Boxing: The New CrossFit

Boxing Is Becoming the New CrossFit Walk into almost any city gym now and you’ll see it: the thump of…

Exercise as Religious Practice

Action without meaning produces limited results. If you’re lucky you can hit a target with enough attempts but at a…

Mark Twight is a legend in the climbing world, essentially the punk-rock climber who invented high-speed ascents back in the…

Actually been practicing boxing for almost two years now. During the lockdown I lost my connection to kendo and when…

The noise around us is constant and unappetizing. It fills our heads with volume but also an absurd nothingness. The…

If we’re lucky we have 8 to 9 decades of life. Yet, life seems short to us and even people…

Miyamoto Musashi opened his last testament (later titled the Book of Five Rings or Gorin No Sho) by saying that he raised…

Tsuba (Japanese sword guard) with a man and a monkey in the tradition of Japanese “monkey dancing.” Sarumawashi, literally “monkey…

“The man weary in spirit cannot withstand fate, nor may the troubled mind offer help.” – The Wanderer, Anglo-Saxon poem.