White Tiger Ramblings: Thoughts While Traveling The Path (volume 1 & 2)

White Tiger Ramblings: Thoughts While Traveling The Path (volume 1 & 2) I’ve had several people recently ask about the past blog posts for White Tiger Ramblings, so I put together the first volume. This book contains the posts from the beginning of the blog in 2009 until December 2013. The paperback price is set […]

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The Monkey Dance

Rory Miller wrote the following as the lead-in to the Monkey Dance. “What you lookin’ at?” barks a young man. He’s about your size, about your age. You don’t think you were looking at anything in particular. You also know the smart thing to do is to give a little apology and go back to […]

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Learning vs Performing

I had a student ask if he could learn the next section of a pattern that he had for his next test. I asked him if his other four patterns were test ready. He replied that they were, so I told him to use them as a warm-up before going further on the current pattern. […]

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If you don’t say it…

“Be equipped, be prepared, be ready I despise MacGyver. He inspired a whole generation of people to believe there was something noble about choosing to be poorly equipped. If you refuse to carry the equipment to do the job, you aren’t a hero. You are an idiot who is willing to sacrifice innocent people (and […]

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