Posts under ‘Martial Arts’

This old man comes off as a little nuts, but he does have some amazing nunchaku skills:

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Friday night, I was officially awarded the rank of Ikkyu, or first-degree brown belt, in Shuri-ryu karate at the Academy of Okinawan Karate.
The black stripe down the center of the belt signifies the next step is Shodan, or black belt. This means I’m done testing for rank for a while, and it’s up to me [...]

I’m a week late with this one. I intended to post it last week, and I was going to save tonight’s shots from my karate school’s graduation as part of this week’s entry, and tomorrow we’re hitting a hot air balloon festival, but my schedule’s been completely thrown off by work (including a day trip [...]

Every day for the week we were in Hawai’i, we met at 6am for a karate workout on the beach. I didn’t look forward to getting up every morning, but once we got rolling it was very invigorating. I’d return to the hotel ready for a shower and hungry for breakfast, but full of energy [...]

I may have been out of town last week, but I took a bajillion pictures. Tonight I selected one to be part of my Photo Friday collection, a simple shot of the group of karateka after a morning workout on the beach.

A total of 13 of us went to Hawai’i together, and as it was [...]

This was taken with a cell phone, but I couldn’t resist posting it as this week’s Photo Friday entry. A good photo is a good photo; the camera doesn’t matter.

Meet Chris. He trains at the same dojo I do, and he’s probably the most enthusiastic student on the mat. He loves karate, he loves Elvis, [...]

I delayed Photo Friday this week so I could take some pictures at the anniversary banquet for Shihan Joseph Walker on Saturday night. The banquet celebrated his 50th year practicing the martial arts, and several of his students from the Academy of Okinawan Karate, including many of the 40 black belts he promoted during the [...]

It’s been a hell of a day.
It started with a crashed server at work. It took a turn for the better this evening when I burned through two more steps of my karate review process, leaving me only sparring and ju ju undo to complete to earn Ikkyu, or first-degree brown belt.
Then it ramped up [...]

Apparently I can’t just sit down and relax. I have way too much to do and not enough time to do it.
I can’t believe it’s May already.
I can’t believe it’s already Wednesday this week. I blink and another day is gone.
I have another book to write, two more short stories to write, and I’m developing [...]

It was graduation night at the Academy of Okinawan Karate, making this week’s Photo Friday entry subject a no-brainer.
Tonight the school’s newest black belt, Mr Jason David, was the featured graduate. He performed three times, demonstrating an empty hand kata, a kobudo (weapons) kata, and put on a board breaking demonstration.
I cranked up the ISO [...]