by Sifu Stephen Cottrell | Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
My training partner and I face each other across the field. In his hands is a staff. But it is being held as if one were fighting with a rifle bayonet. In my hands is a two-handed sword. It has an extremely wide blade. Suddenly, my partner springs...
by Sifu Stephen Cottrell | Dec 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Many years ago, I was walking through the gym when I came upon someone I had met while visiting a local Karate school. “Hello!” I said. “How are things at your school?” He shook his head and said, “I don’t train there anymore. I realized that...
by Sifu Stephen Cottrell | Nov 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
I am on the roof of the school, hidden by the privacy walls that surround that level of my building. Half of the second floor of my school is my apartment, the other half is my garden. I am often there, among the trees and plants in my container garden,...
by Sifu Stephen Cottrell | Nov 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
The two men face each other across a path. It is one man’s assignment to guard the path, the other’s assignment to take it. They maneuver, each seeking an opening in the other’s defenses. The man guarding the path is holding a spear, known among the...
by Sifu Stephen Cottrell | Oct 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
My hands move around me. They spiral and turn performing the shape of the Yin Yang symbol. As they do, and I turn horizontally from the waist; I can feel the area of the Dan Tian, (abdominal muscles), making circles. My legs are creating rotational energy,...
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