For those of you who have been Keeping our friend/kung fu student, Robert in your prayers here is an update. At the same time please keep his wife Shanta in your prayers.. She is holding out, but I could not imagine what she is going through. She is also pregnant with twins. I find that this post has me a bit choked up.

Shanta said "Another day. But today I crawled beside my love and took a nap with him amidst all the wires. To hear his heart beat and feel his arms…

As of last night: 

The CT scan for Robert Frisbee showed amazing results. The swelling has decreased dramatically, and the heart seems to begin repairing a tear. They are going to try and push off the surgery for five days. Unfortunately his blood pressure is still high and the CICU has requested no more visitors except family. Please keep those candles lit…

It's Sunday night, and I am getting ready for the next week. What will I teach my students that will impact their lives? I work hard to bring a positive message to all of my students every class. Whether it is the Mighty Monkeys or the Forms class or everything in between. This week I would like to ask all of my students to take on the mission of creating the most positive week possible. This is something that I work at for myself and what I  encourage others to do all of the time. But this…

Tonight I am writing an email that I hope to never have to write again. One of my students ( Robert Frisbee ) is in ICU at Saint Vincent's medical center. He is facing a very dangerous operation to save his life. He is a very young man with twins on the way. Staying alive is the only option that I can contemplate for him. 

I am asking my students to do two things. One, join us in praying, meditating, sending positive energy or just thinking…

We are in the midst of a great battle and most people do not even know that it is going on.This battle is for your health, your families health and the health of the planet.

The bad guys in this battle are very rich and powerful. their agenda is to feed you unhealthy foods and inject you with poisons. As they make Billions (maybe Trillions) by providing the poisons that you ingest or the injections that you accept. The bad guys spend millions to convince you that these foods and…

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” 

― Albert Einstein…

I thought I would do a short post on building up your immune system.  I have seen many many posts of people getting the flu this year.  A lot of them were ones that got a flu shot (which I DO NOT RECOMMEND!!)   But that is for another blog.    

 Building up your immune system, will help you ward off the cold or flu or keep you from getting it.  If the process of building up your immune system to keep colds and flus away is new to you and the remedies below.  Keep in mind it takes time…

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

First, I would like to say I am not a physician and I make no health claims.  I am simply sharing the things that I do to stay healthy.

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The best way to treat a cold, flu, congestion, sinus infection etc. Is to have healthy life style habits.  Good health is, the practice of living healthfully…

This is the Cappadocia region in central Turkey.  It is known for its soft rock that was easily carved out and has been conitnually inhabited for thousands of years.  There are several underground cities, one of which could sustain 15,000 people for several months. The cities were used to hide from invaders.  There were even huge round stones that could be rolled in front of the camaflouged entrances to keep the invaders out.....straight out of Lord of the Rings.…

We are staying in Istanbul. I found a park near our apartment; a great place to do a little triangle drill (need to train to keep the footwork light).  One day I was going through my kicks, and next thing you know there was a young teenage boy beside me.  He started doing the same kicks as I was doing, then he showed me  a "flying front kick?"- obviously something he had…

Here is a little update on my work-outs as I continue to move towards the second forms test. Yesterday I was able to work through each of my first nine forms technically three times working on position and stance. I was then able to do each of my first nine forms as fast as I could seven times each. Today was a rest day and tomorrow will be my staff form work and staff basics. I am landing on a three day rhythm of workout with staff form and basics still at slow speed, then first nine forms…

                                                                                                                                                 This morning, while doing my regular morning routine to get to the Kung Fu school, I strained a muscle/tendon in my hand and forearm. I was already warmed up from the mornings activities. I had been up since about 4:30 AM hunting the…

As easy as falling off a log? I wonder who thought falling was easy? I had a private lesson on falling Tuesday. My mistake  was thinking it would be "easy" to learn to fall. My second mistake was thinking I could do it a few hours before my regular Kung Fu class! I mean wouldn't it be just like a warm up for Kung Fu? No problem! 



Problem! Two days later I am still soaking in Epsom Salts hot baths! When I woke up at night to turn over I had to grab the mattress and grit my teeth as I…

Play time outside is more important for your kids than any academic training they may receive and the ability to play, create and invent is dependent on your child's appreciation of nature. 



Our culture sends it's children into a formal academic situation far too soon. Children are not physiologically ready for these formal settings until the age of about 13. Why? People have many different learning modalities. Some love to learn through touch. This is called tactile learning. Some…

I am really excited about this recipe.  I have heard wonderful things about it's healing properties.  It will  be full of fire and awesomeness.  At this point you are probably wondering what  it is  The recipe comes from Rosemary's Gladstars book, Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, link below. 

Rosemary Gladstar's Book:  Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health…

The days have started to increase in length and now is the time that my farm business begins to yawn and stretch and awaken with the spring! I am naturally a hibernator. If I were an animal I would crawl into a cave somewhere when winter came, all fat from the fall feeding frenzy and stay curled up warm and comfy till spring.  Being Human I am not allowed that luxury! 

I constantly battle with myself to plan and implement things for the coming farm season. I have started the beds in my…

Many martial artists mistake the tool for the task.

Imagine a fine set of wood chisels. These chisels are well made and the owner keeps them sharpened and clean. Ready for use. The owner of these chisels brings friends and family over to look at his beautiful chisels. He puts each chisel in a frame and hangs it on the wall. He may even go so far as to build a shrine around his chisels and worship them.

Like the owner of the fine, high quality, chisels. A martial artist that…

My walk up the mountain today, was a bit challenging.  For those of you who do not know I have MCS.  So, today my body and my mind were having an argument.  As I walked up carrying my back-pack, I must have been in deep thought looking  down at the ground.  I realized that after I got up the first steep mile that I had not looked up once.  It was kind of funny, because all of a sudden I looked up and thought, oh yeah I am hiking up in the mountains and I am missing out on all the beauty…

I detest WD40. It smells noxious, is very toxic and until now I thought a must have on my farm. Especially since I tend to forget and leave my tools exposed to the elements! Bad Choctaw Medicine Woman! I found a pair of my wire cutter/pliers outside and solidly rusted closed. Dang! Then it crossed my mind that DMSO is a solvent. So I went to my medicine cabinet, smeared some DMSO on the aformentioned tool and viola! Not only did it work just as well and as quickly as WD40, there was zero…