We don’t want anything other than chi or prana training. It is kind of pointless to hone techniques that cannot be updated to every situation. Reading the book, Mastery Mindset, the author (a practitioner of karate and aikido) has written about his own experiences facing and learning from masters who have a high level of …
Here are excerpts I found exceedingly interesting in the book “Mastery Mind-Set” (149171459X). Page 20-21 – Regarding Belts “If your club uses colored belts, know that this tradition only goes back to the 1940s, when Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo, standardized a ranking system. This ranking system was later adopted by other arts. If …
There are a few demonstrations I do to prospective students. The list is not long but I see myself improving readily and so am not too worried in these regards. The basic format of (our) action remains the same. Rise, do the forms while rising and do chi sau while rising. Those are the only …
