A fine picture of just a few of the many fellow students whose friendship and mutual support I will always cherish. This was taken before our promotion test, so this is the last picture of those belts. By evening...

Bruce Lee said "Boards don't hit back" -- which made for a great movie line, but it ain't quite so: Newton's laws assure us that boards hit us back with a force equal to how hard we hit them....

A certain amount of testing is just figuring out what you can make yourself do when you obviously can't do anything more. To highten the tension, and thereby make everything more difficult, every test is different and the...

Here are we all, another stripe to our names, some with one, some with two, and still others with three, but none of us anywhere even remotely close to the masters that tested us.

In the beginning, one can reasonably presume that the martial arts were intended as a means to train for martial purposes, aka, battle, but today, such a position is generally not founded. This is not a "bad thing". The role the...