Martial Arts Training is a Practice in Balance
Training became a practice in balance, as I learned not just the techniques of martial arts but also how to live.
Martial arts training tests...
LtCol George Goodson and A Burial At Sea
LtCol George Goodson, USMC (Ret) ~ In my 76th year, the events of my life appear to me, from time to time, as a...
Friends of Kenshiro Abbe Sensei?
Henry Ellis Aikido website and its contributors are either direct or indirect students of Kenshiro Abbe Sensei. Students, who would never refer to themselves...
An Obscene Bid to Smear our Returning Veterans
The Myth of our Returning Veterans and Violent Crime:
“A long-standing goal of the left, recently invigorated, has been to drive a wedge between our...
Martial Arts as a Topic in Sculpture and Painting
The human figure in motion offered extraordinary possibilities and inspiration to artists throughout centuries. By the human body performing certain martial arts movements, it...
Reality Based: Is It A New Concept (2005)
For those of you who are traditionalist you may tend to discriminate against Reality Based martial arts, especially against the work of Jim Wagner...
Accepting Funakoshi’s Challenge
My favorite Gichin Funakoshi quote is: “Everything you encounter is an aspect of karate: find the marvelous truth there.”
By Thomas A. Newnam ~ Did...
Seeking Improvement in Life and Martial Arts
Last night in our advanced class I told a story about Coach John Wooden. John Wooden was voted the greatest coach in the history...
Black Belt Realities
It is a common misconception that having a black belt is paramount to being a self-defense expert. Unfortunately some Black Belts also believe this....
Real Warrior Wisdom
In the Real Warrior Wisdom section of USAdojo.com you will find fantastic articles by men and women who continually make a difference in the...
The Over Sexualization of Martial Arts
My dojo hosts many seminars...
Yet I distinctly remember one of my first...
I showed up and as I joined the mat one of my fellow...
Twenty-First Century Martial Arts
I’m a firm believer of growth and evolution. I’m not talking about the Darwinian concept of evolution but the evolution of growth and change...
Knowledge, Faith, Benevolence, Courage and Severity
In Tae Kwon Do, there are five tenets. These are guiding principles. They are Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance, Self-Control and Indomitable Spirit. In my school...
Kumite: A Learning Experience
From Time to time, BLACK BELT learns of unusual events or occurrences in the martial arts; events that-either because of their nature or because...
Haiku for Miyamoto Musashi
Dedicated to the Book of Five Rings
one hundred haiku
Musashi your voice is mine
I am your wisdom
In this brief volume I have created a series of...
Discipline in Martial Arts and in Life
As a parent, you cannot help but reflect upon the nature of discipline. There is one concept of discipline, entirely wrong-headed, that focuses on...
