by Didact | May 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
A couple of Mondays back, I posted up that awesome David Hasslehoff music video from the internet movie, Kung Fury. That proved to be a bit of a hit. And you can see why if you watch the whole film: I’m not exactly sure how you could get more 80s than that. The...
by Didact | Nov 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Chinese have an interesting relationship with martial arts. In their minds, they pretty much came up with the entire concept – though, of course, being Chinese, as far as they are concerned, they came up...
by Didact | Oct 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
This video here explains in 7 short minutes exactly what it means to be a student of the martial arts, and why every man needs to learn them at some level: That is easily one of the best videos that Lawrence Kenshin has ever made, and he has a long and distinguished...
by Didact | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Reader RB wrote in to ask me some questions related to martial arts, and how to go about choosing the right art for personal training needs: I was reading your blog the other day and ran across the post you have about Vox Day gently mocking the ‘Brazilian...
by Didact | Sep 17, 2019 | fitness, Uncategorized
Do YOU have what it takes to join Her Majesty’s Royal Marines? I’ll be very honest here: I sure as Hell couldn’t have passed that test, when I was 18. I was very fat and quite slow and my cardiovascular endurance was piss-poor. A year and a bit of...
by Didact | Aug 28, 2019 | gym idiots, Uncategorized
Unfortunately my motivation and ability to write anything much of consequence have both been quite poor over the last couple of days, so I’m going to have to dig up an old favourite of mine: As I’ve said before, every single word is literal truth. It is an...
by Didact | Jun 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Simon Sinek takes some time to explain how leadership works properly: He’s right. The single most important quality in your life that will turbocharge it and allow you to achieve great things is not actually talent. It is consistency. You have to...
by Didact | May 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Former UFC middleweight champion, and all-around awesome dude Rich Franklin, offered up some really good insights into what it takes to lose everything that defines you, in the space of just a few minutes: For those of you who don’t know, and/or are not fans of...
by Didact | Mar 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our favourite bald Mormon (but we won’t hold that against him) MMA coach is back with another great set of responses to a viewer’s questions. And once again, he is taking on a certain amount of bullshido generated by another bald martial artist, who goes...
by Didact | Mar 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
I came across a very skilled high-level BJJ black belt, coach, and gym owner who made a lot of very interesting points about why it is necessary to have certain “bully boys” at any serious martial arts school to handle some of the idiots who come through...
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