Meditations: a martial art teacher’s thoughts.
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Change the World? Change yourself.
The desire to change the world seems to be a defining characteristic of modern martial art teachers. We aren’t in the business of “training fighters” anymore. Our business is the health and wellness of the human system. In other words, we don’t limit our concern to the health and wellness of our students, but of…
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Lessons Learned from a Failed Test
Maybe this is bad business. I’m a huge believer in transparency though, and there are lessons here. As difficult at this is to admit to my students and readers, I failed my last Blackbelt Test. It’s happened before. Actually, nearly every time I test with my instructor, Pyung Kwan Jang Nim (PKJN) Ben Mitchell, I…
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Religious Freedom
1. As a member of the Kuk Sool Won, I pledge to obey the rules of the association and to conduct myself in accordance with the true spirit of martial arts. 나는 국술원 회원으로서 회칙을 준수하며 무사도 정신을 발휘할 것을 맹세 한다. 2. I pledge to be loyal to my country and to promote the…
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Continuing Education Program
First Weekend in March Regular students at the school will know that I recently returned from my annual trip to the Houston, Texas area. Every year Kuk Sa Nim (our Grandmaster) invites all the school owners in the World Kuk Sool Association™ (WKSA) to the Headquarters school for a long weekend of training. This Continuing…
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Evolution
Five Hundred Facebook followers. I waited for a long time to get to that goal. I wrote a lot of posts hoping to add one or two more “likes”. It worked. The likes kept piling up, slowly but surely. Finally, when I was away at CEP (WKSA’s Continuing Education Program), it happened. I was at 499…
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Midwest Tournament Plans from Shiljang Nim Krystal
I want to update everyone on our plans for the weekend of the Midwest Tournament in St. Louis, April 24th through the 26th. Jido Kwang Jang Nim Jack Harvey, who runs Kuk Sool Won of St. Louis with his wife, Joo Im Kwang Jang Nim Lee Harvey, usually arranges a really good rate for us at…
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From the Archives: Dojang Protocol
I find myself at the end of my list of ideas for weekly blogs. Please drop me a line if there is something that you would like me to write about. In the mean-time, here is another article from the deep past (relatively speaking). Published in June of 2007 when Kuk Sool Won™ of Muncie was…
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Hidden Secrets of Kuk Sool Won™
The idea of “secret techniques” in the martial arts has always fascinated people. Verbal tradition, urban legend, movies, and television have all perpetuated the idea that there are secrets that allow martial artists to achieve near super-human powers with the right training and practice. Like all legends, there must be some kernel of truth to…
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Brilliant Idea
Please watch as Jane McGonigal shares secrets of the universe with you. She’s lifting the curtain and giving you some of the science behind the magic of Kuk Sool training as seen through the lens of her experience and brilliance. [ted id=1501]
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Decide When to Be Patient, and When Not to Be
Most of the lessons that we teach in the dojang have applications outside the martial art school. It works the other way around too. This article is about something I learned about myself a long time ago when I was learning to fly airplanes and how it applies to martial art training. When you begin…
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