Meditations: a martial art teacher’s thoughts.
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March 2013
It seems like we keep getting busier and busier! There are no more slow times of the year. Here are the things that I want to talk to you about this month. Break-A-Thon to benefit St. Jude School Demo Extra Practice St. Louis Tournament Equipment Extra Practice There’s always more, but I’m out of time.…
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Midwest World Kuk Sool Won Tournament
Every year, we try to get to one Kuk Sool tournament as a school. That tournament is coming up at the end of April. Midwest Tournament April 27, 2013 University of Missouri St. Louis, MO Now, if you’ve never been to a Kuk Sool tournament, you need to cleanse your imagination of what you’ve seen…
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St. Jude Break-A-Thon
I recently received this email from Kyo Sa Nim Mike Yates in Pekin, IL. KSN Ken, PKJN Ben Mitchell has asked me to host this year’s St. Jude Break-A-Thon and we would love to have all the mid-west schools be a part of this event. This year it will be on April 13, 2013 in Pekin, IL. Doors…
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T-Shirts
Found a really snazzy little project on Facebook today. I decided that we’re going to do it. First, take a look at these links: How to Stencil with Bleach Book Nerd Striped T-Shirt How to Bleach Your Clothes Get the idea? There are several ways that we could do this. We could all start with…
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Fasting Update
I won’t say that a two-day fast was super easy, but it was MUCH easier than I thought it would be. So much so that I seriously considered going longer. Day one, I was hungry in the afternoon and evening. Day two, I was almost not hungry at all. Once in the afternoon and once…
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Time to Experiment
More than three weeks of eating clean and no weight lost. I am happy that my body composition appears to have changed. The casual observer (which I hope you all are) would not notice, but it seems to me that my subcutaneous fat (below the skin) is increasing and the abdominal fat is decreasing. This…
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Americanized
Have you ever hear someone use the word “Americanized” as an insult? Maybe not directly, but in an insulting way? I have, and it’s getting harder for me to keep quiet about it when it happens. Here’s why. When someone laments the “Americanization” of something, they are speaking from a culturally conservative point of view.…
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Bulletproof Coffee – Updated
Bulletproof Coffee…have your heard of this? I heard about it listening to The Fat Burning Man Show, a paleo podcast. He had a guest on that is into bio-hacking, or getting the most that we can from our bodies. Evidently, this guy made a bundle of cash when he was only 26 and spent a…
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Back to Paleo
So, last week I returned to being serious about my Paleo lifestyle. I eased up over the holidays. Actually, from the end of summer on through the end of the year, I was fairly sloppy with my diet. Not eating hamburgers and swilling coke, but having pizza multiple times per week and not being too…
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Fifty Shades of Goals
Nothing titillating here. Just the title. Sorry. This time of year, I usually write something about goal setting, Black Belt Mind, etc. This year though I wanted to do something completely different. I want to be very open and honest and share some of my goals with you. As an exercise, I want to share…
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