The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many…
Three karate fighters from Toronto, Ontario are preparing for a trip to Montreal, because Ontario won’t allow them to display their skills. Larissa Isk and Jhonattan Adames are preparing for semi-contact, and Norihiro Yoshida full-contact. All three train in Kyokushin Karate, a style founded in Japan in 1964 by Masutatsu Oyama. Kyokushin is Japanese for “the ultimate…
Today marked a new step in my journey on the Martial Way. As you know from my blog, training in Kyokushin Karate has been my focal point for this past seven months, under the tutelage of Sensei Steve Fogarasi, at Contact Kicks Dojo. I am also lucky enough to belong to a dojo that also…
As anyone in Kyokushin knows, Sosai Mas Ōyama was heavily influenced by the great swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, including going into isolation to hone his martial arts, taking a warrior quest, etc., as did Musashi before him. Sosai was noted as saying that Musashi had changed his life completly. An amazing story in own’s right. I find it…
This past weekend I attended the 2014 Gold Cup Open Karate Tournament in Quebec, presented by The Ohan Brothers Dojo. I went as part of my dojo, and we had some members competing. This was my first time at such an event, and I was really looking forward to it. It was a long drive from…
I think I’ve received a dose of humility. I am a polymath, which basically means I am someone whose interests spans a significant number of different subject areas. While that might sound good, it can be really frustrating to me and those around me. I get interested in a subject a dive into it, but I can…
I leave for Mexico with my family a week from today. Its been a long winter and I’m really looking forward to the sun and beach! While there I am hoping to do a whole lot of nothing. Aside from checking out nature, dolphins and sitting on the beach. I am an avid reader so…
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