Walking With The Tengu

Japanese martial arts, traditions, and etiquette is often portrayed as monolithic and homogeneous. The reality is quite different.

Just as there are regional variations in other countries so to is it in these traditions.

Learn how this applies to our martial arts today in this episode.

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Take the training offline with a small book I put together pairing basic physical exercises with short quotes and meditations.

You can find the book here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-krueger/pocket-training-volume-1/paperback/product-e7pqmyv.html

Lies we tell ourselves in the Martial Arts.

Today we look at the Liar Paradox and see how many common statements in the modern martial arts are actually self-contradictory. We also look at how you can use the Liar Paradox against any opponent physically.

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Take the training offline with a small book I put together pairing basic physical exercises with short quotes and meditations.

You can find the book here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-krueger/pocket-training-volume-1/paperback/product-e7pqmyv.html

While looking at a collection of essays called the "Mantis Boxing Articles" might not be your first choice of texts to consider for your martial arts training, unless you do Mantis Boxing of course.

Listen to this latest episode as I relate how a number of the essays infact are deeply useful and insightful for any martial artist.

Take the training offline with a small book I put together pairing basic physical exercises with short quotes and meditations.

You can find the book here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-krueger/pocket-training-volume-1/paperback/product-e7pqmyv.html

When a lord sought to test his bodyguard for consideration to a promotion he put the man to the test. At first the lord thought his bodyguard but after discovered the truth.

Unbeknowst to him, his bodyguard had displayed consummate fudoshin (immoveable mind) while also protecting his lord's honor.

Find out what this means for the modern martial artist in today's episode.

Take the training offline with a small book I put together pairing basic physical exercises with short quotes and meditations.

You can find the book here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-krueger/pocket-training-volume-1/paperback/product-e7pqmyv.html

What does ancient Greek myth have to do with classical Japanese martial arts training concepts? Listen to the story of Hermes stealing Apollo's cattle to find out.

Take the training offline with a small book I put together pairing basic physical exercises with short quotes and meditations. You can find the book here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-krueger/pocket-training-volume-1/paperback/product-e7pqmyv.html

What does ancient Greek myth have to do with classical Japanese martial arts training concepts? Listen to the story of Hermes stealing Apollo's cattle to find out.

Take the training offline with a small book I put together pairing basic physical exercises with short quotes and meditations. You can find the book here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-krueger/pocket-training-volume-1/paperback/product-e7pqmyv.html

What does ancient Greek myth have to do with classical Japanese martial arts training concepts? Listen to the story of Hermes stealing Apollo's cattle to find out.

Take the training offline with a small book I put together pairing basic physical exercises with short quotes and meditations. You can find the book here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-krueger/pocket-training-volume-1/paperback/product-e7pqmyv.html

What does ancient Greek myth have to do with classical Japanese martial arts training concepts? Listen to the story of Hermes stealing Apollo's cattle to find out.

Take the training offline with a small book I put together pairing basic physical exercises with short quotes and meditations. You can find the book here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-krueger/pocket-training-volume-1/paperback/product-e7pqmyv.html

How does Greek myth gives teach us the same symbolic lesson on mastery as a Japanese martial arts concept? Listen to the story of Hermes stealing Apollo's cattle to find out.

Take the training offline with a small book I put together pairing basic physical exercises with short quotes and meditations. You can find the book here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-krueger/pocket-training-volume-1/paperback/product-e7pqmyv.html

The twelve labors or tasks of Heracles is a mythic story loaded with a lot of practical symbolism to unpack. In what may be my longest episode to date, I try to pull some meaning from these stories.

Want to dig more into classical Greek myth and symbolism in the context of the martial arts? Check out Tom Billinge's latest book "Palaistra" found here.

Take the training offline with a small book I put together pairing basic physical exercises with short quotes and meditations. You can find the book here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-krueger/pocket-training-volume-1/paperback/product-e7pqmyv.html