Captian's Log The Nothing That Comes 21 May 2025 Battered and bruised, the fighter stood, his hands tightly clenched as his legs burned with the fire of exhaustion, of long and arduous labor, of meeting their breaking point and…
Captian's Log Three and One 30 Jan 2023 (Author's note: I've been taking some melatonin to help me sleep the last few days. I have found that they have worked too well, and I have been exhausted and…
Captian's Log Ghost of Cain 7 Dec 2022 I have been in one fight in my life, one real fight. I've been in martial arts since twelve or so; I've sparred quite a bit, but that's just play,…
Captian's Log On Writing: The Sky is Blue 20 Aug 2019 I have found people praising certain literary ideas which, to my mind, fail, and not to call out any one ideology, but these ideas are often feminist. They are praised…
Captian's Log How I Knocked Out My Grandmother Using Jujitsu 23 Sep 2017 This evening I tapped out my 90 something Grandmother. I was asked to give her a lesson on some of the differences between Taekwondo, the first martial art I ever…
Captian's Log Awful 13 Jul 2017 Well, I tried something different today. A while back, I wrote Why Martial Arts on my blog, and it’s been one of my most read posts ever, having more than…
Captian's Log Why Martial Arts 25 Jun 201725 Jun 2017 When was the last time I did a post on Jujitsu? Like, two months ago. I must rectify this. So, a little background. Like many, I started my martial arts…
Captian's Log Fencing: Life Lessons 1 May 201729 May 2017 There are many lifelong and deep lessons to be learned from the martial arts, and my one year of fencing holds some of the richest memories in this regard; these are…
Captian's Log Fullness 25 Apr 2017 I have been seeing a nutritionist these last few months and found it surprising that instead of cutting from my diet she adds to it. In a sense I wasn’t…
Captian's Log My Strength 21 Apr 201723 Apr 2017 I was alone in the dressing room pulling off my shirt. Today I felt cold; I was tired; just wanted stay home and sleep. Maybe you'll understand this, maybe not,…
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