Reading has been a cornerstone of human civilization for thousands of years. Without it, we would not be where we are today. How else would someone in pre-technology times pass on their thoughts, knowledge and valuable life lessons onto the next generation? Perhaps it was educational content meant to teach people the lessons the […]
Focus is right behind confidence in terms of help requests we get from parents. Kids have a hard time focusing much on anything, after all, especially the thing that they need to be doing when they’re told to do it. We have a lot of program-specific tactics we use in our martial arts classes, but we […]
When I was younger, video games and cartoons were an incredibly large part of my life. I was the only child at home, and my school friends lived almost 20 minutes away by car, so I found social and mental stimulus almost entirely through the virtual worlds I explored on my Playstation. At the time, […]
If we look back on our childhoods, it is quite easy to see where certainly habits and personality traits came from. For me, almost all of my traits and beliefs can be traced back to my childhood. Either they are ones that I learned and have held up since I was in school, or […]
Dear Mom and Dad, I wanted to start by saying that I finally understand how difficult life is. I am in my mid-twenties now and even though I’m not as emotional as I was when I was a teenager, this whole “adulting” thing is incredibly hard. I’m already finding it difficult to balance working, hobbies, […]
I can already hear you asking: “This is a martial arts school. What does this particular topic have to do with martial arts?” Quite a bit, actually. True martial arts is about conquering our inner demons – learning to find balance in a world full of chaos. Sometimes that balance comes from disciplined decisions, such […]
The concept of ‘ranks’ in martial arts is actually one I find intriguing. Martial arts is one of the only sports in the world to use a visible ‘ranking’ system. Why is that? I’ve never seen a group of shaolin monks training with a belt on, so where did this system come from and what is […]
In order improve ourselves, in any form, we must first look within, and find a desire and passion to learn. Many people’s reaction to the idea of having to ‘learn’ something is usually not positive. This is fairly understandable, since we spend most of our childhood years being forced to learn many things that we aren’t necessarily […]
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