Several years ago, I started a thread on the forums entitled "Skeptics Guide to Global Warming". It has since evolved (or devolved depending upon your point of view) into my personal soapbox. In order to keep things a little more clean in the forums, I have closed that thread and will continue to post information on the topic here in the blogs. If you get the chance to peruse the thread, go to http://www.budoseek.net/vbulletin/sh...Global-Warming... ...
A number of our members have been asking about a way to access BudoSeek from their mobile devices. After looking at a couple of options, including mobile styles, I have decided to implement something on our site called Tapatalk. Tapatalk is a mobile application for your iPhone, Android, Nokia or Blackberry. Windows mobile is currently not supported, but may be in the near future. Tapatalk comes in two flavors, a free app (Tapatalk RO) that gives you "Read Only" access, and a paid ...
That's a very good question, if I do say so myself. During the 20th century, scientists traveled to numerous primitive and otherwise geographically isolated societies to catalog the health of the people therein. One such scientist was a dentist by the name of Weston A. Price. He wrote a book about his travels called Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, and I highly recommend it to everyone who is at all interested in how we got to be so sick and decrepit here in the Western world. ...
Several of you have written posts about how your schools have weathered the economic downturn of the past few years, some even expanding and/or opening up new locations. This is wonderful, and I certainly hope such success continues! Last year, our dojo wound up severely fiscally crippled like so many other businesses, and we closed up the location we’d called home for almost 20 years. The reality is that traditional Japanese jujutsu just isn't in and glitzy enough to compete with ...
There is a common thread in most martial arts that there is a certain way to do things. A way to stand, sit, act, line up. close a door, etc. At least, there is an acceptable one. A lot of this comes from Ogasawara-ryu, a school is credited to Ogasawara Sadamune (14th century CE) who gained favor with the Ashikage shogun named Yoshimitsu and was put "in charge of etiquette". The main documents for this "school of manners" comes from the "Sangi Itto", which later culminated into the ...
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