Training Makes You Different
The way you move. The way you feel. The way you look. It is different from an untrained person. It is different from how you would be if you were untrained.
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Martial Arts Ideas
Safety Second
if safety outbids every other value in life, you place yourself and the people around you in grave danger.
Mattias Desmet: Martial Arts and the Source of Power
Rational knowledge is not a goal in itself; it is a stairway to a kind of knowledge that transcends rationality, a resonating knowledge, the kind of supreme intuition the martial arts of the Samurai culture aimed for throughout their technical training.
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The Triumph of the Well
Our experience, via media, is decontextualized; brutal, trivial and seductive… If we want a healthy life, we will need to build it. We draw on the dojo to do that.
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If You Can Keep It
Our talents are not permanent. Without wholesome, demanding training, we easily go wrong. It turns out, the way we live is who we are.
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The Doors of Deception
Deception is an essential combative skill. As with any dangerous weapon we need to know how to use it well, and when to put it down.
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The Age of Heroes is not Over
The world needs you. The world needs you strong. You have a great way to do it. Now is the time. This is the age of heroes.
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Yamabayashi Ryu: Challenge, Insight, Advantage
We are a part of a global collaboration of martial artists who are preserving the vitality of traditional styles, by going beyond the artificial restrictions of big organizations and the limitations inherent in individual practice, freeing us to go deeper into training, research and exploration.
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Endangered Theses
“By nature people are similar. By training they become vastly different.” – Confucius. We cultivate our natural talents, or we lose them.
This is Your Art
There is a limit to force. There is a limit to power. There is a limit to harm. There is no limit to mastery: in a life, a dojo, a community, or in the world.
Power
You have power. You are training. Your power is increasing.
You are training. Your power is increasing. More power does not mean more happiness. Power can be used well or badly. Power can be used to help or destroy.
Training Vs. The Culture of Death
From time to time the spirit of killing people and taking their stuff crashes like a wave over nations. We respond.
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Training the Body, Training the Mind
Whatever our motives and goals for our training may be, we train karate because we get a good feeling from it. It is not that training is comfortable or pleasurable or easy. But from day one we have an ideal to strive for and we feel good about taking steps to reach our ideal. It
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