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If you have been following my posts you may remember I have two lost (it's not lost, you just can't find it--wife) (If I can't find it, it is lost---me) items.

One was my Ninjutsu black belt with red embroidery. The other was a hanging Japanese scroll that I was repairing. I have a small part of my garage set up for home karate practice. I refer to it as my tiny doj...

One of the unexpected benefits I've gained from studying and practicing the martial arts is that it has helped enormously with my mental health and addiction issues. Watching that video Gyakuto posted about the book of the five rings- which I am getting- really helped me keep my temper during a family argument yesterday. I used to drink when I was angry in an attempt to numb the...

Hello.
I’m a martial artist and found this place looking for old-school forums to discuss martial arts. I’ve been training for three years, I’m 25 years old, and primarily love all form of grappling arts.
I train BJJ, Judo, CACC Wrestling, and sometimes pop into the MMA class though my striking is terrible lol. I’m not the best, I’m certainly not a competitor, I just...

I sometimes notice that there are big contradictions in the martial arts. For instance, and I've discussed this before, how they will say that being a first degree black belt doesn't mean you're a master or even an expert it just means you're a serious beginner, but then they make it so hard to get that you practically have to be a master to get it. Sounds very contradictory to me.

So I read this book about this guy Roy Hobbs who plays for this fictional team called the New York Knights. In the book he strikes out and then he's accused of throwing the game (where you lose on purpose) and is therefore banned from playing professionally from then on and the story ends with him as a broken man.

In the movie he hits a home run and in doing so he ...