Meditations: a martial art teacher’s thoughts.
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Ten Exercises that will Make Taking Martial Art Classes More Fun and Less Scary
Most people like the idea of being a martial artist. It sounds cool, and honestly it is cool. What we don’t like is getting started and actually doing the work necessary to become a martial artist. Beginning is the hardest part. Most of us remember gym classes from high school where everyone seemed to know…
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Finding Kuk Sool Won
I’ve been practicing Kuk Sool for about fifteen years or so now. From the time I was a child I had always wanted to learn “karate”. I lived outside of town and we usually only had one car, which my dad took to work. He was always tired when he got home and leaving to…
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Traditional Martial Art as Compared to Modern (Mixed) Martial Art
I’ve talked in the past about how our area of the state and country has produced a lot of great “fighters”. If those guys were training today, you can bet that they would be doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) and wrestling in addition to kickboxing and Karate. All of these “Combat Sports” are considered “realistic” martial arts.…
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Embrace the Suck
When I was in second grade, we moved to a new school district. Nobody in my class knew me. The teacher didn’t know me. We might even have had a student teacher. I don’t remember. One day we were doing science, a rare treat in this county school. I was good at science. I read…
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Elimination Diet
My diet didn’t survive a weekend of traveling. For one thing, my wife didn’t cook like she usually does before we travel. She’s a bit…frugal, and usually doesn’t like spending money to eat out if she doesn’t have to. I had counted on that quality of hers, but this time she did almost no cooking…
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Skill versus Exercise
One of the things that I really like about martial art training is that is doesn’t always seem like exercise. It’s interesting and challenging, but fun at the same time. I hated gym class in school because there was always a (seemingly) endless list of exercises to do, push-ups, sit-ups, etc. with no real payoff.…
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One of many…
One of the things that sets Kuk Sool and all of the WKSA schools apart from other martial arts and associations is that every school owner has an instructor to whom he or she is accountable. Ultimately, our founder is the authority. We all answer to, and have access to, him. That’s another thing that…
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Fighting
Lots of martial artists, especially around East Central Indiana are often referred to as “Fighters”. It is usually used as a term of respect. That said, despite my rough looks, there aren’t many who know me that would call me a Fighter. I’ve always done everything I could to avoid fighting, whether physical, verbal, or…
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Recent article in Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304096104579238513841073856
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Turning Nutrition Upside Down
It struck me recently that I’ve come to view nutrition completely different from most people, even people who think along the same lines as me. When most people think of starting to eat organically they think of vegetables, salads, and produce in general. I used to as well. Now, though, I’m becoming increasingly convinced the starting…
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