At a dojo that I visit regularly when I travel there is a notice posted about Dr. Elgin's forum. The lady who posts it and promotes it has a big thing about verbal self defense and she gets into a lot of discussions about it. The odd thing is that she herself is one of these righteous people who ...

Dear Sensei JD,

I keep coming back to this topic but I really don't have much more to say except something that caught my eye. BTW I don't know how to do some of the fance quotes that I'm seeing so bear with me. I admit to being an amateur. My attempt to put in the grin symbol with a "g" between 2 ...

Thanks to all of you for contributing. If I had known that my attempt to be helpful was me intruding into a lot of "family" things and secrets where you have to be part of the group to understand, I wouldn't have been so presumptuous.

Thanks for the heads-up on the half glass of water, Student. I ...

Dear Sensei Mattson,

It would be rude of me to not say thanks for your reply since you are the head of this organization. Many thanks for your thoughts. I can appreciate that your organization is a family style and I can see many benefits to those sorts of relationships.

You hit it right on the ...

Dear Sensei Glasheen:

Sorry about copying too much of the previous message. I don't post a lot although I do read several different karate and BJJ, etc. lists. I wasn't sure how to do it on this list. I mostly just lurk and I've only been on this list a few months off and on reading and looking in ...

Sensei Glasheen wrote:

I really had no intention of ever studying Uechi ryu. I had come fresh from a hard Japanese style, taught by a talented maniac. While I wasn't a master, I knew what a good karateka looked like.
I passed on the first martial arts opportunity I was exposed to at UVa. It was a ...