Just over one week ago I was in the Adirondacks with roughly twenty black belts. I have several memories from this retreat – anything from pleasant to slightly painful! – so in that respect it was just like every other Black Belt Winter Retreat. And although we cycle through a fairly similar routine each year, […]

Greetings, Well, we’re back!  Hard to believe how fast it came and went, but indeed, another Winter Retreat is behind us.  These weekends are always special and this one was no exception.  It was great to reconnect with old students and teachers and meet new people as well.  If you missed this one, then I’m […]

A few weeks ago, I administered our final promotion exam of the 2012 to my students.  When all had finished and (*sigh of relief*) passed, I concluded the test with the following famous story (of course modified so that the kids would get it and enjoy it), as a lesson in perseverance and what it […]

For this week’s post, I recorded another episode of the Video Dojang Classroom.  I used a different program on my iPad this time, so I was able to upload the video directly to YouTube.  Again I apologize for the quality of the video, there is only so much that is possible while sitting in my […]

Master Pearson’s Weekly Post #59 As most of you know I teach statistics at a college level. This coming semester will mark the 90th time I have taught ECON221 - Statsitics 1. I started teaching this class in 1994. Basically, I’ve been teaching it a lot fora long time. Over the years of teaching I have […]

This tip can drastically increase the stability of your stances. A large number of martial artists spend all their time focusing on the position of their feet (see last tip), the weight distribution between their feet, and the exact location of their feet relative to each other and their body. You might be asking, “what […]

The River of the Way Meeting a Master of the Way, on the Way. The Teacher Student Relationship Shin Ho Kwan’s Doctrine of Behavior Respect Secrets I know, that was 6 and not 5. This post was a lot harder than I thought it would be.  I couldn’t figure out which posts to pick. Should […]

Among other things, Taekwondo forms involve the precise execution of techniques including stances.  The practice of forms can teach us many things such as attention to detail (because there are millions of details in forms to pay attention to), body coordination, and technique flow and familiarity. We learn these things by repeatedly practicing the forms […]