I am still thinking about geometry of martial arts. I find it helps to think about geometry on three scales. The broadest scale, the geometry of the space and how the two bodies are moving in the space, and using the space around the bodies to their advantage. The...

If you do martial arts for health then at some point you will come across the topic of meditation. There is a lot of hype out there, so here are three things today's research in neuroscience has offer about contemplative practices: 1) It takes 10,000 hours. Meditation...

These are the things I think about when I think about how to use my breath: Athletes exhale on a jump to maximize height or distance Sharp-shooters hold their breath and pull the trigger between heartbeats to steady their arms. Your diaphragm relaxes on the exhale and...

This is a beginner class in Tiger. The students in this video have about three weeks experience.  Tiger emphasizes the large muscle groups of the lats, chest, quads, glutes and shoulders. The clip highlights a little intro to ground kicks, with drills...

"The triangle, circle, square..." is a phrase I have encountered in a few martial arts. In Aikido, it captures entering (piercing like the point of a triangle), redirecting (circle) and grounding (like the stable base of a square); in kung-fu it relates to heavenly...

I had a carpentry teacher in theater school who explained, while we were building a set of stairs, that the nails were just there to hold the wood in place until the glue dried. We were all surprised, of course, because how could the white syrupy glue we used to...