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
(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
