Bogus martial art styles (and also bogus systems in other fields) seem to be a big problem, especially in the USA. But you could also find a bad teacher of an otherwise great martial art. So I understand that keeping track of lineages is important. Hence I should by revealing my own lineages prove that […]

As already briefly mentioned in my article for the USA’s National Skirt Day, school uniforms are alien to Germans. I’m not sure, but I think that wearing school uniforms are an international standard. At least pupils in all Anglo-Saxon countries, in China, and in Japan have to wear school uniforms. So Germany and other countries […]

I love the anime series Kenichi – The Mightiest Disciple because had I grown up in Japan, then it would be the story of my life. I also love the very first Karate Kid movie because had I grown up in the USA, then it would be the story of my life. I also took […]

I did read another critique, which claimed that astrology wouldn’t be science because of not fitting in with the scientific perspective on the world. With other words, I again had to read nonsense instead of a substantiated critique. Science isn’t Materialism and also vice-versa Materialism isn’t science! Materialists will never be able to acknowledge astrology […]

I had the opportunity to watch the anime series Reincarnated as a Sword. I found a genius aikidō (合気道) technique there. I also had the opportunity to get a freeze frame of it:   I initially thought to see an ushiro-nage (後ろ投げ) here. This would have been done by dodging the stab and pulling at […]

The natal chart of Whitney Houston featured Neptune in Eight. She died of a drug overdose. Either she should have drowned like I predict for myself because of my natal Neptune in Eight or I should be in danger of dying of a toxic substance. Yet Whitney Houston’s natal Neptune was the center of a […]

At least all advanced martial artists should know that the concept of shu (守) – ha (破) – ri (離) exists. It isn’t limited to the martial arts, but describes stages of learning in general. The concept can only be best explained with the martial arts as examples. Sadly, some martial arts websites give wrong […]

On March, 28th in each year is the USA’s National Black Forest Cake Day. Why and since when is unknown. Why the Black Forest Cake has this name also is unknown. The name implies that it was invented in the Black Forest. There are other theories about the matter, but most of them still have […]

Yukawa Tsutomu (湯川 勉) lived on the material plane from 1911 until 1942. He under Hoshi Tesshin (星 哲臣) studied jūdō (柔道). Yukawa Tsutomu (湯川 勉) in 1931 traveled to Tōkyō (東京) to the purpose to study at the Kōdōkan (講道館). But while in the city he encountered Ueshiba Morihei (植芝 盛平) and suffered a […]

The founder of jūdō (柔道), Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎), got bullied while he was a child. So he learnt some martial arts, but he was for the first time accepted as a student of a martial art when he already was seventeen years of age. This had been a quite common fate because martial arts […]