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Gave up on the roman numerals. I was having nightmares of being back in 8th grade. AUUGHHH!!!! So, how do you write a fight…

Roman Numerals. My first big mistake with this series! I remember just after getting my second degree black belt, reading a sci-fi novel where…

Modern martial arts. There’s been a ton of them, like combat-o, who made the mistake of bragging they were unbeatable. Then they went into…

I better wind this series up soon, or I’m going to have to try to remember what C and M are in Roman Numerals!…

Yesterday, we covered Okinawan Karate. Japanese Karate to a certain extent was derived from the first few years of Funakoshi’s students, who transformed it…

Okinawa Okinawa is the birthplace of Karate. There are at several major styles of Karate that arose in Okinawan. The histories differ on whether…

Okay, we’ve covered western fighting arts in the first two installments, and then we covered the history of Asian arts yesterday up to its…

I’d like to recap some of what we learned yesterday. Unarmed fighting techniques fall into three categories – Atemi-Waza (percussive strikes and kicks), Nage-Waza…

Recently, a discussion on a writer’s group I’m part of had a link to an article on fighting for writers. The article was somewhat…

A few years ago, someone gave my wife a Barnes & Nobles E Reader, the Nook. The nook was a good idea, but the…