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I think that the new login change is an excellent idea across the board. It’s always better to be safe than sorry just in case. Thank you for the update, Patrick!!

Well… My wife should be smiling ear to ear now because the Raiders have a new Head Coach… Klint Kubiak!! His team just won the Super Bowl as the Seahawks OC. When asked about being the Raiders HC he said this… "You guys know l'm going to Las Vegas, I'm fired up about it," Kubiak said. ... "Hell yeah, I'm going. Of course I'm going." We will see if that makes any difference for the Raiders next season. I mean, Raiders had the iconic HC Pete Carroll as their HC but the Raiders only won 3 games. Takes a team and not one person. Imho, the Raiders need a better QB and Offensive Line. The Raiders can start by getting rid of Geno Smith. Geno’s 2025 performance was not impressive at all; 19 TD’s against 17 interceptions, and afraid of leaving the pocket. Raiders have the #1 pick in the 2026 draft, Smith is a salary cap casualty, with $18.5 million in potential salary cap savings if he is cut. Sell, sell, sell, sell; trade him or kick him to the curb/bench.

Yes, change is inevitable, that I’m quite aware of, and I accept that wholeheartedly. I’m trying, I’ve been trying to let what killed the SKKA but it’s definitely vexed my soul because I lived it. I continue to live it everyday. While the SKKA was just a thing, an organization, a hierarchy, it was beyond that because that thing was driven by human beings that were like everyone else, faulty in one way or another. Yes, I do have my training and ability through my knowledge and experience. However, that’s not what haunts me everyday. What haunts me is how the death of the SKKA happened…and I didn’t do everything in my power to prevent it. Another bus, as you say, won’t come along because that bus route no longer exists. You are absolutely right…such is life.

Btw,, as a note from Super Bowl 60… No TD’s until the 4th quarter. Also, “First MVP as a Running Back in Years: Kenneth Walker III became the first running back to win the Super Bowl MVP award since Terrell Davis in Super Bowl 32, highlighting a significant achievement for the position.” GO COWBOYS!!

Congrats to the Seahawks for winning the Super Bowl LX in a super way. Seahawks 29 Patriots 13 I’m not going to bore you with who did this and who did that and who didn’t do this or didn’t do that because there’s nothing to really highlight, imho. Seahawks dominated the game from the start thanks mainly to their defense. I’m thoroughly impressed with Walker across the board. Patriots didn’t score until late in the game but by then, it was too little too late. Seahawks sacked Maye’s 7 times to Patriots with 1 sack. 3:09 remaining in the 2nd quarter!! That’s when the 1st flag occurred on Patriots #66 for False Start…right after the commentators were talking about there was no flags yet. Game, for me was boring because of its one-sided theme. About the most boring Super Bowl I’ve ever watched. Bad Bunny halftime show was, well, ok. I was shocked when halfway through the halftime show Lady Gaga sung 1 number, for me, that was strange to see Lady Gaga play second fiddle to Bad Bunny, but that’s my opinion. Ist half highlights: NONE What the 2nd half needed: To wake up the sleeping Patriots. Until next Super Bowl…. GO COWBOYS!!

Congrats @KarateKen

Here we are!! Super Bowl LX Sunday!! ESPN Analyst has this game as such: Seahawks 60.0% Patriots 40.0% Both teams have a 14-3 record this season!! I don’t see how they came up with that prediction. I’m hoping for a close battle on both sides of the ball and not a one-sided fight. Seahawks 21 and Patriots 20. Because I lost a bet to my friend, Dwight, I pick Seahawks for the win. I hope not because if the Seahawks win, I have to call the Seahawks and not the Buzzards for 2 years…aaaarrrrggggghhhhhhhhh!! I got all of my Super Bowl food and snacks ready. My wife, Linda, and our son, Nathan, and myself are as ready as we can be. Speaking of food. I read a Fox 8 article that spoke about a Super Bowl Hamburger that feeds 4 people…it’s the $180 LX Hammer Burger…if it’s split 4 ways, that’s $45 each!! It weighs a whopping 3.5 pounds. Can’t wait to see all of the commercials and my wife can’t wait to watch the Kitty Bowl and Puppy Bowl!

Preserve?!? What I’ve learned?!? In what regards?!?

Congrats Kenneth for his 3rd place finish!! You might’ve mentioned this before but are these tournaments only local or regional or state or national or all of the above?!? Are the tournaments sponsored through the school or through a club or all of the above?!? Only ask because I can only imagine if these tournaments involve outside of the locality that you must have done a ton of traveling which could be quite costly for you and Vicky. My tournament days were primarily local and regional and state. I did do a lot of traveling both as a minor and as an adult. When I was a minor I never went beyond regional and tried to do just local to save my mom money. As an adult I was all over the state with an extremely rare tournament outside of California. Traveling to tournaments put a dent in my wallet and a lot of miles on my car.

I love how the NFL is in the business of being quite random across the board?!?

I’ll tell my wife because she loves that genre immensely. Thank you, Patrick!!

Normally?!? No. Just occasionally. You?!?

Collectively?? No. Separately?? Possibly. Individually?? Hopefully. The attainability of peace amongst us Shindokanists is a highly complex as well as debatable issue. Shindokan techniques are not meant to earn points or trophies or things of ego but to end confrontation. This was what the latest hierarchy of the SKKA wanted, and that thought was completely alien to the entire student body because that was not what Soke and Dai-Soke/Kaicho taught us. We fought hard against the latest hierarchy changes because their leadership was laced with conflict, war, chaos, violence, turmoil, and unrest; pick any one of these antonyms that suits best. What we were exposed to was tension, disorder, and hostility at their leadership. Shindokan means “The House of the Heart Way”, under the SKKA new leadership, both the Way and the Heart was broken, and the infrastructure of the House that once stood, quickly collapsed. Our Soke lived in a time of Okinawa when karate wasn’t taught openly, not structured for mass learning and not separated into styles. My Soke only had one core student, the rest of us Shindokanists, once he moved to the USA, were students under the then his assigned Kaicho, with the Soke’s every watchful eye, diligently overseeing our every move. Whenever Soke did teach us, it was understood that we were not his students directly. I never really understood Soke’s mind set regarding us. After all, Soke and his student came to the USA to establish first his dojo, then established the SKKA in the USA, accepted USA students, promoted USA students, and accepted money from USA students but treated us USA students from afar. We had to go through Kaicho in order to speak directly to Soke; not many got that close, especially at first. Even the chosen few of us that were eventually accepted by Soke were still not his students at all. Shindokan didn’t spread widely. Soke had no desire to build a large organization, nor did he aspire for a global federation. Soke didn’t adapt to competition or sport, but in refusing to change, he preserved something rare, to separate Shindokan from the modern trappings. Is the Shindokan heart still there?!? Let me give it to you straight face to face…has Shindokan really disappeared, just another dying style?? Ever since the Shindokan civil war, and the permanent collapse and closure of the SKKA for cause, the disbandment reached at its peak, the Shindokan dojo network splintered, more like an implosion that not one dojo survived intact as before, but more like a leper colony going our own martial art way. Since the closing of the SKKA, the last hierarchy of the SKKA have been ostracized, and we’ve cast them off to such a degree that to us Shindokanists, they never existed. I still keep in touch with the student body as well as many Senior Dans but not as often as I would have hoped for. We all have truly gone our own way!! My own memoir has stalled once again because a memoir is not the place to write for revenge. What the last hierarchy did still hurts, and like a festering wound, it might never heal. The fact that there will never be peace as far as the SKKA is concerned haunts me unceasingly and weighs heavily on my heart. What’s done is done, and there’s nothing that can be done to change neither the scope of the situation nor the final outcome. But for the love of me, I just can’t shake this thing of profound sadness and remorsefulness that’s taken a permanent residence in my mind.

Raiders are going to need more than a HC, even from the ranks of the Seahawks because he won’t have the talent of the Seahawks. Hopefully the Raiders won’t squander their draft picks.

Martial Arts aside, and as important that MA training is, and you know you’ve got my support across the board, the death of your friend and that situation that surrounds, you can only do whatever you can do, and no more!! Hopefully, the 3 of her youngest will be living together soon.