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The more dangerous you become, the less dangerous you have to be

The Men Who Tread on The Tigers Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi)

One of my favorite flims, a great example of Bushido and using all one’s tools, not just fighting. Great examples of knowing when to use timing, power, when to conserve and follow The Way.

I have to say i was shocked to see my name go up on the test list last month, only a year after recieving my shodan, but my senseis believed in me and i am proud to say that yesterday i was promoted to nidan in uechi-ryu karate. It was the smallest and most intense test i’ve been part of, only 2 of us so there was no time to rest but we powered through. I never thought i’d make it this far before life got in the way, but this is the biggest accomplishment i’ve made in my 21 years. During the post-test comments, my sensei said that our test looked no different from the ones he’s seen in Okinawa, and that he was so happy to see the next generation preserving the authenticity of our style. It was literally the best compliment i’ve ever recieved. Ever. I’m so pumped i don’t even care that i bruised the crap out of my foot while sparring

Edit: some people have been asking, i'm the short one hehe

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To all the upper belts put themselves in worse positions let the lower belts try out moves.

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What Did You Learn In Martial Arts Class Today?

“Character” -

Throughout the cycles we go through in our lives and our training, we can polish and refine our character: “who we are”, along with our skills. As we train and develop our physical and mental selves, over time this constant refining and balancing can help us to grow as a person and refine our character, regardless of how we grew up. What we’ve been through in life maybe defines, “how we are” but not “who we are”. It can be difficult, painful and a process of making mistake after mistake, but we can change and learn, if we eventually let go enough to “listen”.

When we have the seed planted in our “idea”, our “heart”, we train, we work on it, we can now understand it, we work on it more, refining body and mind together until it becomes habit, this habit becomes our characteristic, which can be seen in our expression of ourselves. We then come back to that “idea” and we realize that we only scratched the surface and it can go much deeper, as we can now see more than before.

We repeat this process over and over through training, thus refining our physical skills, our mental skills, which combined help us to find a balance of refining our Character, helping us to grow and learn. We don’t need to try to get rid of that that little bit of craziness and the quirky parts that makes us the unique individual’s we are. We can never be perfect, too good, or too bad, as we experience life, we experience many things, but to look at both sides and choose to walk the middle road is most difficult, to be neutral. We are trying to find our natural balance, as we can always work to be better than we were yesterday.

Through training we can not only develop our skills, our minds, and our behavior, but we can refine our Character - when the realization goes beyond the surface, beyond the superficial driven by outside desires and ego. When the realization touches the soul, touches our hearts in a way, that we want to grow and change, to better ourselves, this helps us to grow so that each cycle when we look at the “idea” again, we keep seeing deeper and deeper into our development. The refinement of body, mind and Character or “Spirit” is The Tao of Martial Arts, The Way…

Train Well and Train Safe

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A True Warrior, Like Tea, Shows his Strength in Hot Water

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Monday has me feeling like….

#what kids classes are actually like #except really

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Kickboxer vs capoeira

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Finally a fight scene where both stylist look capable!

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And both stylists are actually practicing their style as opposed to some variant on kick boxing.

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When you see someone training outside:

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How to train your kung fu leg?

The best feiyue shoes on: http://www.icnbuys.com/feiyue-shoes .

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Just going to leave this here

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My instructor actually sent this to the assistant instructor group chat last night

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omg hahahahahahahahaha

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Ninja escape to a nice Yoko-tomoe-nage

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Terry Crews of Brooklyn 99 gives the best advice on physical fitness.

Seriously, his Reddit AMA is the most genuinely upbeat, positive actor interview ever. Another great bit:

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To be honest, this was the healthiest advice for getting into working out I’ve ever read, and it really was the inspiration for me to start running and going to the gym. No judgement, no “you need to be doing this” mess. Just a simple “do what you can. and feel comfortable”