Month: April 2022

I recently watched a documentary by the Aikido Ka, and movie star, Steve Segal. One who was most certainly a highly skilled exponent of his Art back in the day, especially so with him being one of the first Gaijin to open a Dojo in Japan. Anyway, when asked if he had any advice for Martial Artists out there, this was his reply. “You won’t get very far by training under 50 different teachers. So just seek out one good teacher who has a deep understanding of their Art and follow them.” One can naturally have a few excellent differing Sensei along the way for sure. But I fully understand the sentiments that are being expressed here. Especially so with the modern Martial Arts phenomenon of trying to obtain greater knowledge by training under a different teacher each weekend. An […]

Within my soon to be released work “Studying Karate the Okinawan Way” I have added many referenced quotes and words of guidance from Karate Sensei of both past and present. We can either look deeper into the sentiments being expressed by these Sensei to help us improve our understanding of Karate. Or we can just disregard their words altogether. The choice really is our very own. What is surprising though is how many Karate Ka take the later approach because it is easier, at times thinking that they know better. If there was known to be treasure on an island, would you search and dig all over the island for this randomly. With little hope of ever discovering it.  Or would you prefer to have a map guiding you to the whereabouts of the treasure? Self-discovery is of course a […]