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PROGRESSIVE ATTACKS – SINAWALI

This covid-constrained summer of 2020, Master Keating published Comtech Developmental Training, Vol. 1, Sinawali which is an explication of the solo drills that cultivate development, the “IBB Progression.” There are eight drill patterns best learned by using double sticks: BBB III BBI IBB BII IIB BIB IBI (I)nward and (B)ackhand strikes Each pattern is aContinue reading “PROGRESSIVE ATTACKS – SINAWALI”

KINKAKU-JI

In July 1950, Hayahi Yoken, a 22-year old novice monk, set fire to Kinkaku-ji, 金閣寺, the Golden Pavilion. In the smoldering aftermath, Japan confronted the unnerving question: why destroy beauty? At his trial, Yoken showed no remorse, saying only that his “hatred of all beauty” compelled him. Yukio Mishima seized on this confession for hisContinue reading “KINKAKU-JI”

Mining the Moon Redux

In Mining the Moon, I connected the Trump administration’s lunar-mining policy [1] to The Expanse and to Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis – the promise of new worlds opened by the Ring Gates. Would the writers treat these planets as another American frontier, a crucible for expansion and exploitation? The first three episodes of SeasonContinue reading “Mining the Moon Redux”