Sometimes, good teaching is about knowing when to stop teaching.
The calligraphy for “Karate Ni Sente Nashi” hangs at the back of our dojo. It translates, roughly, t...
There's a saying that I've been thinking about lately. I've seen various versions attributed to vari...
Have you ever had a lesson come so perfectly full circle that you can't help but marvel?
As he was about to test for a new rank, one of the students in kids class expressed his frustration ...
Can I learn karate from videos/photos/some other online source?
As I've written previously, Sensei Nagamine talked a lot about Ken Zen Ichi Nyo — Karate and Zen as ...
O-Sensei Shoshin Nagamine’s book, Tales of Okinawa’s Great Masters, delivers on the title by introdu...
As we come up to 2025, lots of folks will think about New Year's resolutions.
Karate concepts in my life I think about karate a lot. Definitely more than 5 years ago when I redis...