Ideas, Practice, Philosophy
BLOG
Ethics
On the Ethics of Force
Capacity is what keeps you out of a fight. But if a fight finds you anyway, how a trained person thinks about proportional response matters just as much.
Philosophy Absorb. Discard. Add.
Bruce Lee said it in one sentence. Most martial artists spend a lifetime not doing it. Here's what actually makes that process work.
Flow State The Zone Is Not a Metaphor
What Csikszentmihalyi called flow and what martial artists call mushin are the same phenomenon from different directions. Neither tradition fully owns it — and that matters.
ASD & Training Training Through a New Lens
An ASD1 diagnosis in May 2025 reframed a lifetime of training — not by changing what I do, but by explaining why it has always worked the way it has.
Ki What Ki Actually Is
Strip away the mysticism and you find something real underneath — something trainable, measurable in its effects, and worth understanding.