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(SEP 2025)

Sparring Isn’t Fighting. It’s Learning: Train Smart – Not Just Hard. image

Sparring Isn’t Fighting. It’s Learning: Train Smart – Not Just Hard.

SEP 30, 2025

Remember Why You Started: Karate That Protects – Not Modern Performance. image

Remember Why You Started: Karate That Protects – Not Modern Performance.

SEP 29, 2025

From Stances to Movement – Good Karate Isn’t Static. image

From Stances to Movement – Good Karate Isn’t Static.

SEP 28, 2025

Nukite: From Misunderstood Strike to Practical Application. image

Nukite: From Misunderstood Strike to Practical Application.

SEP 25, 2025

101 Techniques, No Time to Think – Too Many Names, Not Enough Application. image

101 Techniques, No Time to Think – Too Many Names, Not Enough Application.

SEP 24, 2025

Back to the Future: Still Teaching Step-Kumite? Why? image

Back to the Future: Still Teaching Step-Kumite? Why?

SEP 22, 2025

How Many Kata Do You Really Need? One Kata, Three Years – Still Enough Today? image

How Many Kata Do You Really Need? One Kata, Three Years – Still Enough Today?

SEP 20, 2025

Understanding Karate’s True Purpose: Real Violence, Real Purpose and Why Kata Matters. image

Understanding Karate’s True Purpose: Real Violence, Real Purpose and Why Kata Matters.

SEP 19, 2025

Karate, Context, and the Critics Who Miss the Point. image

Karate, Context, and the Critics Who Miss the Point.

SEP 18, 2025

Black Belts for Sale: What Happened to Earning It? image

Black Belts for Sale: What Happened to Earning It?

SEP 17, 2025

No Meaning? The Pinan Kata – A Complete Fighting System, Not Children’s Play. image

No Meaning? The Pinan Kata – A Complete Fighting System, Not Children’s Play.

SEP 16, 2025

Thinking Like the Creators: Kata as Living Time Capsules – Perspective in Practice. image

Thinking Like the Creators: Kata as Living Time Capsules – Perspective in Practice.

SEP 15, 2025

Why We Need to Define Self-Defense. Tradition vs. Reality. image

Why We Need to Define Self-Defense. Tradition vs. Reality.

SEP 12, 2025

Shaking the Tree: Wake Up to What You’re Really Practicing and Teaching. image

Shaking the Tree: Wake Up to What You’re Really Practicing and Teaching.

SEP 11, 2025

Was Bruce Lee Right? Why Knowledge Alone Isn’t Enough. image

Was Bruce Lee Right? Why Knowledge Alone Isn’t Enough.

SEP 09, 2025

Am I Getting Angry at an Empty Boat? Zen, Karate, and Self-Defense. image

Am I Getting Angry at an Empty Boat? Zen, Karate, and Self-Defense.

SEP 08, 2025

Come on Guys, Karate Deserves Better Than Choreography. image

Come on Guys, Karate Deserves Better Than Choreography.

SEP 07, 2025

Building on Fundamentals: Why Withholding Techniques Until Black Belt Fails Students. image

Building on Fundamentals: Why Withholding Techniques Until Black Belt Fails Students.

SEP 06, 2025

Wait – You Think Judo and Jujitsu Are the Only Arts with Grappling? image

Wait – You Think Judo and Jujitsu Are the Only Arts with Grappling?

SEP 05, 2025

The Discipline of Repetition: The Basics Are Not Basic. image

The Discipline of Repetition: The Basics Are Not Basic.

SEP 04, 2025

Karate Can Show the Way, but Only You Can Walk the Path. image

Karate Can Show the Way, but Only You Can Walk the Path.

SEP 02, 2025

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