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To all my friends and family I would like to say that I'm sorry to have been away so long. I have missed you all. It's not easy trying to promote a book while working and providing for your family. Never was that good at it. However, I have devoted all of my time to writing and learning. The first thing I learned was that I needed to learn more about book promotion because I knew next to nothing. I have been training my mind just as I trained my body. Just like my body my brain ached as I tried… Continue

Hello all I have some exciting news. I have recently been looking at the possibility of starting a television show. It would feature diasporic fighting systems. It would have a video magazine type of format that would include interviews, history, culture and techniques. This would be an excellent opportunity to present out culture in our own way and words. It is only tentative at this point but I would like to be contacted by all that would be interested on being featured. If I get the green lig… Continue

i have come to realize as I get older that life is about movement. Life itself is always in constant change. We travel from egg to grave without so much as a second thought but it's what occurs in between that makes the difference. I myself realize that as I grow older and continue to move I learn a little more each day. I am currently 48 and one of the most important things I have learned is not to sweat the unimportant things. The reason this important is because addressing these insignificant… Continue

I have been very busy as of late but I had to take the opportunity to write about something that recently got my attention. As a part of my book promotion, I have been in contact with quite a few writers,martial arts oriented and otherwise. I recently had a conversation that pretty much teed me off and I felt compelled to write about it. When speaking with someone that has what I consider to be a very large influence within the writing sphere of martial arts, The question of tradition came up. T… Continue

When I teach people to become warriors it is impossible to separate them from their spiritual nature. It is our intimate relationship with God that gives our lives focus and direction. Without this direction we are no more than human scud missle's full of destructive potential with an unpredictable nature feared by both the good and the evil. This is not Gods way. All of our potential as human beings are contained in our very essence our "seed". Just as an oak tree starts out in its seed form an… Continue