(I’ve been posting a lot of my reviews lately at Metamora Martial Arts, so if you’re wondering why you haven’t seen any here lately, that’s why.) Look. I’ve never been in a fight. Don’t want to. That’s why I’m glad there are people like Rory Miller. A 30-year veteran of the martial arts and corrections… Continue reading Review: Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller
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Review: Clean Concepts in Kane & Wilder’s Dirty Ground
Martial arts instructors teach some pretty brutal moves. Some show the moves without providing much context. “This is the person’s attack. This is your defense. Practice it,” they say. But self-defense is much more nuanced than that. Luckily for me, I train under instructors who challenge my assumptions about what I would do in a… Continue reading Review: Clean Concepts in Kane & Wilder’s Dirty Ground
Taekwondo Grappling Techniques: An Eye-Opening Read
Over the past couple months, and for the past several summers, I have been working with my karate instructor either individually or in small groups to decode some of our karate forms in order to find their hidden applications. Our katas, he says, are our libraries of knowledge. Only recently has it dawned on me… Continue reading Taekwondo Grappling Techniques: An Eye-Opening Read
Andrew Keen on Social Media: “What We Once Saw as a Prison Is Now Considered a Playground”
This past week, I read an advance e-book version of Andrew Keen’s new title, “Digital Vertigo: How Today’s Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us,” and wanted to share what I believed were important points from the book. Keen, in a much more thorough way than I do here, explains that social media… Continue reading Andrew Keen on Social Media: “What We Once Saw as a Prison Is Now Considered a Playground”
Review: Yang Tai Chi for Beginners DVD by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming
Any martial artist interested in the Chinese martial arts should get their hands on Yang Tai Chi for Beginners. Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming takes the viewer through each step of the tai chi chuan form for Yang style. Each step is clearly labeled with English, Chinese, and the Chinese ideograms. At each new movement, he explains… Continue reading Review: Yang Tai Chi for Beginners DVD by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming