Jesse Enkamp knows the rumor that ninety percent to ninety-five percent of all real fights end on the ground. Yet he doesn’t believe this rumor. I also don’t believe it, but for a different reason. He doesn’t believe it because the source is a study of the Los Angeles Police Department and to arrest suspects […]

To Napoleon Bonaparte allegedly had been reported that the people, who lived on Okinawa, didn’t possess any weapons. Napoleon Bonaparte allegedly shall have replied that he can’t believe that any people existed, who wouldn’t have been interested in war. Should this be true, then the piece of information, which Napoleon Bonaparte got, was completely outdated. […]

Thirty-six types of weapons are used in the Shàolín (少林) Style. This is almost commonly known. At least martial artists know this. Some movie fans, too. Yet the Shàolín (少林) Style only in the beginning of the twentieth century became the mother of all External Martial Arts. Historical Shàolín (少林) Monks could have been forced […]

On May, 27th in each year is the World Day of the Roly-Poly. This fancy holiday is a German invention. (Original name: Welttag des Purzelbaums) Why this day was picked remains unclear. Also what the English word roly-poly (WordPress’ spellcheck doesn’t know it) or the German word Purzelbaum mean at all. Because the fancy holiday […]

The English word pension seems to refer to all types of retirement pay. This circumstance gives the impression that all retired people in Anglo-Saxon countries would get the same retirement pay. Most of the people in Germany are less lucky. The German word Pension refers only to the retirement pay, which a government gives to […]

Do you know savate? (WordPress’ spellcheck doesn’t.) It’s a French combat sport. So to avoid misunderstandings: -e at the end of a French word is silent, so savate doesn’t rhyme on karate. When Englishmen developed boxing, Frenchmen wanted their own, so thought: When they punch, then we kick. So savate got developed from the 17th […]

Okinawa and the Ryūkyū Islands had as the Ryūkyū Kingdom been independent from Japan for several centuries. So you could wonder whether the Ryūkyū people don’t have a different language. I also wondered about this for several years. Some people meanwhile want to sell the idea that Uchinaaaguchi (sometimes even without the prolonged a) would […]

Although I’m reluctant when other people want to pray for me, I already agreed to it occasionally and I, too, did pray for other people, who I didn’t know. Although I worry how I could know the needs of other people or they could know mine, praying for other people still could be a good […]

Today is widely accepted that the roots of karatedō (空手道) are in India, from where Bodhidharma (बोधिधर्म) brought a martial art like kalaripayat to the Shàolín (少林) Monastery in China, where he then developed Shàolín (少林) Boxing. Because some Chinese Emperors supported Buddhism, but other Chinese Emperors persecuted Buddhists, so the Shàolín (少林) Monastery got […]

During my time in Hong-Kong, I met many asylum seekers. I met them at a quite boring Mass, at a Bible study group, and at a prayer group. Asylum seekers in Hong-Kong go to these christian places because all of these offer some free food. I too was glad when I could save some costs […]