I am not known for my sense of proportion when it comes to the Art I serve. OF COURSE everyone should train. OF COURSE it's more important than jobs or other distractions (I make an exception for … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
Artists and Slugs. Typing too.
I am typing this very slowly, without looking at the keyboard (much). This may seem trivial to those of you that learned to touch-type young, but I have twenty years of bad habits to overcome: five … [Read more...]
Affordable Rapier manual download
The rights to my first two books just reverted to me (thanks Greg and the lawyers!) and I am in the process of making them available at a fair price (not the hundreds of dollars that second-hand … [Read more...]
Complexity
I don’t believe in innate talent. I’ve never seen it in a student, and I have noticed no correlation between early successes in training and long-term achievement. But you can draw a linear … [Read more...]
In the beginning was the (s)word, part 8
This is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. And frankly, while the course itself may be concluded, it is not even the end of the beginning. But the last class of the current beginners’ … [Read more...]
I Am Weak
I am weak. So I study strength. In martial arts, strength has little to do with the usual measures of muscular performance, and everything to do with grounding, structure, power generation and joint … [Read more...]
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