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2009
20
Jul
Lack of time has kept me from updating here for far longer than I would have liked, but for most of the last year while I’ve been out of the country, I’ve been a lot better about keeping up my training than last time. I have often sung the praises of Andre Martin, and it [...]
2007
26
Sep
Last time I returned to England, I lived for a short time in unfamiliar territory, and spent a week auditioning local martial arts. After some deliberation, I happily settled on Wing Chun, but had no sooner started than Customs forced me to leave England. This time around, I’ve been lucky enough to be reunited with [...]
2007
19
Aug
Long time readers might remember that, after almost 20 years of traveling the length and breadth of England while training in dozens of martial arts clubs and styles, I went through a martial arts mid-life crisis between 2001 and 2003. I earned my Tae Kwon-Do 1st Dan in 2001, and with the rush of success [...]
2007
17
Apr
It occurred to me recently, that as a published writer with an encyclopedic knowledge of the forms/patterns/kata of several martial arts, that there might be a market for a series of short EBooks with diagrams by Octavia to illustrate exactly how to perform that part of one’s grading. I would show the correct posture and [...]
2007
29
Mar
Last week I documented my Week of Martial Arts, where I attended a different martial arts class at my nearby Gloucester GL1 Leisure Centre every night of the week (more or less!), in order to pick one style to devote the next 6 months of study to. And the winner is (drumroll please): White Dragon [...]
