by White-Eagle Perry | Dec 4, 2018 | Life Skills, Practice
I just finished reading the 1991 book Mastery by George Leonard, which is another good book about developing skill, whether it’s in the martial arts, or anything you wish learn. He mentions three types of students that look for easier paths, than the long...
by White-Eagle Perry | Oct 30, 2017 | Life Skills, Taijutsu
Because Japan is located on the ring of fire, it is plagued by earthquakes, and has been for centuries. Due to the amount of destruction and loss of lives, the Japanese investigated how to make earthquake proof buildings. What they noticed were many of the old pagodas...
by White-Eagle Perry | Oct 8, 2015 | Life Skills
I had found this article very interesting, but mostly looking at #3, Benevolence. What’s really sad in this world is that many that say they have the “warrior” spirit, don’t embrace these philosophies, they tend to take on the “I’m...
by White-Eagle Perry | May 28, 2015 | Life Skills
This evening I was reading in Masaaki Hatsumi’s book Tetsuzan, about the dialect within martial arts, and how it can taint your movements, but we usually don’t recognize that we do have a dialect, so that is where the problem can be located. The actual...
