If you enjoy watching wrestling, then you certainly noticed that cruiserweights fight differently from heavyweights. This is wise, so martial artists, too, should do this. But if you’re a karateka, then don’t tell Jesse Enkamp if you don’t want to risk that he vomits in your face. He doesn’t believe in adapting your fighting style […]

While waiting for my daily anime to begin in free tv, I watched another religious tv show. (Now you figured out why I watch so many random religious tv shows.) Some theologians tried to answer the question whether the Final Judgement must be feared. They first explained what other people think about this topic. Hell […]

After I presented some religious demoninations’ opinion on reason, I wondered what could be the opinion found in the Bible. Instead of arriving at a clear result, I got the impression that the Bible would be rather inconsistent on this topic. But I also found an article by somebody, who deems the Bible absolutely consistent […]

The website of the English Shotokan Academy is another website introducing the Seven Virtues of Bushidō (武士道) and suggests a modern replacement: Japanese English Translation Hitotsu, jinkaku kansei ni tsutomeru koto. Hitotsu, makoto no michi o mamoru koto. Hitotsu, doryoku no seishin o yashinau koto. Hitotsu, reigi o omonzuru koto. Hitotsu, kekki no yu o […]

This is rather an idea than like the previous four story plots. Recently stories about artificially intelligent robots became popular. But Hoshino Yumemi (ほしの ゆめみ) is the only perfect one of these robots. All others somehow deem Asimov’s laws of robotics burdensome and hence try to revolt. I think this is a clear mistake in […]

The Seven Virtues of bushidō (武士道) are for example taught by an Andy Mckechnie, who in the same article also suggests a modern alternative to them: 1.     Never take advantage over somebody else 2.     Listen to your conscience 3.     Always be honest 4.     Value other peoples time 5.     Be authentic to your own values and morals These are only five […]

The book, which I possess and which taught me about shōrinryū seibukan karate (少林流聖武館空手), is written by a Jamal Measara in German and in English. The name Jamal Measara also told me nothing. But now in the internet age has been easy to figure out that he was born in Malaysia in 1949, studies different […]

On July, 1st in each year since 2023 is the Day of the Litfaßsäule or Day of the Morris Column. I find this worth mentioning because I for a very long time wondered how to translate the German word Litfaßsäule into English. Even Google, when it celebrated this advertising column in 2020, used the German […]

Some competitors in combat sports refer to the kata of karate as silly dances and alike. Really every martial arts blog (while this one still is a blog on spiritual topics and featuring articles on martial arts only because martial arts can be ways of spirituality and because myth-busting is very necessary in the martial […]

This part of the alleged history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom doesn’t even begin there. It instead begins in Kyō, which was the Japanese name of all previous capital cities and simply has this meaning. The Kyō in question nowadays is Heiankyō and got this name because it was the capital city of the Heian Period. […]