Lessons Learned in the World of Martial Arts
得心應手 – "What the heart wishes, the hand accomplishes"
This subject involves reality being affected by concentrated force of will & is considered pure fraud by academics. But this subject also involves a conflation…
Continue reading → ON EMPTY FORCE -or- Advanced Martial Arts & Magical Thinking vs Actual Magic
Learning concepts from foreign cultures is, admittedly, a difficult process to due to the amount of background information required to make assimilation possible. Let's look…
Continue reading → 勢/Shi: The Key Concept In The Study & Application Of Strategy
Many people are familiar with the concepts of Yin & Yang, but only just enough to know they exist. There's still a great deal of…
Continue reading → Yin Yang Theory: Examining The Basic Principles
If someone put you on the spot & demanded that you summarize yourself in only six words, would you be able to do it? All…
Recently, while perusing Twitter, I happened upon a retweet from the illustrious Ed Latimore regarding Offensive Strategy. Here's the tweet in question: Now, I'm a…
第一公式/Di Yi Gongshi - First Formula 推托帶領, 搬扣劈進 穿閃截攔, 粘黏連隨 Push, Lift, Carry, Lead, Move, Capture, Chop, Enter Penetrate, Dodge, Intercept, Block Stick, Adhere, Link,…
There is a disease in the World of Martial Arts. It runs rampant among both young & old, completely unchecked, seemingly unstoppable. It infects practitioners…
Continue reading → “Bruceism”: Secret Scourge of the World of Martial Arts
I first heard of the concept of "Eating Bitterness" when I started studying Yin Style Baguazhang. The group had been training for a couple of…
As much as it pains me to do this, I have to admit defeat. There's an insurmountable obstacle in my way, & it's clearly impossible…
On July 5th, 2017 I was fired for the third time in my working life. Unlike the previous firings, which both shocked & outraged me,…
