The famous samurai and swordsman Miyamoto Musashi distinguishes in his Gorin-no-Sho (五輪書)/ Book of Five Rings whether you hit an opponent intentionally or accidentally. Thus it at least got translated into English. But the German translation instead distinguishes between Hieb and Streich. I recently discussed this with an AI agent and the English translation seemingly […]

Stuart is asteroid #3874 and also known as 1986 TJ1. Stuart measures 8.5 km in diameter. Stuart’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.68 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.05, a period of revolution of 1’604 days, and an inclination of 7.7 degrees. Stuart was discovered by Edward L. G. “Ted” Bowell at […]

Many of my blog posts on martial arts are in truth excuses for talking about linguistics. It’s time for some linguistics in this article series, too. The Chinese language is only for political reasons treated as one language, but in reality exist several Sinitic languages, which for political reasons usually are referred to as dialect […]

Strong is asteroid #22622 and also known as 1998 KV32. Strong’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.36 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.18, a period of revolution of 1’319 days, and an inclination of 6.3 degrees. Strong measures 4.6 km in diameter. Strong was discovered during the course of the Lincoln Near-Earth […]

In this article series’ eighth part, I already briefly mentioned Fāng Yǒngchūn (方 永春)/ Fong Weng-Chun as a Crane Style practitioner or even Crane Style founder. She’s unlikely to be the founder of a martial art. She could as well simply have passed on what she learnt from Fāng Shìyù (方 世玉)/ Fong Sai-Yuk. I […]

If you did read my article on peak wrestling nearing its end, then you could have wondered why I tell y’all about the wrestling shows in German free tv, where you most likely won’t watch them. But that I watch wrestling is relevant because everything is connected with everything. For example, many of my articles […]

In the eighteenth part of my article series ‘Southern Shàolín (少林) Style Mythology’, I mentioned some Chinese mythological animals. But I gave further explanations only about the White Tiger and the Dark Warrior. At least would have been necessary to mention that the Chinese phoenix has hardly anything in common with the Greek phoenix. Only […]

Two years ago, I had been glad that I could watch six wrestling shows per week, which compensated me for all the previous years without wrestling shows in German free tv. AEW Rampage did disappear soon afterwards, but WWE’s pay-per-view events entered German free tv instead. Additionally have the documentary series Biography: WWE Legends, WWE […]

Chris reported that somebody, who he calls Brandon, got shot three times at point-blank range. I wondered what this means. Well, English isn’t my mother tongue, so I thought that looking up this expression could be helpful. Yet, instead of a dictionary entry, I only found a discussion on whether point-blank range would have the […]

On June, 21st in almost each year (except leap years) is summer solstice and the longest day in the northern hemisphere. Because people from the southern hemisphere have no objections, even southern hemisphere astrologers don’t object to the Ancient Greek explanations of the meanings of the zodiac signs due to the seasons, so whatever is […]