No matter where you are in your martial arts journey, your martial arts training is a key element of your journey.  In many ways, the training is the journey because it is the vehicle that transports us from where we are ability-wise to where we want to be with our abilities.  Here are some elements […]

While martial arts is a journey of self-discovery and self-actualization, it is a path that does not always have to be walked alone.  Much benefit can be gained from one’s cooperative training efforts with fellow martial artists.  Having a good regular training partner  can provide extra motivation and insight into one’s own martial journey. What […]

This Wednesday is the day I leave for college. I’ll be living differently, be around much different people (but similar in many ways as well), and I’ll have to get used to a new schedule. Instead of wake up, bathroom, be lazy, eat, be lazy, eat, hang out with friends, eat, sleep… I’ll have a […]

For my title this time around I abbreviated the usual “Worden Weekly Post” and added something more relevant to what I’m going to be talking about. Master Pearson, if you don’t like this format and want me to go back to “Worden Weekly Post #…” then I will. I only changed it to make it […]

Greetings! This week we were assigned a post topic which is an interesting change of pace.  We will each be providing you with a “recipe” so-to-speak on one of the conditioning devices that we’ve been using in our regular meetings.  We got to choose which apparatus we wanted to write on and I’m curious why […]

This week we are giving you “recipes” for the conditioning tools we use at our Hagsaeng Naebu meetings. They are fairly simple and relatively inexpensive to make with materials readily available, mostly from a home-improvement store, plumbing section. The device I chose is small and heavy (we call it “the baby”). I chose this one […]

Many things have gone very well for me this week.  I am readjusting well to Rochester, getting back into a good training routine, and looking ahead to my next steps.  Truly, this has been one of my best weeks in a long time. There’s nothing quite like returning to one’s home ground.  Everything from the […]

My AP classes have finally come to a close! Now I only have a couple of actual classes that I’ll need to do legitimate work in and it feels greeeaaat. I can already tell that the senioritis is going to really start to kick in this last month or so. Ah well. Back to business… […]

For those of you who have read my last post, you know that I am working on strengthening my fundamentals.  Here are a few things that I have learned this week from some of the masters in Cincinnati who have been helping me towards this goal. Below, I have listed a few kicks, and what […]

Allow me to introduce this new type of post that you will be seeing a lot more of on our weblog. From here on out, we, the hagsaeng naebu, will be giving weekly outlines of our own individual practices and training sessions. In addition to giving us hagsaeng naebu and you readers an opportunity to […]