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Skip to main content. Stumbling down the path of karate-do. Submitted by Tom Swiss. Wed, 02/05/2014 - 17:05. Showing "setsu do motsu", ice-covered bamboo in my backward, 5 Feb 2014. More information about text formats. No HTML tags allowed. Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Allowed HTML tags: a em strong cite blockquote code ul ol li dl dt dd.
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Skip to main content. Stumbling down the path of karate-do. Submitted by Tom Swiss. Sat, 08/13/2016 - 06:00. Sometimes in your training you're going to hear contradictory things. Maybe I tell you to do a certain stance one way, and then a few weeks later I tell you to do it a different way, or you go take your promotion test and Sei Shihan Kate tells you something different. Now, sometimes that's because I was just wrong the first time! Read more about Training Paradoxes. Submitted by Tom Swiss. This is ...
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What is a McDojo? | Sky Hand Road
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Skip to main content. Stumbling down the path of karate-do. What is a McDojo? Submitted by Tom Swiss. Thu, 09/04/2014 - 14:48. I am, for the record, against people getting injured. If I recall correctly I first saw the term "McDojo" in the early 90s in the USENET form rec.martial-arts. Like "McJob" or "McMansion", it seemed self-explanatory. But sometimes the term gets thrown around to mean "anyone using training method different than us", so perhaps some deeper analysis is in order. A McDonalds "meal" g...
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Skip to main content. Stumbling down the path of karate-do. Submitted by Tom Swiss. Thu, 03/06/2014 - 00:12. For those of us in such arts, "osu" is a very important word. So what does it really mean, literally? As is often the case in Japanese, there is more than one phrase with the same pronunciation. There is an "osu" that is short for "ohayou gozaimasu", meaning "good morning" (or more literally, "it's early! But we are not going around the dojo constantly saying "good morning" to each other! Together...
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kata: the forms that shape us | Sky Hand Road
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Skip to main content. Stumbling down the path of karate-do. Kata: the forms that shape us. Submitted by Tom Swiss. Thu, 04/03/2014 - 16:30. We often translate the word "kata" as "form". As is often the case there are many other ways to translate it, depending on context. But for our purposes in the martial arts, "form" seems to be agreed upon. But what is a form? A kata is something that shapes your practice, shapes you. That's important. It's not a static thing that exists independent of you....With ...
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Vitamin B12 (and D) | Peace And Long Life
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Peace And Long Life. Healthful, sustainable, and compassionate living. Vitamin B12 (and D). Submitted by Tom Swiss. On Sat, 04/13/2013 - 5:42pm. This is just insurance against running out of your body's natural supply, and take a little bit more if you're worried about it.). Vitamin B12: how much, how often? NutritionFacts.org (NutritionFacts.org). In my professional opinion, the easiest and most inexpensive way to get one’s B12 is to take at least 2,500 mcg (µg) of cyanocobalamin once each week, ideally...
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Skip to main content. Gonzo blogging on politics, culture, and technology. Social media for the 1%. Submitted by Tom Swiss. Fri, 09/19/2014 - 09:29. FFS Obviously, why should the 1% have there feeds polluted with the posts of the poors? OTOH, the subscriber's list would be a handy reference when we start sending the aristos to the guillotine. Netropolitan Is Facebook For The Rich, Only A $9000 Fee To Join. Donate and buy me a beer. More information about text formats. No HTML tags allowed. S linkity-tumb...
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For Weight Loss, Less Exercise May Be More (NYT Well) | Peace And Long Life
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Peace And Long Life. Healthful, sustainable, and compassionate living. For Weight Loss, Less Exercise May Be More (NYT Well). Could less exercise be more beneficial for weight loss? NYT's "Well" blog reports:. For Weight Loss, Less Exercise May Be More. So what's the deal? How is it possible that people burning more calories lost less weight? So if you're going to use intense exercise as an excuse to pig out - and I know that tempation myself and have occasionally fallen prey to it! No HTML tags allowed.
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