Anger
Bruce Lee “Emotional content,” Bruce Lee tells a student practicing a side kick in Enter the Dragon. Martial artists strive to re-channel emotions, like anger, fear and frustration, to amplify the power of a strike or kick, or when breaking a brick or throwing an attacker. The kiai or “spirit shout,” for example, is a [...]
“There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you…“ ~ Charles Bukowski Chains We are all vulnerable to life and all of its cruelties, experiencing a range of emotions: fear, anger, sadness, shame. Even [...]
, “I cultivate a rose in June and in January For the sincere friend who gives me his hand And for the cruel one who would tear out this heart with which I live I do not cultivate thistles nor nettles I cultivate a white rose…” What are you cultivating in your martial art practice? [...]
