Greetings! I want to pick up a little bit with what I talked about in my last post… So if you follow the calendar at all you’ll know I just came out my 1st busy season at my new job.  Last week I talked about my experience with self-doubt, or really the lack-there-of due to […]

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 […]

Greetings… So not a single person responded to my forum question…such a shame   We are so grateful to you, our readers, but it would be nice if a few more of you would comment every once in a while.  We want to know what you’re thinking.  We already know a lot about our fellow […]

Greetings… A quick update before I start writing on the actual blog topic.  I did in fact finally drag the sand and other materials upstairs in order to construct my own training apparatus.  I began work also on putting the weighted hoop together.  I had to be a bit resourceful as I realized that a […]

O Sensei, the founder of Aikido. Master Shaffer once mentioned that O Sensei, the founder of Aikido, had an order in which things should be done in a self-defense situation.  I have been wanting to find the specific quote. I found this quote in a preview of the book Complete Aikido: Aikido Kyohan: The Definitive […]

Disclaimer: We (Hagsaeng Naebu + Shin Ho Kwan) are specifically non-religious, suitable for persons of any or no religion. If I mention things that sound like they aren’t entirely non-religious, for example spirituality, it may reflect my personal beliefs (or that of others- if I am discussing something we are reading for example) but is […]

Wow!  Is it Sunday already?  How did this happen?  The past three weeks I’ve been so much more on top of things. But this week has just been insane.   Master Pearson reminded me today that I still haven’t posted and I’m glad he did because it just truly wasn’t on my mind today.  Then […]

In this week’s post I thought I would share a translation of the Shinhinmei (Verses of the Believing Mind) by one of my instructors.  I hope you enjoy it. The Way comes most readily for those who have few preferences.  When wishing for and wishing against are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised.  Make […]

When I was a young student of Master Pearson’s (like ages 7-15) there used to be a whole group of us who got really into the competitive Taekwondo thing. Though this was far from Master Pearson’s interest he was happy to work with us, train us (pretty hard, mind you), and coach us through the […]