Martial Arts for the 21st Century

March 2010 Blog Posts (3)

A thought regarding the "Warrior's Mentality"

You can physically train to be a martial artist and practice martial art philosophies in life but there is something within each of us that either prevents or allows us to actually apply, in reality, a warrior's mentality to physical actions; this allows us to walk through the proverbial "valley of death" or, as some would say, "today is a good day to die". Those without so called martial training can be warriors as well; try stopping a mother from protecting her children and most likely…

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Added by Master Mikeal 'Bear' Smith on March 27, 2010 at 10:32am — No Comments

Just a Thought

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Speaking for myself, and perhaps others, I have tired of hearing the derogatory banter between “Traditional” martial artists and “MMA” fighters and somewhere in between “Reality” practitioners. I challenge any to show what they do is “pure” in that there is nothing that has been changed, added and or removed…

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Added by Master Mikeal 'Bear' Smith on March 10, 2010 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

ALCOPOPS

As part of the Ultimate Black Belt Test, Team 6, graduation I recently attended a presentation by the Marin Institute in Marin County just north of San Francisco.

The subject of the presentation was ‘Alcopops’, which they’ve defined as alcoholic beverages that are often bubbly and…

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Added by Dave McNeill on March 2, 2010 at 3:26pm — No Comments