For a while, I would be slightly offended if people didn’t make the effort to remember things I had already told them. Or if a friend wouldn’t check up on me after an injury, or ask about the outcome of a particular stressful event I was nervous for. I’d be Continue Reading
Ana Juvan
Approaches to Training: Old School vs New School
There’s a common school of thought that old-school martial arts training was better because it was more rigorous; maybe you’ve heard (or seen videos) of shaolin monks training in kung fu monasteries in China. Punching and kicking trees or walls for conditioning, meditating outside in freezing temperatures with minimal clothing Continue Reading
Reconnecting with Nature: Respect the World Around You
We have our Tang Soo Do World Championships in North Carolina every other year, and I usually drive rather than fly for ease of transporting weapons and equipment. One thing that’s an added bonus is driving through the beautiful forests and mountains of West Virginia, with scenic views along the Continue Reading
Your Potential is Limitless
I was at a goal setting seminar recently, and they had us do a lot of self-reflective exercises to identify and combat limits we put on ourselves. I’d like all the readers to try this one right now with me. Close your eyes and think about a person in their Continue Reading
Start From the Ground Up
In previous articles I’ve talked about my self-confidence journey, and how it is still far from over. Don’t get me wrong, I have come a long way from the depths of low self-esteem I used to live in, however there are still some times where I feel nervous or not Continue Reading
Be Honest With Yourself
One thing we may do every once in a while, hopefully not always, is quickly glaze over an article and immediately think we know all about that subject. We see this problem, especially in the media, where someone will form an opinion on something based only on one viewpoint or Continue Reading
You Are a Mix of Your Closest Friends
My dad had a couple of sayings as we were growing up that I remember disagreeing with, one was “guys and girls can’t be friends without one of them catching feelings!” Reflecting on it now he might’ve said this to keep me from having a lot of male friends, he’s Continue Reading
Mean What You Say
My mom used to tell us as we were growing up, “never say anything that you wouldn’t want on the front page of tomorrow’s newspaper”. Obviously this is a bit of an exaggeration, and also now outdated as many people don’t read the newspaper anymore! But the meaning behind it Continue Reading
Strongest Muscle
I recently came across a post on Facebook that shared that latissimus dorsi are the strongest muscles in your body. Like everything on Facebook, I took it with a grain of salt, but it got me thinking a little bit about the correlation between this muscle and one of our Continue Reading
Seguida and Contra
In the style of Filipino martial arts I practice, the Defensor Method, they categorize most blocks into two different energies: Seguida and Contra. Contra means “against”, and Seguida means “to follow”. A lot of the time, our first instinct when we think of a block is something that meets the Continue Reading