John Lowrie: In Martial Arts, the goals are to develop strength, endurance, muscular development, speed, reaction time, etc. It’s possible to do boring repetitive tasks that can improve each of these items but it becomes more fun and the students more eager to participate and spend more time if you can disguise the training as a game provided, of course, that there is a specific goal or skill to be developed.| Martial Journal
Strategy and Tactics Using the military aspects of Chess to enhance your Martial Arts Chess and its Military Past I first started playing chess when I was 9 years old and by the time I was 13 years old, I had a chess coach, played in several tournaments a year, [Read More]| Martial Journal
Advancing Martial Arts, One Word At A Time.| Martial Journal
The class really didn’t end in the dojo, as the conversation around the table was all about the training. While the food was amazing, the dojo conversation continued until we were kicked out of the restaurant, where everyone squeezed every last second from Shihan, before we all headed home. I was treated no differently than if I had actually trained in class.| Martial Journal
As an avid follower of martial arts business seminars and courses, I have committed myself to attending as many virtual and in-person events as possible. Upon retiring from my corporate management position, I took a deep dive into the current trends in the martial arts industry. After summarizing numerous seminars [Read More]| Martial Journal
I normally write almost exclusively about the business side of the martial arts industry and do so in order to stay out of the many controversies that make up the various styles and “ways” of the genre. I did write about my own personal martial arts evolution, which was not [Read More]| Martial Journal
My First Naginata Encounter My Naginata Budo experience is a colorful and ongoing journey and while Naginata was a minor part of my martial arts training it had a huge impact on my Budo awareness. I was at the International Budo University when I first encountered Naginata and it immediately [Read More]| Martial Journal
Sport Karate Business Benefits I met with Jackson Rudolph to discuss sports karate in the Olympics as I had read his Black Belt Magazine article on the benefits of bringing sports karate into your martial arts business. We were able to collaborate on an excellent article on the merits of [Read More]| Martial Journal
How Best to leverage ChatGPT/AI to write a Martial Arts article Is this the Future of Blogs? I decided to follow up on my Martial Arts AI article by demonstrating the quality of the future of AI articles. With this in mind and seeing I am a huge Sumo Fan, [Read More]| Martial Journal
This new forced paradigm has now moved the industry to a new form of martial arts business which I call “Plug and Play Karate” … (for example)| Martial Journal
Over the past many decades of Martial Arts involvement, there really haven't been too many physical items I could point to as something I treasure from my many days of budo training.| Martial Journal
(Budo AI) How Artificial Intelligence will affect The Martial Arts industry Time to Ponder I have read about the new AI ChatGPT or what is now GPT-4.5 and it is obvious that the quality of the material that comes from this new paradigm will reduce (or even eliminate) the need [Read More]| Martial Journal
RSC: I was doing tea as a hobby and spent most of my time studying of the martial arts. Once I felt I was skilled enough in the martial arts (can you ever really be skilled enough!) I wanted to increase my tea skills. So my original plan was to do 10 years of martial arts followed by 10 years of tea and then 10 years of tea and the martial arts together. But what happened was my martial arts practice kind of fell by the wayside and I continued to devote myself to the way of tea. And now I’m...| Martial Journal
