This Chapter 4 The Wind book of Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five rings

The Fire Book.  This is the 3rd part of the Miyamoto Musashi Book of Five Rings review.  See below for link to YouTube documentary about Japanese Sword Smithing.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxwWf-MfZVk 

Chapter 2 of Musashi's book.  This chapter is a fantastic chapter of a fantastic book.

Part 1 of a 5 part series on The Book of Five Rings by the famous Samurai Miyamoto Musashi.  Perhaps the greatest swordsman that ever existed.  

A bit about a bit.

Went on a little bit of a rant about deviated septum's, doctors, our health care system.  Seemingly not in line with podcast topic, however, this is life.  It's my Kung Fu Life and I think some worthwhile information.  Sometimes it is good to just get a thought out there in the world and let other people hear it.  Maybe they will agree or maybe they will let you know that you are way off base and you need to reconsider your thoughts.  

Everyone faces obstacles in their life.  This is one thought on the process of problem of balancing your life out.

This episode discusses the criteria to needed to be a good training partner.

The Inner Circle student is a level of student that is different than the rest of the class.  It is when the student goes from being a customer to being a true student and Kung Fu guy/girl. 

Excerpt from Wing Chun Compendium and some thoughts on being direct vs being indirect and how it relates to Kung Fu.