What in Japanese is known as an ukemi (受け身) is in English often called a breakfall (although WordPress spell-check is complaining about this strange word). The expression “to break a fall” also is used. These expressions confuse me. Breakfall or “to break a fall” at first sound like you could make breaks or have time-outs […]

Do you know Orb: On the Movements of the Earth? It’s the title of a certainly not recommendable manga and anime. The manga got nominated for several prizes and awards and also won some. The anime is very new and has the reputation to be a failed adaptation of the manga. In general books are […]

I wished that I had found the Daito-Ryu Blog on time before April, 1st. It features an article, which describes the historical event, on which the scene of catching a fly in the original Karate Kid movie is based. Ōyama Masutatsu (大山 倍達), the founder of kyokushinkai (極真会) style karate, described in his book how […]

On April, 23rd in each year is the International Pallas’ Cat Day. The Pallas’ Cat is also known as manul (Otocolobus manul, also Felis manul) and belongs to the sub-family of small cats (Felinae). Thirty-four of forty-one known wild cat species belong to the small cats and most of them are endangered species. The Pallas’ […]

I’m sorry to not give the kanji for the names of Kimeda Takeshi or Nagano Hiromichi. While Kimeda Takeshi is famous enough for finding these kanji, I don’t know and couldn’t find those of the name Nagano Hiromichi. The possibilities are few, but guessing them wrong would be embarrassing as well as misleading. This would […]

Marion is asteroid #506 and also known as 1903 LN. Marion is of the type C or XC. Marion’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.04 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.15, a period of revolution of 1 935 days, and an inclination of seventeen degrees. Marion was discovered by the American astronomer […]

Because many techniques of martial arts and combat sports simply due to the fact that sumō (相撲) always has been public had originally been kimarite (決まり手) of sumō (相撲). So I from time to time want to show a picture of a kimarite (決まり手). I’d prefer these: You can find the above image on several […]

Anthony Louis had a look on the natal chart of the Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz and concluded from this natal chart that the sidereal zodiac would reveal more than the tropical zodiac. While the tropical zodiac also reveals a professional sportsman, the sidereal zodiac additionally reveals talent by five exalted planets. But I have […]

When I once became karate vice champion, my opponent was more experienced than I. One of the reasons to assume this was an obviously higher rank because he wore a brown belt, while I gave up engaging in graduations while wearing a blue belt. I can’t recall it anymore, but during that tournament could I […]

I took four pictures at the iSquare Shopping Mall. This coincidentally was at Easter, so I waited until Easter this year to present them. I’d still have many pictures, which I took in the Hong-Kong Special Administrative Region and would want to show, but my storage space is used up and a paid-plan would only […]