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2008
6
Feb
As soon as Octavia and I moved out of our hotel in Pasay City last month, I began looking in earnest for a Pekiti-Tirsia Kali instructor. I was very lucky that a friend-of-a-friend used to be involved in the URCC (more or less the Filipino UFC), and that he very kindly introduced me to [...]
2007
23
Oct
It took me a couple of days to recover from the busyness of the earlier part of this week, so this blog is currently operating in a bit of a timewarp while I post articles that would otherwise have gone up a few days ago. I hope it doesn’t irritate you too much [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
2007
31
Mar
You might define lifestyle as encompassing all the things that you spend your time engaged in, that is whatever it is that you do regularly defines your particular lifestyle. If you take a minute to think about some of those things, and how you feel when you’re doing them, that is what I’m calling [...]
