“Yossi Ben Yoezer said, “Let your home be a gathering place for scholars, get yourself dusty in the dust of their feet, and drink in their words with thirst.”  Without going into too much detail, this is a quote from the Mishnah (Avot 4:1), a collection of rabbinic commentary and a sacred text in my […]

Master Pearson’s Weekly Post #25 For this week’s post I am going to be showing a video of Grandmaster Ahn. This is a lecture he gave in 2005 (best guess on the year), at IME. For those of you that don’t know, IME (Institute of Martial Excellences) was my main school for 15 years. I […]

Tonight I was trying to come up with a topic for this week’s post and nothing came to mind. “Seek movement and there is no movement. Seek rest and no rest comes instead.” That is a lesson that is not lost on me because it is driven home over and over again. So, after a […]

I am constantly asked by my black belts, “Why do we do that?”  The “that” they are referring to might be the constantly changing time we, as a class, sit before we bow every class.  It might be the fact that we are folding paper into fish and not kicking or it might be that […]

Today we received a request for information about the boards used in last weekend’s classes. The first board was a 1″ x 5″ x 30″ with 4 slots cut into it: As you can see in the above picture the slots are symmetrical. There is one vertical and one horizontal slot on each end of […]