There seems to be an age-old debate in the martial arts world about the virtues of ground fighting versus standing techniques.  Over the years of my involvement in martial arts, I’ve heard many instructors arguing for both sides – some throwing out statistics (over 80% of fights end up on the ground, or most fights […]

Greetings, Well, you heard it here first.  Master Pearson has just received his shipment of the new Shin Ho Kwan student uniforms.  They are gorgeous and super cool – sort of a throwback to the awesome old school IME uniforms but with a modern twist.  And never fear black belts…ours are on their way (and […]

Greetings, I am back from a wonderful vacation, delightfully tanned/burned, and dreading the return to normalcy. That’s always hard, after being waited on hand and foot and enjoying the beauty of another world (particularly that of the southern Caribbean), somehow the North East just doesn’t have the same appeal! While on this trip I also […]

The final chapter I have to share with you here from the book Journey To Mastery: Feng Shui for Life, by Dr. Kathryn Mickle, Ph. D., is the chapter on the central symbol of the bagua; the Yin and Yang symbol. The Bagua, with Yin-Yang center. Image via ezine.kungfumagazine.com The chapter begins; “The center of […]

Greetings, This past weekend, in case you didn’t watch the video, I was very fortunate to host Hagsaeng Naebu at my home in West Hartford, CT.  It was my honor to have my classmates as well as Master Pearson in my home.  Master Pearson also did a tremendous amount of speaking and participating in the […]

This week I would like to share excerpts from the chapter about the Trigram Mountain, or in Feng Shui terms “Inner Knowledge,” from the book Journey To Mastery: Feng Shui for Life by Dr. Kathryn Mickle, Ph. D. This will be the 7th discussed here on my blogs of the 8 Trigrams used in Feng Shui, […]

In addition to my routine training and work this week, I have focused on my study of the Law of Attraction.  While my experience has perhaps been rather simple, I hope that my sharing of it is meaningful to others.  I definitely feel as though I have reached a new level in my understanding and […]

That’s right, fall break! I’m back in Rochester until Tuesday afternoon (I arrived on Friday night) but I’m still neck deep in work so it hasn’t really been much of a break for me… Just a change of scenery for my homework. An upcoming Chemistry test, English paper, and an oral presentation on nonprofit organization […]

Introduction As usual, the week seemed to have flown by.  I was much better this week at time management and creating more time for my practice.  Balancing all of life’s elements continues to be a bit of a challenge, but I really feel like I’m sensing a light at the end of the tunnel.  Things […]

Greetings! For those of you who don’t know what I do professionally you should read my bio before reading this post, otherwise it won’t make sense to you.  With all the holidays my people experience between the end of September and the end of October, this is undoubtedly the most stressful time of the year […]