My Efforts

This blog of articles is a continuous merging and melding of a few decades of hard sweat equity both on the dojo floor and in the halls of the proverbial academia. Add in my writing and impressions and perceptions and beliefs and concepts, etc., would readily indicate the lack of static and a lot of change, i.e., change as in the I Ching, etc.

My personal perceptions and perspectives have changed and continue to change, as has the culture around me and around the discipline of martial arts. All for the better as I hope and my diligence in presenting a side to the rest of the story is to avoid preaching but, ultimately, to help my fellow martial artists, as my fellow man, to construct a more open-ended expanding growing construct of martial skills and philosophies to help others reach toward the stars and float through the skies of knowledge, understanding and proficient and efficient and skillful abilities both physical and psychological. 

Most martial artists care deeply about their efforts and the efforts of those with whom they share this discipline. All of truly, as you can imagine, practice and train and apply the discipline at the highest levels possible to more comprehensively orient toward the wholehearted understanding of the art and the practice applicability it inherently presents to all of us. 

We are ALL motivated by our intention to serve our disciplines, our dojo-mates and the martial communities as best as we can overcoming all obstacles and achieving higher and higher levels of beneficial achievements not just for self, but for all martial artists and practitioners. 

What I present is NOT a comprehensive methodological approach to the studies of martial arts but a doorway to open using my own interpretations, concepts and experiences; my personal philosophical reflections of one who is trying to make sense of a very complex and important system that will ultimately effect, affect and benefit us all.