This is how Steven Pressfield describes “The Obstacle is the Way” by Ryan Holiday. Everyone knows Jedi knights are just sci-fi martial...

And on that note, our 2019-2020 Karate season is over. First of all congratulations to all of the students who stuck with karate through...

Congratulations to all of my students! It’s motivating to me seeing everyone training each class. Karate isn’t for when life is easy....

Success!! We ran our first online classes tonight! Thank-you to everyone who took part in these inaugural sessions. It was a little rocky...

Just crushed 12k of the Florida Trail. This shot was from a week ago when I was still psyched for running the ATB 30K. On this run, my...

to write, to sing, to paint, do karate, or whatever. However you finish the sentence, it’s simply not true. This is Resistance talking.

What a fight! Reflecting on Saturday’s main event of UFC 246, here are a few takeaways from a martial artist’s perspective.

Set New Year's Resolutions! Or don't. Instead consider Tim Ferriss' PYR. Regardless of your approach, continue to learn and improve.

The youth senior belt class this week morphed at times into the Ministry of Silly Walks. Students walked around the dojo on the insides...

There was a classic UFC fight Saturday night featuring a Brazilian, Michel Pereira, a showman of WWE proportions. Pereira break danced...

How do we generate power in the martial arts and where does muscle come into play? When we think of ‘power’ formulaically, Power = Force...

One thousand katas is a lot of friggin’ kata! This is my not-so-brilliant observation from our Week 4 challenge: Kata. For a few years...

We are three weeks into our Goggins-Inspired Savage Summer. If you don't know David Goggins, read this blog post, or watch his latest...

The 2019 edition of the May 24 Weekend Iaido & Jodo Seminar was fantastic as always! Sei Do Kai again hosted top instructors from Japan, Gre

This is part two of the Kushindokai April Seminar series. In the adult session, Sensei Michael introduced a handful of kumite / sparring...

What do you do when a fantastic karate instructor visits your dojo for not one but two epic seminars? Well, after admiring the photos and...

I had the privilege of teaching a Tonfa seminar at Orangeville’s Kushindokai Karate club not too long ago. They have a great club. Under...

A huge thank-you to Chris and Aiden Chisholm for the Wrestling seminar last week. Wrestling doesn’t have a belt ranking system, but if it...

This was the question one of my new Tai Chi students asked after class earlier this week. My answer was “That depends on how you train.”...

Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying a great break and is ready to kick 2019 into high gear. Gradings 2018 was a great...