It's July. Last year at this time we were limited to 8 people in the dojo, masks were everywhere and the tension was thick enough to cut with a knife. Last year I had just moved to Milwaukee and spent a fair amount of time bringing stuff to Ohio. Last year at about this time …
D.C. was a blast, but there was a tragedy, then there was so many boards broken and hair that turned blue! Oh my Stars and Garters you gotta check this one out!
A few weeks ago (already, where does the time go,) I was happily sitting in the Chicago airport, waiting patiently for my flights to get rolling, and for a great weekend in DC. I was heading to the U.S. Capitol Classics/China Open and I was PUMPED. I'd never been and I'd only ever heard great …
Three weeks ago (I think) I was in the Toronto airport at something like 5 AM to catch a flight that I had been booted off of the night before due to too many people being on the plane. Not because I was misbehaving, or anything like that. But, during this groggy, somewhat hazy experience, …
New Happening! Most notable, I'm now three decades old.
Karate, Travel, and a HAIRCUT!
How much has been going on? All of it. All of the things have been going on. Check out what 5,000 miles, not a lot of sleep and a whole lot of thinking will get you!
Last month (already!) was the AmeriKick Internationals. It was the first NASKA event I had been to in a while. Between honeymoon, black belt tests, working, taking over a business, and graduate school, getting annoyingly sick, and generally running all over the great state of Wisconsin with a grin and a lot of coffee there's …
Ready for it? This is a long one. This past weekend was the U.S. Open. It's an event that many martial artists, including me, prepare for all year. Last year it went...ok. It wasn't great - it wasn't bad. It was just an experience that gave me material to write a few a few blog …
It's been an insane few weeks. And it will only get more chaotic and more intense as I move forward. In fact, this is the season of chaotic and intense. The last six months have moved past in a blur, but one that seemingly contained an endless number of events. So, let's take a look: …
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