George,
How are you doing? I'm sending this note via the chat room due to brower problems I'm having. I would like to know if I could come down there for my Ni-dan test. If that is possible, let me know. (After 7 years as a Sho-dan I think it is about time).
Thank-you,
Orion
(yu214416@yorku.ca)

Jackie-San,

Thank-you for your words, and I have some for
you too, but not necessarily about Sanchin:

"What is life?
It is the flash of the firefly in the night;
It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time;
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset ...

Anthony-San,

Right! That's it! When I find sometimes that
I'm going through the motions, I have to stop an re-evaluate myself.

Am I moving, or is moving happening through me...sometimes it is hard to say. There have been times that while doing Sanchin, that I feel a surge of a type of ...

To all Karatekas,

"If you don't stand for something, you'll
fall for anything."- F.Rosevelt

I read this quote long ago, and it changed the way I saw myself and my Karate.
I would agree that soaking-up information is very important, but it is of greater importance to become your own person. In my ...