Fox or rabbit, which are you?

CHRONICLES OF THE DOKA (#12 in a continuing series of 84 days in the teaching life of an American sensei)         “I respect where student’s stand in time and space with me. If I didn’t, how could I possibly meet them at that juncture where real change is possible? I...

                            THE ‘KI’ TO KETTLEBELL PRESSING POWER                              Utilize internal energy to lift heavier weights,                       do more reps, recover quicker and get better results...

HAYASHI SHIFU ON ‘KATA AND BUNKAI’

                (Early 1970’s, Bank Street Dojo, photo of Shifu Goedecke) Further Thoughts on Kata and Bunkai Chris Goedecke, 2014 (Shifu Hayashi adds to Professor Robert Arnold’s earlier post): In the general is concealed the specific. In the specific is...

FINDING THE ‘WAY’

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...