Happy New Year, everybody. First month of black belt challenge is over, just another 12 more to go. As for my personal goal I decided to go back to university and do some further education. I signed up at the…

“It’s the end of the year as we know it, and I feel fine!” (borrowed and modified from REM – ‘End Of The World’) Happy New Year! Bye bye 2021 and Hello 2022! It has been a nice holiday period thus far having some…

Merry Christmas everyone and Happy Holidays. Is it the 4th week already? Time is running! My first weeks of my journey went by superfast. Meanwhile I made it to Germany to spend some quality time with my family…

Mountain Meditation Fresh snow and the Sierra so close; I could no longer resist as the mountains were calling. After working this past Monday and going into the dojo solo Monday evening to finish my daily pushups…

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort. Joe Hyams, Zen in the Martial Arts You know what is difficult? Meditation. I have to admit, my first thoughts were that…