I am declaring war on Air pods, if anyone is wearing them during a training session they are fair game for other students to sneak up and slap them across the head. Besides it being rude and disrespectful the person can’t use an important sense and therefore should be taught how vulnerable they are. Hearing […]
I was recently crossing the road in Dublin and was in a very relaxed way when suddenly a man darted in front of me from behind and turned with a menacing stare. Immediately my heart-rate shot up and i was immediately in a state of Fight/Flight. I held his stare and he moved on but […]
Some of the following is almost a bit spooky but I have asked Dr Google and confirmed what I am saying but as this isn’t an academic journal I have not used references so the following disclaimer is issued that it may not be the 100% truth but it could at the very least be […]
Of all the martial arts I settled on boxing or as the bra’s say “thug life chose me”. The answer to why is best summed by a quote from Bruce Lee “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” I […]
In 2006 I was competing in a karate tournament in Johannesburg. I was well past my fighting prime at 45 but an opportunity to go to South Africa was too good to pass up. We had spent the better part of a week cooped up in hotels, bused to venues or shopping centers surrounded by […]
Although always room for improvement, i am very happy with our adult programs and teens after making the change to the teens program lifting the age of entry to 14 years from 13 years because our average age in teens would be 15-16 years and the body maturity is too far a gap between a […]
I am currently sitting in my hotel in Dublin after spending a week walking the West Highland Way in Scotland. Because the group I was walking with were younger and fitter than me and were more interested in racing each other than savoring the life changing scenery, I spent a good deal of time walking […]