Insights and Reflections

Image via Wikipedia “Learn from the experienced, not from the learned” – Anonymous Since the nineteenth century, streets have been...

How do we teach children to be efficient students of realistic self-protection and martial arts ? It’s a tough question and if training...

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail”. Abraham Maslow , 1966 ...

"Do not suspend necessary scepticism because of the righteousness of the cause." - Steven Novella “ The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe...

"All art is useless" – Oscar Wilde If you are involved long enough in martial arts you will inevitably arrive at the game of semantics...

“People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.” -        Walter Savage Landor Staying...

“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...

Martial Arts Scepticism: Taking it on the Chin and Listening to Fools We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue,...

“Follow not in the footsteps of the masters, but rather seek what they sought” - Basho “One of the most devastating arts to come out of...