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I’ve given it a lot of thought to writing my memoir before. However, some can write and some can’t; I’m of the latter. Ghost writers are not cheap!!

2.5 hours sleep last night!! Sheech!!

I do greatly appreciate and respect what all of you have said, means the world to me. You’ve all gave me somethings to seriously consider. In my mind, as feeble as it is, my not being able to do what I’ve been trained to do is quite inexcusable and unacceptable for me. I want to pass away like Morihei Ueshiba did…he was teaching on the day he died; he was giving a demonstration in Tokyo…he was on the floor. Yes, I can teach but I don’t want to do it from a wheelchair. Call me unreasonable…call me pig headed…call me despondent…call me what you will. I’m not giving up, no matter how despairingly I might appear to be, I need to learn how to chart a new found course and not to allow my limitations limit my abilities on the floor.

Now I’m on book 2 of the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy…”The Two Towers”

Are applications included??

Studies show that the average person sleeps 8 hours. Hhmmm!! Oh, now I’m not average?!?

3-4 hours. My goal is 6-7.

Seems to me that the Stars will face the same fate as my Knights against the Oilers when the ice melts. Oilers just might end up winning the whole shebang when all has been said and done.

My Karate is in my heart…My Karate is in my mind…But my Karate is no longer in my body. What good am I as a martial artist or as a karateka if my body has some serious limitations due to medical conditions?!? My prostate cancer greatly affected my spine at my T12 and L4. Yes, my cancer is in remission, Praise God, unfortunately the damage has been done. Due to the damage to my spine, I can’t stand very long, a minute at the most, nor can I walk very long, a few feet, at best. Being a martial artist is all that I’ve ever been for 6 decades…the only thing that I ever loved…the only thing that I was ever good at. Now, because of my wrecked spine, I'm no longer effective on the floor, wherever that floor might be at. My students have always been everything to me!! “Martial arts is not just about physical strength; it’s about mental and emotional strength as well.” – Unknown Those aren’t just some idle words to me because I believe in them. Nowadays, I deeply struggle with those words daily despite what others have encouraged me on. My martial arts, my Karate-do, has been ripped away from me unceremoniously and it’s very difficult for me to cope with that fact.

Brian, I think your MA library might give Bruce Lee’s MA library a run for its money!!

There’s something else that’s important to any music tempo and rhythm of kata is the timely crash of the cymbals, aka, BREATHING. One surely doesn’t want to be out of breath at the end of said kata. There’s no use to have timing and rhythm in your kata if you’re going to be out of breath. One must control their breathing!! No kata has the exact same timing and rhythm and breathing from move to move. All 3 have to be controlled accordingly kata to kata. The more demand of said kata, the more control of timing, rhythm, and breathing. The more complex movements the more oxygen one’s going to need. Proper breathing will show up within any said kata at the moments of the kiai. Ever heard a kiai that’s out of breath?? It’s not a pretty sound; wheezing out a strain kiai. Timing…Rhythm…Breathing…these are at the core of any kata’s music score. Control…Focus…Conditioning…these are the notes to the kata’s symphony. Imho.

Oh what a tangled web we weave whenever we…keep messing with the darn thing; if it ain’t broken stop trying to fix it. Imho!!

Since my Knights were demolished by the Oilers, my interest in the NHL anything as waned, however, depending on which teams end up battling for the Stanley Cup, like if the Stars, for example, reach to the championship games, I might watch. No Stars…no interest…Stars…will watch!!

I agree with what you’ve saying about the tush push, Brian. It’s a very effective and smart play. Whatever team is wanting it banned, perhaps they’re just ineffective at preventing it and/or ineffective in making it effective for them. I also agree with you, Brian about the playoff seeding because a team with 9-8 should not guarantee a home game. A team with a minimum record of perhaps 12-5 or better should earn that home game seeding. I also agree with you, Brian about the onside kick ruling. I got a tickle by the “not at the 35 yard line, but at the 34 yard line” like that’ll make a big difference. Having it like how it’s done in the UFC would be interesting. I like the BOTH teams will possess the ball in overtime rule. Many major professional sports give both teams an equal opportunity to win!! MLB games, for example, in extra innings, are not over until a decided winner is decided at bottom of said inning and not at the top is said inning. NBA OT games, for example, aren’t decided until the OT clock time runs out and whichever team is ahead at the OT buzzard, that team is the winner. I also like the NFL rule how it “expands use of replay assist”. Teams now can review hits on a defenseless player, grabbing the facemask, performing a horse-collar tackle, tripping and running into or roughing the kicker. However, for those penalties to be reviewed, a referee has to throw a flag right at said play, and not at the insistence of a coach. GO COWBOYS!!

My most sincerest condolences for his family, friends, players, staff, and to all of the Colts nation.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien Love how Hollywood takes libertines, as it’s their right to do so, I suppose, away from what was written in the book vs what was in the movie. Example: The conversation between Gandalf and Frodo when Gandalf was coming into the Shire.

Congrats @ryanryu; well deserved!!

I don’t think that we’d ever see a PPV SB because the SB In itself generates quite a lot of money to go around to make whatever company happy. BUT…one never knows.

Where talking about keeping a distance at all costs, if possible. Last Friday, at around 1:35pm, here in North Las Vegas, at a gym, there was a mass shooting where a manager of the gym was killed, and several others were injured. The manager worked at that gym for 15 years. Yesterday morning, channel 5 showed a clip. In this clip, it shows the shooter walking into the gym and he was carrying what looked like a military rifle. As the shooter is entering the gym, a male customer of the gym is walking by the shooter on the shooters left. Mind you, the shooter paid no attention to that customer at all, shooter even told the two female employees standing behind the check-in counter that they better hid “because something’s about to happen bad”. That male customer that walked by the shooter KEPT HIS DISTANCE from the shooter by leaving out the front door quickly, but before he exited the gym, he quickly looked over his left shoulder at the shooter. The shooter and the male customer were not that far away from each other as they passed by each other. Shooter was shot by the police outside of the gym entrance; shooter died later at the hospital .

Yes, not just for BJJ. Few exceptions, like, Lt. and above, perhaps?!?

Not a bad idea!! Thanks, Brian!!

When I owned/operated my dojo full-time, I’d train each morning several hours before my first class of that day. Often times, I’d squeeze in some training between classes. Most of the time, if I wasn’t going to be teaching on the floor, I’d be taking care of my daily duties, whether it be paperwork, making phone calls, working in my MA supply store, or who knows what. That’s why I always insisted to my students and instructors that there’s ALWAYS time in the day/night to squeeze in training. No practice makes a MAist very dull.

Are you in favor of the departments making BJJ mandatory?? I agree that the department should find the BJJ instructor AND pay for the training. Which if I’m not mistaken, anything made mandatory as far as training is concerned must be paid for by the employer, or at least claimed/written off in one’s tax return form.

Surely the GB that I was a member of forever and a day isn’t the only GB of the MA that closed their doors forever. In the end, ours was a victim of internal civil war and tumultuous unrest within its higher hierarchy. It bleed out slowly after our founders both passed away, and after I was no longer its president. What MA Governing Bodies that you’re aware of that have permanently closed their doors.

I know it’s bad of me, the way that I am when it comes to being a fan of sports, but more than not, I’ll lose interest of whatever is going on in whatever the playoff might be once the team I support is knocked out of the playoff and so on. My Knights have been knocked out of the playoffs, so I’ve no more interest in the NHL playoffs. Like I said, I know it’s bad of me to be that way!! Will I watch the Stanley Cup?? Depends on who’s playing.