The Camp was excellent.

The people that I met were really great. It was really a great experience to be around a lot of excellent martial artists (great people) and have the ability to engage them in conversation. The Seniors there are all very approachable. If you have the opportunity, you really ...

Hi Dana,

I agree. This is a great book.
I have more insight on the book but I'll save some of those stories for later this week at Camp.

Best regards,
Joe

Hi Dana,

Tim is a great teacher and studied with some pretty excellent teachers both in Taiwan and on the Mainland.
He also went to Taiwan originally to study classical Chinese doing graduate work in the language. He already was an advanced student of San Soo. He has translated a lot of classical ...

Here's a good link on the history of BJJ from Tim Cartmell's website.

good training,
Joe

http://www.shenwu.com/bjjHistory.html

Hi Dana,

Excellent post. I just started training again after a lengthy leave from Uechi-ryu. I've done other things and will continue to cross-train with BJJ. However, I'm training with Walter Mattson and we had a great conversation about returning and "crossroads" we often have in our training ...

I believe Bill made some very excellent points. The whole concept of testing Sanchin leads to some rhetorical questions, specifically what is the main purpose and what is trying to be achieved by the testing?

I've been tested by Takamiyagi Sensei in the past. When everyone lined up in his line ...