In the previous article, I gave a summary of a big part of the anime series March Comes in like a Lion. I was disappointed by neither the protagonist nor his teacher having a clue about how to help the bullied girl. The protagonist could have brought the girl to her school from time to […]

Japanese culture or rather the knowledge of Japanese people on their own culture and history can be disappointing. The anime series March Comes in like a Lion is about shōgi (将棋), the more complicated Japanese variant of chess, and hence one of very few sports anime, which I wanted to watch. I got the chance […]

The Dendê Arts blog has a great article about the development of capoeira. Yet I can’t share the enthusiasm about online videos. I did myself waste very much time with watching such videos, also about capoeira techniques. I hence know that other ways of describing them are much better. Veteran capoeiristas oppose the new technology […]

On December, 13th in each year is St. Lucia. I wouldn’t know about this holiday at all if not from the Danish science-fiction series Tidsrejsen, which shows the importance of this fancy holiday in Denmark. St. Lucia is a very important fancy holiday in all Scandinavian cultures. Although it consists only of lighting some candles […]

The same old man, to whom I once tried to explain tài-jí-quán (太極拳), told me his opinion about the christian religion. He found that christians try nothing else than to stay children. The Expulsion from Paradise just paraphrases growing up. You’re on your own instead of your parents doing everything for you. The christian doesn’t […]

The Dendê Arts blog, too, features an article on the origin of capoeira. It has some nice pictures. Few of them show capoeiristas with knives. On one picture seems a capoeirista hold a knife between his toes. This was once seen as characteristic for capoeira. The article also quotes the book Fighting for Honor by […]

I caught a freeze frame, which is a perfect addendum to my article ‘Leg Sweeps and Fancy Kicks in Capoeira’ because it demonstrates how leg sweeps became fancy kicks. Nami from the anime series One Piece seems to know capoeira. Nami in this scene, while the pirate ship Flying Lamb goes upstream on River Mountain, […]

Jay Robert Pritzker, governor of Illinois, opposes policies of the Republicans and hence shall have said that undocumented immigrants in his state are citizens, too. This makes me wonder why he doesn’t simply provide his citizens with according documents. What reason could exist to deny papers for proving citizenship to those, who are citizens of […]

This is the fourth and last set of the pictures, which I took at the temple of the god of war. Only twelve pictures this time and one of them wiggly. I respect that flashlights are prohibited in temples, so not all pictures are perfect. But my pictures still show more than what you could […]

Here is the third set of eighteen of the pictures, which I took at the temple of the god of war. Hong-Kong was fortified by the British colonial rulers, but these would rather not pray to a Chinese god. Some British 19th century cannons still exist in Hong-Kong, but previous to the British rule, only […]