martial arts are taught very poorly. For the so-called "traditional" Japanese and Okinawan arts, they way they are taug...
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Monday, October 20, 2014

What If...

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Minnesota was a big experience with a lot of learning. I'll debrief it when the lessons have had some time to settle. In the meantime,...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Next Project

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The writing project for the end of the year will begin in November. It won't be a novel, but I'll do it as part of the NaNoWriMo cha...
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I noticed a scar on my shoulder last night. A 'vee' about an inch on a side. I don't remember how I got it.
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