Heroes and Their Demons

Article by: Randy Peterson

Growing up, my major passion was baseball. I loved everything about the game and researched many of the great players. Players like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle were all not only legends, but heroes to myself and generations of kids before and after me. These athletes inspired orphans, overweight children, and those living in [...]

Coming of Age

Article by: Donald Miskel

I absolutely adore children. Next to women I think that children are one of God’s best inventions. Infants, babies, toddlers and children; I love them all. Teenagers on the other hand… But that’s a thought for another time. Every living creature progresses through stages in its life. Adulthood is reached over time. Maturity is a [...]

The Intelligent Use OF Faith

Article by: Stephen Kaufman

The concept of faith is generally misunderstood. Usually ascribed to a theological tenet, and in certain circumstances it should be, faith does not necessarily have to be relegated to any limited functionality. If anything is anything, than everything is everything. Faith can be taken in two ways: one is the “faith IN something,” and the [...]

Breaking Bad

Article by: Donald Miskel

Not very original and bordering on plagiarism but that’s me in spades. I’m a bad mutha (shut your mouth!) but I’m talking about Donn (then we can dig it). Yep, if I’m going to indulge in plagiarism might as well go all the way. Sounds like I’m bragging doesn’t it? “No brag, just fact”. I’m [...]

Intuitive Knowingness

Article by: Stephen Kaufman

Intuition is that “thing,” or feeling that sends messages to you, presumably from your inner self, which you should pay attention to, but usually do not because of a fundamental lack of trust in your self—or worse, a hidden desire to fail. The value of intuition is overlooked for the very fact that it is [...]

Calm

Article by: John Wallace

It has been my experience in Life that, with a few notable exceptions, whenever a bully is confronted with a resolute and calm and (at least SEEMINGLY) confident adversary, he will usually back down. Does not work every time, but it has proved to be, in my experience anyway, generally true. I noticed a while [...]

Sand Fu

Article by: Donald Miskel

Yeah, I know. I can almost hear you complaining, “Here he goes again with those ridiculous titles”. If you’ll be kind enough to bear with me for a few minutes I hope to get this to make sense. I’ll try anyway. As many of you know by now, I look back on my martial arts [...]

Metaphysics in Martial Disciplines

Article by: Stephen Kaufman

This is a lengthy article, and I have broken it into two parts so as not to jam up readers, based on the concepts I will be talking about. I receive many questions and comments about my work and what I have accomplished in the martial disciplines for more than five decades. Every so often [...]

Of Babies and Bathwater

Article by: Donald Miskel

It comes as no surprise to anyone who knows me and who chances to read any of my essays or articles that I am minister, pastor and martial artist. All sorta rolled up into one. A hybrid as it were. When I look at the condition of the martial arts and the martial art community [...]

O Soto Gari – Different Arts, Different Perspectives

Article by: John Wallace

A basic first principle throw in Judo is “O Soto Gari”, a major outer reaping of the opponents outside leg. This is usually done in Judo with a foot sweep technique, along with a chest bump and a twisting of the opponent’s upper body in the desired direction necessary to compliment the throw. From the [...]

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