Though this is an addendum to the sixth part of my article series “Some Karatedō (空手道) Philosophy”, this addendum was inspired by a discussion, which Dejan Djurdjevic had with Ymar Sakar. Both blog about martial arts, though Ymar Sakar’s blog also treats many other topics. For example the Ukraine War. Dejan Djurdjevic philosophized on his […]

The Homo sapiens sapiens as a species is proud of its opposable thumbs. Albeit these are a blessing instead of a merit. Try to not use your thumbs for a whole day! This exercise is at least much more sensible than to “condition” (battering) your hands by smacking them against training tools. If you refrain […]

While I was a conscript and served in a military truck driving school, I was the only trooper amidst many sergeants. That was rarely funny, despite in truth being a privilege. But here I only pass on a talk, to which I once listened. Master-Sergeant: “You don’t look fit! Didn’t you sleep well?” Sergeant: “I […]

Did you ever hear of Shisa-Kanko (指差喚呼)? It’s a Japanese method for quality management. Shisa-Kanko (指差喚呼) aims at avoiding mistakes. To this purpose has a worker to touch or at least point at each item and while doing so also to say the item’s denotation. It’s a useful technique in spite of making the worker […]

I found an instance of the anecdote in question. Students of Itosu Yasutsune (糸洲 安恒) performed a kata. His former student Motobu Chōki (本部 朝基) watched this performance and found that it was what he learnt as the kata Channan, but somehow changed. When he inquired what the new students performed, these answered that it […]

The People’s Republic of China is the world’s biggest market for electric vehicles. Roughly fifteen years ago had Chinese cars entered the European market, but failed every test for safety because the Chinese didn’t care about safety. Chinese politics on this issue reversed completely. At least fifteen documented cases of people, who died in Tesla […]

When Charlie Kirk questioned Benjamin Netanyahu’s motives concerning the Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu offered him a huge donation for his organization Turning Point USA. But Charlie Kirk declined. Charlie Kirk was smart enough to listen what his enemies and critics would say. He again did so in last July at his Turning Point USA Student Action […]

I know one (or two) more variant(s) of the scoop-up & push-down technique. It is found in tài-jí-quán (太極拳). The technique in question is known as Brush Knee & Twist Step or as lōuxī-àobù (搂膝拗步). One hand scoops up a kicking leg, the other hand pushes the attacker down! But “Twist” is a strange wording. […]

Several people communicate with God via Bible verses. Most of these people simply open the Bible regularly on a random page. Sometimes a mysterious voice tells them to do this. Another guy, who got interviewed in a religious tv show, explained that he felt that he had lost something, when he turned away from the […]

Brandon in many really lengthy articles on his blog (lengthy and even lengthier) developed his own theory of stem cell movements. It is very much the same as that of Dejan Djurdjevic, only without the nice name. Brandon calculates that if he knows thirteen moves with ten variants each, then he could from them form […]