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(MAY 2025)

Hard Conditioning Has Its Place: Self-Protection Isn’t a Contest – It’s Not Just About Taking the Hit. image

Hard Conditioning Has Its Place: Self-Protection Isn’t a Contest – It’s Not Just About Taking the Hit.

MAY 30, 2025

Restraint Is a Technique Too: Training to Fight, Learning Not To. image

Restraint Is a Technique Too: Training to Fight, Learning Not To.

MAY 29, 2025

Ego Always Wants the Fight – Wisdom Knows When to Walk Away. image

Ego Always Wants the Fight – Wisdom Knows When to Walk Away.

MAY 28, 2025

One Path Known, One Path New: Which Path Would Your Teacher Choose Today? image

One Path Known, One Path New: Which Path Would Your Teacher Choose Today?

MAY 27, 2025

Karate Then and Now: What Are We Really Studying? image

Karate Then and Now: What Are We Really Studying?

MAY 26, 2025

Hikite: It Was Never Meant to Power Your Punch. image

Hikite: It Was Never Meant to Power Your Punch.

MAY 23, 2025

Beyond the Patch: When Loyalty Is Tested. image

Beyond the Patch: When Loyalty Is Tested.

MAY 22, 2025

The Living Language of Kata – If We Let It Speak Its Original Rhythm. image

The Living Language of Kata – If We Let It Speak Its Original Rhythm.

MAY 21, 2025

Stripped of Illusion: Not All Who Wear the Belt Wear the Values. image

Stripped of Illusion: Not All Who Wear the Belt Wear the Values.

MAY 20, 2025

A Train Ride, Not a Showdown: Common Sense Before Combat. image

A Train Ride, Not a Showdown: Common Sense Before Combat.

MAY 19, 2025

Are You Teaching What You Understand – or Just Instructing What You Were Told? image

Are You Teaching What You Understand – or Just Instructing What You Were Told?

MAY 16, 2025

If It’s Not Real, Why Are You Teaching It? Tradition Isn’t an Excuse for Ineffective Teaching. image

If It’s Not Real, Why Are You Teaching It? Tradition Isn’t an Excuse for Ineffective Teaching.

MAY 15, 2025

Revisiting Step-Kumite: Because 'Beginners Have to Start Somewhere' Isn’t Good Enough. image

Revisiting Step-Kumite: Because 'Beginners Have to Start Somewhere' Isn’t Good Enough.

MAY 14, 2025

The Past Informs Us, But It Doesn’t Define Us – What Matters Is What You Can Do with It. image

The Past Informs Us, But It Doesn’t Define Us – What Matters Is What You Can Do with It.

MAY 13, 2025

The Lost Lessons of Kata: Is it Time to Move Beyond the Myths? image

The Lost Lessons of Kata: Is it Time to Move Beyond the Myths?

MAY 12, 2025

Who Are You When No One’s Watching? Do You Train to Build Character? image

Who Are You When No One’s Watching? Do You Train to Build Character?

MAY 10, 2025

Stop It Dead? No. Why Block and Counter Is Not Enough. image

Stop It Dead? No. Why Block and Counter Is Not Enough.

MAY 09, 2025

Step-Kumite: Is It a Historical Misstep? image

Step-Kumite: Is It a Historical Misstep?

MAY 08, 2025

Don’t Wait to Get Hit: Karate Is Not Just Defensive. image

Don’t Wait to Get Hit: Karate Is Not Just Defensive.

MAY 07, 2025

‘That’ll Do’? No – Not Just Any Tool Will Do. image

‘That’ll Do’? No – Not Just Any Tool Will Do.

MAY 06, 2025

Kata: The Lesson That Never Ends. image

Kata: The Lesson That Never Ends.

MAY 05, 2025

You Still Recognize the Game – Karate Should Be No Different. image

You Still Recognize the Game – Karate Should Be No Different.

MAY 01, 2025

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