The reason for fats easily making obese is not only their high energy content (many calories), but also that many flavoring agents are soluble in fats. So in order to make food delicious, fats are required. As everybody probably knows, food is eaten with more delight if it is delicious. So people automatically consume more […]

One of the English (as a foreign language) teachers, who I had in school, celebrated his birthday twice each year. Not because he would have loved parties so much, what I don’t know, but because he had two birth certificates, which contradicted each other and so together confirmed two different birthdays. He at some time […]

Some wannabe martial artists, who disdain kata, recommend martial arts, which know only drills instead of kata. Though that’s the very same! So some other wannabe martial artists, who disdain kata, recommend pananjakman and panantukan. This allegedly are Philippine martial arts, but in truth are only the newest ideas of McDojos. They market panantukan also […]

Comments from the year 2014 on the according article by Jesse Enkamp tell me that after the abolition of mandatory kata, competitors began to modify their kata and to do backflips during the performances. This makes me somehow understand people, who disdain kata. If you can’t find applicable kata, then I, who loves kata, advises […]

Japanese according to my Japanese teacher knows ninety words for “I”. He didn’t teach them. So I guess that he knew only a statistic. To refer to the first person and also to the second person is in Japanese even more difficult than in Chinese. I forgot where, but I did read an analysis about […]

Though I was quite good in doing kata, I never competed in doing kata. I can’t recall that anybody from the sports club in my village would ever have competed in doing kata. We learnt them only for doing belt exams or sometimes for public demonstrations. I now wonder whether I never tried to take […]

According to Brandolini’s Law, the controversy between Ed Parker fans and Ed Parker haters has to be decided by stating that the point of view of the fans is more reasonable because the third article of this article series is longer than the second. Although I still have to debunk one more point. His haters […]

Though most Germans probably never heard anything about him, I count Trutz Hardo because of a certain incident, which shines some light on how it is to live in Germany, to the German peculiarities. Trutz Hardo is a hypnosis and reincarnation therapist and hypnosis teacher. I bought his self-hypnosis audiotapes when I tried to learn […]

Before saying anything about Ed Parker, I must emphasize that I’m not biased. This article only looks one-sided because the opposing view is found in the previous article. Here I only portray the perspective of people, who’ve admired Ed Parker. According to some people, who personally knew Ed Parker, he was a great martial artist […]

Before saying anything about Ed Parker, I must emphasize that I’m not biased. This article only looks one-sided because the opposing view is found in the next article. Here I only portray the perspective of people, who’ve hated Ed Parker. According to some people, who personally knew Ed Parker, he was a fake martial artist […]