by rmgadmin | May 10, 2018 | blog
Some Native American tribes consider the appearance of wilderness creatures at certain points in one’s life a ‘spiritual event,’ portending something of the immediate future of the observer(s). So it was a curious moment when on the eve of a promotional ceremony, a...
by rmgadmin | Jan 2, 2018 | blog
The material world that we are all so familiar seeing and touching is not all that comprises our reality. We know this to be true if we just think of the inner world of our own minds; our thoughts, desires, imaginations, memories, and intentions. We can’t ‘see’ our...
by rmgadmin | Nov 3, 2017 | blog
DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND Recently, an isshinryu practitioner reached out to me to let me know he was reading my latest book, Rebel Isshinryu, and to share a thread from an isshinryu Facebook forum discussing my work. With all due respect to the many years of martial...
by rmgadmin | Jul 17, 2017 | blog
CHRONICLES OF THE DOKA #37 in a continuing series (84 days in the teaching life of an American sensei in 1999) Sunday, January 16, (continued) Sunday, January 16 I drill the two teenage boys, Frankie and Chris, on slip-stepping and diagonal evasions. I tell...
