Category: Physical Training

Writing Advice: Grappling for Writers: Common Terms

Here’s a sneak peak of some material from my book focusing on bringing authentic grappling and wrestling arts into fiction.
Writing Advice: The Long Road

My writing was hitting a valley rather than a peak and I needed some writing advice. But from a martial arts training partner?
From Fighting to Writing: How Competing in Martial Arts Helps in the Creative Process

The lessons I have learned in my study of martial arts, especially competing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, have made me a stronger writer. Here are the 5 top lessons. Here are the top 5 lessons I have learned competing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu that have made me a stronger writer.
My Influences

Physical training traditions – whether martial or health oriented – are not learned from books, but rather through hands on physical contact and instruction by those who have walked the path ahead of you. In this way, a physical teaching is a direct connection to the earlier adepts in a method or tradition and is…
In Pursuit of Things of No Value

“The only thing that has less value in our society than reading is writing.” Bret Anthony Johnson, Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University To the average person, Mr. Johnson’s comment during a recent talk about his new book at Book Passage may have seemed more like an indictment on his own book and craft…
My Circle

Here is the space in my backyard where I walk the circle and work the pendulum.
The Meaning of My Study of Physical Traditions

Physical training traditions, whether they are Bagua from China or yoga from India or somatic studies from the 20th century, are vehicles for the exploration and refinement for the body and the mind. These methods are maps, sometimes precise and sometimes vague, for the dedicated and persistent practitioner to delve deeper into fundamental questions of…