Game Theory

Neil Patrick Harris portrays Carl Jenkins (featured in the banner image) in Starship Troopers (1997). Carl Jenkins demonstrates both a high mathematical intelligence as well as psychic-abilities which, when he signs up for Federal Service, lands him in Games and Theory: military intelligence (replete with SS-styled uniforms). When I saw the Reading List and FinalContinue reading “Game Theory”

JOINT CONTROL

Any martial artist must study the use and limitations of the body; its structure and mechanics – and specifically its joints. (The banner image shows the major synovial joints of the skeletal system.) In Aikido, we are principally concerned with the control of the opponent’s “center” but the techniques achieve this by working from theContinue reading “JOINT CONTROL”