FINDING THE ‘WAY’

by | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized

PART 4 IN A CONTINUING SERIES I was a partially blind teenager. That is, I had come to the awareness that I had little, conscious spiritual sight. Yet, by contrast, I somehow intuited that we are all born with the light inside us. It just didn’t lie near enough at my...

CHRONICLES OF THE DOKA

by | Feb 4, 2014 | Uncategorized

PART 3 IN A CONTINUING SERIES Welcome To My Dojo I have learned from students as many lessons as I have passed along. I owe gratitude to them for the richness, substance and sustainability of my life. We sensei of the world are just big students in teacher’s garb,...

CHRONICLES OF THE DOKA

by | Jan 18, 2014 | Uncategorized

PART 2 IN A CONTINUING SERIES I taught four hundred and twenty classes over an eighty-four day period beginning January 13, 1999. During that time, I engaged slightly over three hundred students a week. Seventy-five percent of the nation’s professional martial arts’...

by | Jan 5, 2014 | Uncategorized

CHRONICLES OF THE  DOKA       Eighty-Four Days In The Teaching Life Of An American Shifu In this blog I want to draw your attention to the practice of an integrated, holistic martial system by giving readers an intimate glimpse into a martial sensei’s life;...

by | Jul 23, 2013 | Uncategorized

ALL CHOKED UP By Christopher J. Goedecke The point of these blogs is to present the many facets of training that compose the great martial mosaic. In our dojo, conversations can be as broad as the dimensions of physical training. Because there are many conceptual...