My Own Lineage V

Because circumstances had chosen for me, karate was my first martial art. My first direct sensei (先生) was Franz Scheiner. He’s still alive, practices karate, Okinawa-Kobudō, and Yáng-shì-tài-jí-quán (楊氏太极拳). He furthermore is the head instructor of the karate departments of at least three sport clubs. He meanwhile is a sixth dan in karate and a […]

In a Restaurant

In a restaurant: “Waiter! What did happen? The portion was double as large as this one, when I was here last time.” Waiter: “Then you probably had a place at the window last time.”

The Seattle Jaywalking Case

In an article on a blog, which I recently stumbled upon, the case of a policeman, who arrested a group of women for jaywalking, is described. The linked video is private, so can’t be watched by blog readers. It shall show how the (white) policeman punched one of the (black) women. It took me a […]

It’s Walking Day

It’s Walking Day or more precisely the USA’s National Walking Day. This fancy holiday was in 2007 initiated by the American Heart Association and is celebrated in each year on the first Wednesday of April. According to the American Heart Association shall the National Walking Day since 2019 be the beginning of the Move More […]

The Real Reason for Deep Stances in the Martial Arts

It’s fun to read through Brandon’s blog. I mean through the old short articles before he began to calculate permutations. He only in one of his many articles examines a detail of karate techniques. Other blogs examine many details of techniques, which readers either already know or aren’t interested in. But Brandon somehow deems this […]

The Number of the Beast

Paul Davidson wrote a disappointing article, in which he examined the number 666 from the Book of Revelations, but decided to stick with the old and still popular narrative that the famous ‘number of the beast’ describes Emperor Nero. This has been popular during many centuries because the Book of Revelation thus seemingly responded to […]