martial arts: Fear
- 03/18/08 06:43 AM
One of my martial arts instructors sent me the following quote a while back: "Fear is your friend, panic is your enemy. Fear will help you get to your goal faster. Panic will either shut you down or send you down an inappropriate course of action for the situation. Unfortunately 'fear' has a bad rap. It has been confused with panic in many self-defense programs, and the resulting goal is to train for 'no fear', this is a mistake! Fear is a motivational message. Even under frightening conditions, a person with enough experience and the … (32 comments)
martial arts: Who?? MeME!
- 07/23/07 03:38 AM
Last night, I got back from a send-off party for a friend who's heading out for a four month tour of duty in Iraq and found out that courtesy of Patricia Kennedy, I'd been Meme'd! It’s not easy to pick just 5 things, but here goes: 1. CATAPULTED OFF AIRCRAFT CARRIER: I’m one of only very few civilians who has been catapulted off of an aircraft carrier. In college, I was part of a seminar program called National Decisions Program in Foreign Policy. Our professor was friends with many high-ranking military and arranged several very interesting class trips for us. His … (34 comments)
One of my martial arts instructors sent me the following quote a while back: 
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