Insights and Reflections

Image by Pioneer Library System via Flickr Preface Before I begin this article let me get a few things straight about its content. I...

Today it is hard to go to a self defence seminar without hearing about the importance of being aware. Yet when we actually get to the...

Despite there being documented research on the social phenomena we know as “The Bystander Effect ” by psychologists John M. Darley and...

Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia I write this now as the proverbial and literal dust has completely settled over the England...

“ Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” - T.S. Eliot In 1992 the prosecutor for the trial that saw former undisputed heavyweight...

Image via Wikipedia “You absolute whore!” were experienced martial arts champion, self-defence expert and fitness instructor Floyd...

Image via Wikipedia Ockham’s razor is a centuries old principle that argues for simplicity, reductionism and minimalism. Many scientists...

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the...

Image via Wikipedia I guess it is little coincidence that the dramatic rise in interest in martial arts and its subsequent...

Notepad (software) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Recently I was sorting through old storage boxes and found a few pages from an A4 notepad....

The Commonwealth Games just whets my appetite in the same way a bookshop or library does. I see a wide range of physical pursuits that...

Small scream (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) " Kiai is often thought of as merely being a shout, but this is not correct. Kiai is the...

Cross training in martial arts is nothing new. However, since the popularity of the eclectic martial arts movie star Bruce Lee and the...

Statistics seem to consecutively show that women are and always have been less likely to be victims of violence than men. And yet surveys...

As is often the case with martial arts , there is a lot of misinformation, disinformation, ambiguity and outright confusion concerning...

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose” ? Leonardo da Vinci “I need to work on my fitness ” is a common phrase I hear from a...

The anxiety a child faces when entering a secondary school for the first time is well known. Books upon books have been written...

Halloween is not the easiest of events to connect to self-protection or the martial arts. This is despite some wonderful efforts by...

“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.” - Henry Kissinger I remember, back in the 1980s, when...

A while back I put my thoughts down on what I considered to be the most beneficial way to approach physical training . The piece was...