"The cave reveals what is inside us,
What we bring into it.
We also take shelter in it for the challenge,
If there is something to uncover."

- Ivan Laucik (1944-2004)

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Shin Gi Tai.... the new text book for the serious martial artists



 
Shin Gi Tai: Karate Training For Body, Mind, And Spirit
Shin Gi Tai's core message is taking personal responsibility for your own karate progress and your life. Discover how to make real progess as a student of a karate dojo. Shin (Spirit) explains the 'self' in karate; Gi (Technique) examines fighting strategies, applications, and kata of karate; Tai (Body) teaches how to strenghten the body for the rigours of karate training. Learn why people spend a lifetime fighting themselves, so they don't have to fight anyone else.
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In my view, Mike Clarke's Shin Gi Tai should be considered a text book not just for the serious Karate-ka, the serious Gojuryu Karate-ka, but for all martial artists. I said this after I only reading the content table, and I am convinced that it will prove to be not just an interesting read, but a text/note book for the reader who is concerned with the learning and the doing part as opposed to the theorising part of martial arts.

A good friend of mine, a Shaolin Kung-Fu practitioner, said this to me: 'You can bring the oyster to the water, but you can't make it drink!'. This book, to me, has a gem-quality-like oyster, not the kind praised for food but the one sought for its pearls. So, the pearl oyster will be out there soon and it's up to you if your pearl oyster will shine by you making the most of its contents. I can't wait till October the 16th to make my martial arts oyster shine!

Judge for yourself!
Shinseidokan dojo: Shin Gi Tai....update!- see table of contents and author's latest update on the book.





Friday, 11 March 2011

To people (and all other beings) of Japan

I am deeply shaked by the disaster caused by the natural distruction that has hit the land and lives of beings in that part of the world.

As some reporter was saying live on BBC News 'nothing (no previous preparation) prepares you for the moment when such disaster hits'. I can not imagine what it feels like when such natural disaster hits the living beings, and so my heart, my thoughts are with those who survived it and those who died in this disaster.

Be strong and keep the faith!


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