In my previous post, I began with what I thought to be a funny opening and poking fun at the overly offended people in our time. I am sure this was insensitive in the eyes of some people, but allow me to explain. I play around a lot. My sense of humor is quite wide,…
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Why I Stopped Being Afraid of Guns
There is a lot of fear-mongering going on right now, and I want to go ahead and share with you just a bit on my change in stance regarding firearms. I was raised to be afraid of guns. There are a lot of reasons for this. People only know what they know and experience. My…
Musashi’s Dokkodo (The Way of Walking Alone) A New Book From Lawrence Kane and Kris Wilder
Over this past summer, right after I began working fervently on a new book which was to be titled Prelude to a Fight, and is currently undergoing a name change (it needs to be just right…), an opportunity to be a part of a very interesting project came up. Lawrence Kane and Kris Wilder, two people…
What is the best way to stop bullies?
Questions kept popping up after my video on bullying: Why do the anti-bullying programs seem to be ineffective, and sometimes even exacerbate the problem? Is there a good way to stop bullies? There is a simple reason, at least in my opinion, of why so many of the anti-bullying programs fail: these programs do not…
The Free Course is almost here!
I have long promised a free online self-defense course, and the wait is almost over. The biggest issue was in finding the right platform, and once that was solved, the work began. After a lot of back and forth on the issues of what should be covered and what could be left out, I have…
The Misunderstood ‘Stance’
Stances, at least from my point of view, are grossly misunderstood in traditional martial arts around the world. In this article I am going to give my view on the topic. Like so many other aspects of the Asian martial arts, when they arrived in Western Countries, the first thing we did was misinterpret everything….
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