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2015 Brotherhood of Veteran Warriors Gasshuku

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Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the 2015 Brotherhood of Veteran Warriors Gasshuku. The BOVW is an organization that was founded by US Military veterans with decades of martial arts experience, for the purpose of providing settings where martial artists from different backgrounds could come together to share and learn. They do not have any sort of curriculum, […]

Styles, Systems and Purity

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This will be a long post, so I apologize in advance, and let me preface this by saying that I do not think I am qualified to “create a style” or anything like that.  This is just a collection of thoughts and observations regarding styles and systems. Anko Itosu, Shuri-Te Instructor Lately I have been thinking a great deal about […]