This week I thought I would talk about a somewhat more advanced topic: the martial artist type. As most of you know, within Shin Ho Kwan we practice the Taegeuk Forms as color belts. There are eight of these forms and each one is based on one of the eight trigrams. Without going into a […]

Martial Art Please forgive me if this post seems a bit repetitive.  I believe one of us may have posted on something similar before but this idea has been on my mind quite a bit this week as a result of something I overheard one of my students say a few days ago as well […]

There’s a lot of martial arts thoughts bouncing around in my head right now that I would like to write about.  The thoughts that are most on my mind right now are the things that I have learned while in Cincinnati.  My two months are not quite yet over; I have one week left.  Still, […]

If you meet a Master of the Way on the Way, Greet him neither by bowing or not bowing. Over the past few weeks I have been thinking a lot about manners.  As a student of several martial arts, I have come to appreciate that each art has something to offer.  There are no bad […]