Quote of the Week - 2nd July

Some wise advice to keep your cool.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. 

Baltasar Gracian

Practise on Monday 7th July

The heat last Monday resulted in a change from the planned techniques. Instead we did bokken kata. This coming Monday perhaps we shall practise the promised yokomen-uchi tenkan techniques.

Margaret 

Quote of the Week - 26th June

This quotation should ring a bell!

True martial arts is universal, simple, and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.

Soke Behzad Ahmadi 

Quote of the Week - 20th June

Something encouraging this week.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

Quote of the Week - 11th June

An interesting quotation that I'm not sure that I would agree with.

The martial arts are non-combative because these martial artists think actual fighting doesn't express goodness or mystic insight.

Keith Vargo 

Quote of the Week - 30th May

I think that this quote is supposed to be encouraging!

I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A Edison

Quote of the Week - 23rd May

This week's quote is from Henry Kono.

When a guy runs towards you, you can't think what? why? when?

Henry Kono