I have the NAIKC this weekend (Starting TOMORROW!) and have been hitting tournaments pretty hard. Just this past weekend I was at a local tournament (the Capital City Classic!) and got to have a great time, compete against some pretty spectacular martial artists, and reconnect with some people I haven’t seen in a while. I …
Continue reading Tournaments: A Realization on Time and Growth
Hello! There are some exciting changes coming down the pipe for the blog. For one, I'm working on getting a new domain, and will be moving the site to a different URL. For everyone else, nothing will really change, I just need to figure out how to do it. I started an internship for the …
Remember when I used to do this thing where I would blog at least once, if not twice a week? Yeah, me too. While I wasn't blogging over the last two weeks, I was filling my time with a bunch of other stuff, including a meeting with a web designer about revamping this blog. …
I don’t want to say “pressure” because I believe that particular word has a few negative connotations. However, I think I may have hit upon something the other day in one of my sparring classes which happened to have a mostly younger population (8-10) Generally while teaching a sparring class, there’s a lot of drills …
When I was in college, whenever someone would say “we need to build a sense of community!” I would roll my eyes and make some opinionated, pretty crappy argument against it. I don’t remember why I did this, but I was probably working from the point that community was something that didn’t have a …
The other day I was walking into the school and starting to get various things ready for the day. I had a few phone calls to make, a few contracts to enter, and some general upkeep that needed to be done. There was also the generally unglamorous task of cleaning all the bathrooms and giving …
On the flight back from Orlando, there were several interesting things that happened. Well, maybe interesting is too strong a word to use. There were several unique things that happened on the trip back. And I was so proud of myself for writing them down with the goal of putting them in this blog. I felt …
The US Open is Big. Like, really big. They seemed to have rented out the entire Coranado Plaza Hotel at Disney. Everywhere I walked, there were martial artists huddled in corners sleeping on bags, and meandering around with preocupied expressions on their faces. But, no one is running through form in the middle of the …
Continue reading U.S. Open Adventures: Disappointments and Realizations
The past few weeks there has been quite the secret that I've been sitting on. It was something that I thought about writing on indirectly. In fact, there were edits on many posts made right before publishing. A type of last minute, frantic, realization of what I was doing. As you may be able to …
I have one week until the US Open. And it's pretty terrifying. I've been working, training, and generally trying to push myself into something resembling comeptition ready. But, there are still times where I'm absolutely convinced that what I'm doing is a bad idea, and that I'll have no idea what to do. But, past …
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