The ex-karateka Brandon, author of the ‘In Search of Karate’ blog, also is the author of the ‘Cracked Sidewalk’ blog, which is much more boring, but also contains some recent articles on his religious point of view. He had listened to an interview of a person, who did read the Bible in five days. This […]

The Martial Development blog, upon which I recently stumbled, has a great list of guys, who did martial arts for health reasons. Among them are several founders of their respective martial art. The “sickly child” story is very common as one of the commentators of that article criticizes. But I think that it is just […]

Brandon in an article on his ‘In Search of Karate’ blog recommends to know the law. I concur with this recommendation so much that I gave the same title to this article here. But I wonder if Brandon knows the law and if so, then of what jurisdiction. He gave the example of somebody getting […]

Today is Trandagen, the Swedish Day of the Crane. This fancy holiday is celebrated in parts of Sweden and also in a small part of Denmark. Crane birds leave Scandinavia for winter. Trandagen celebrates their return and thus the arrival of spring. So this fancy holiday originally had been celebrated on the spring equinox, but […]

At least people with some eighth house positions in the natal chart should be able to appreciate the following joke. In a hospital room: “Excuse me! Couldn’t you transfer that dude to the death room? His groaning and death rattle is annoying!” Nurse: “This is the death room!”

The author of the ‘In Search of Karate’ blog, by me usually referred to as Brandon’s blog, heard about the rumor that superpowers can be attained by training in the martial arts. Yet he doesn’t believe the rumor. He certainly is right with the part that subtle energy fields are nonsense. But I’ve always been […]

It’s fun to read through Brandon’s blog. I mean through the old short articles before he began to calculate permutations. In an article of this kind, he criticizes people, who demonstrate their kata applications in YouTube clips and rain down techniques on a partner, who stands still during the whole time. This as well as […]

When I began to learn karate, this was to the purpose of ending bullying. It wasn’t for recreation. It wasn’t for socializing. It wasn’t for a spiritual reason. It was neither for proving myself in competition nor for collecting trophies. It wasn’t for preserving a tradition. It definitely wasn’t for the sake of guaranteeing the […]

At least each karateka should know sundome (寸止め). Searching for this technical term results in getting annoyed with several sun domes. But sundome (寸止め) is a Japanese expression, which is used in different contexts, also besides the martial arts, and means to stop right before hitting. This can also be meant figuratively as to stand in […]

Schlecht is asteroid #21613 and also known as 1999 JF68. Schlecht measures approximately 3.2 km in diameter. Schlecht’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.33 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.21, a period of revolution of 1’297 days, and an inclination of 7.0 degrees. Schlecht was discovered during the course of the Lincoln […]