PHIL
DOHERTY - BELOW THE BELT
PHIL
DOHERTY: Martial Arts are full of myths.
Take
the legends that swirl around old masters. This
one could kill a bird with his kiai, that one could defeat whole armies
and
that one could actually fly.
Of course those are exaggerations...a
bit like the
stories of masters...
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BEWARE
OF THE FALLOUT
PAUL
GREEN - CORE REALITY
PAUL GREEN: I
want to tell you a true story today from my own
personal life that happened 18 years ago. Generally, a lot of the
things I've
been through I keep to myself but I feel this may help someone else
down the
road so I'll tell it...
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JOHN BARRASS: Ivory
towers and soap
boxes, the two worst problems in my opinion in the martial arts world
today, Or
to put it another way politics. No matter what we do as humans in this
life
somewhere along the way our daily lives will have been influenced by
politics
and opinions of others...
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KNIVES AND WEAPONS
- ANOTHER ONE TO
DEBATE
PETER SETH -
AIKIDO EXTRAS
PETER SETH: Knives!
Horrible
things in the hands of fools! In fact it does not even have
to be
a
knife, almost anything can be employed to intimidate, terrorise, wound
and
kill. It is the individuals not the weapons they use which
must
be the
priority in addressing the present violence sweeping the country...
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NEW
YEAR RANT!
JOHN
ATKIN – NINJUTSU UNCOVERED
JOHN
ATKIN: I am normally
a happy go lucky
person with a positive view on
life, happy in the knowledge that what I do makes a difference in
people’s
lives but at the minute people are p***ing me off!
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KIAI
-
SOMETHING YOU HEAR OR SEE
 SUE
WHARTON – BLACK BELT ADVENTURE
SUE
WHARTON: Isn’t it strange how you think you know what
something
is only to
realise years later that your understanding was a little superficial?
There’s
always more layers to e Kiai is a case in point. Back in April 2009 I
wrote a post
called Power of the kiai in which I quoted a
definition of
kiai
as...
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MOTIVATION AND
LEARNING IN THE MARTIAL ARTS
DAVID
MACINTYRE -
KOBUDO
KORNER
GUEST
BLOGGER
GARY MORRIS: My
martial arts
training commenced in 1978 with karate as my chosen art. After moving
to London
from Oxford I attended a variety of different classes training in
shukokai,
wado ryu, shotokan and kyokushinkai styles. The move up North brought
me into
contact with my “true” senseis - Nisar Smiler, Dave
Macintyre and David
Macintyre...
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AS
THE CROWD ROARS...
MARTIN
CLARKE'S - SAMBO TALK
MARTIN
CLARKE: "As
the crowd
roars, cage
fighters aged 8
and 9 do battle... even after one breaks down in tears…
Police will take no action against the organisers of 'barbaric' cage
fighting
Organisers
defend event as
'perfectly legal'
Jeremy Hunt condemns the contests"
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REAsons and excuseS
CHRIS
TURNBULL'S – REALITY CHECK
CHRIS
TURNBULL: There is
an interesting but more importantly very valid thread on the Core
Concepts
forum right now entitled “Reasons vs Excuses”.
When I first saw the title I mistakenly jumped to the conclusion that
it would
be a thread about finding motivation to train and such. Turns out it
isn't at
all...
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RELECTIVE PRACTICE
STUART
RIDER –
STREET EDGE
STUART
RIDER: Those
of you
who read my blog
regularly will
know that I am currently attending university to further my experience
within
complementary therapies (check out November’s blog on the
healing
arts
for more
information on this); anyway, an important tool we use as therapists is
reflection...
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