I meanwhile repeatedly had to read quánfǎ (拳法) translated as “fist law”. I also already quoted a website named “Law of the Fist”. This name, too, could be meant as a translation of quánfǎ (拳法). This is a very stupid translation! On the one hand fǎlǜ (法律) indeed means laws or rather the codified law. […]

Martin Armstrong from time to time cheers the deportation of migrants and the abolishment of social programs. Whenever Martin Armstrong bashes illegal immigrants, this makes me wonder when the US-Americans will give back the country to the indigenous population. But this won’t happen. Martin Armstrong simply wants other people to live in misery. Although he […]

Jesse Enkamp speculated about why Okinawa Kobudō never became popular. The comment by Mike from December, 14th, in 2023 reveals the true reason. Okinawa Kobudō indeed is (perhaps with stick-fighting excepted) incredibly boring! Each minute invested into it could be better invested into something else. But the second reason according to Jesse Enkamp also is […]

Natal Saturn in Three indicates a lack of social skills due to fear because when Saturn is involved, then fear, too, is involved. Martial arts, especially karate, certainly helped to build some self-confidence. But I also experienced an influence in the opposite direction. I never was able to imagine to stand in front of a […]

Do you know what karate, jūdō, kyūdō, kendō, jūkendō, naginatadō, sumō, aikidō, and shōrinji-kempō have in common? No, this is not a joke! At latest during the pretended pandemic, many martial artists or former martial artists exchanged training hours for time in front of screens. I must admit that I belong to this kind of […]

The Pink Tax is not a real tax, but a prominent example of the same product sold at different prices. If you have a product, which you offer in different colors, then do a different marketing for the product in pink color and write “for women” somewhere on it or on its packaging! Women will […]

An article by Jesse Enkamp treats different sets of precepts, which are taught in different dōjō (道場). I like some of them more than others, but my reason for writing this article is completely different: I only by Jesse Enkamp’s article learnt that such precepts are yelled by karate students at the end of a training […]

I meanwhile found a great translation for shu (守) – ha (破) – ri (離). Jesse Enkamp translates shu (守): “play the rules”, ha (破): “break the rules”, ri (離): “make the rules”. The rest of the article, where I found this, has rather nothing to do with the concept of shu (守) – ha […]

Jesse Enkamp speculated about six reasons for changes in kata. Yet he published the real reason, maybe without noticing, in another article. An old master, already half deaf and half blind, performs a kata. His balance isn’t perfect, his techniques lack power, from time to time he forgets a move or turns the wrong way. […]

Laodica is asteroid #507 and also known as 1903 LO. Laodica is either of the type C or of the type X. Laodica’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.16 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.10, a period of revolution of 2 049 days, and an inclination of 9.5 degrees. Laodica was discovered […]