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"Never give a sword to a man who cannot dance.” Or at least Confucius is reportedly said so, though this quote is more likely apocryphal than genuine. If he had did indeed written this, Confucius would have no doubt have been using it as a metaphor for not placing someone in a position they are not qualified to fill. If we take this idea literally, then Confucius probably would have actually meant dancing when asked whether or not to trust someone with a Jiàn. Though probably not the sort of dancing you are thinking of. Confucius lived during the later Zhou dynasty (ca. 551–479 BC). During his life, and in many dynasties to come, “Sword Dances” were performed as ritual. The term Jiànwǔ (劍舞, literally, sword dance) was also used to describe the forms used to train soldiers. Minority peoples also practiced war dances to prepare for combat. These ritual court and religious dances required a high degree of precision, flow, and intent. Which is to say nothing of good body mechanics. As do forms practiced by large numbers of men at arms at close quarters when drilling. It then follows that if one is unable to “dance” well with a sword in hand, then it is also unlikely that he’ll flow well in swordplay. Consider if one cannot flow deftly, without hesitation, from one movement to the next in sword forms, or hesitates, rather than moving seamlessly from deflection to cut as one intent, then how can one expect to “dance” smoothly, like a swimming dragon, following and fluidly countering when one’s duifang’s sends blows are raining down?

Lack of preparation in the form of forms (“dances”), training in the Basic Cuts, partner drills, and a methodical progression from fixed step to moving swordplay practice, often results in the sort of slapping together of blades during swordplay derided by past sword teachers. One example from the manual, Zǐwǔ Jiàn by Huáng Hànxūn, advises, “Don’t mutually strike (swords) together at the same time…” And the Yang Family Taijiquan Skill and Essential Points by Huang Yuanxiu records, “The sword is never easy to pass down. Straight forward and back is incomprehensible. If you fake it, cutting like a saber, the old immortal Sanfeng will laugh to death.”

From a modern point of view, if you can’t “dance,” you should at least be cautious about jumping right into swordplay. Dancers move with the rhythm and flow of the music, and with their partners. They intuit the flow and use movements they’ve practiced to follow that pattern. Sounds a good deal like swordplay. If one hasn’t yet learned to “dance” beautifully through the sword form with the same sort of focus and intent of the ancient sword dances, don’t expect to flow with the duifang’s cuts as they rain down, it could be fairly easy to fall into the error 

The fix is easy- Practice sword forms as if there’s a duifang there doing his best to cut you. Visual his movements and move with them. Train with a historically accurate sword to avoid misconceptions that arise from light weight, improperly balanced “weapons.”  Practice your form mindfully to perfection and you’ll see a difference in your swordplay.

~Scott M. Rodell

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Just Some Weeds… Found growing in a pot left out over winter. A native, wild violet and moss. Repotted to accompany trees also living in pots.

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A bid for Black Sabbath bravado in “Friday Night Lights”

Within the pilot episode of the masterful mid-’00s teen drama “Friday Night Lights,” we’re presented with two best friends. There’s the all-American, wholesome good boy, Jason Street (Scott Porter) -- the star quarterback of the Dillon Panthers, with little else but a bright future glistening in the crosshairs of his steely focus. And then, there’s his lifelong pal, Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) -- a lovable party boy who turns up to practice with vodka on his breath, and who has seemingly accepted the inheritance of a dead-end future from his deadbeat dad. If Lux Lisbon would have survived “The Virgin Suicides” to have a kid with Trip Fontaine, it would have grown up to be Tim. 

Set in the small town of Dillon, Texas, the two teens occupy vastly different corners of the pigskin pressure cooker within which they exist. Nice guys like Street do well a place like Dillon, and he has everything going for him -- incredible career prospects, a head cheerleader for a girlfriend, and the entire town’s adulation. 

Meanwhile, Riggins is shown to be a reckless rogue, forgiven for his sins only because of how great he plays ‘ball -- and how much the ladies love him. You can see him souring between scenes and his burnout feels inevitable and overdue -- living with his brother amidst a blur of blondes and beer bottles, with nary an emotion in sight. While Street trains and studies and earns his place on the pitch, Riggins emerges with all the discipline of Iggy Pop on a stage full of broken glass -- raw and wounded, he takes whatever fire might fuel that inevitable burnout and pours it like kerosene onto the field. 

At a Panther’s Party hosted at Garrity’s Automobile -- the hottest ticket in town, folks! -- Dillon’s mayor, Lucy Rodell, squares up to Street to tell him some home truths. “You’re a nice boy,” she tells him. “And you got great manners.” And while he’s politely Yes ma’am-ing it up in response, she cuts to the chase. “Knock it off. You can't go into the game tomorrow night like that,” she proclaims. “Carpet bomb 'em, you understand? ...  Chew 'em up, spit 'em out.”

A closeted lesbian who clearly knows her way around unleashing a certain amount of repressed energy wherever she can, Rodell recommends that he listen to the early work of Black Sabbath, assuring him, “It’ll make you mean.” Boys can’t be soft and nice. Winners have to be mean and gristly. The survival of the town depends on this mentality: It chugs at a fountain of toxic masculinity and it lays waste to those who cannot swallow the broth and conform. 

During an episode of the podcast, “It’s Not Only Football: ‘Friday Night Lights And Beyond,” Porter revealed that the sequence wasn’t scripted. But it certainly sets up the tone for the rest of the episode, if not the rest of the show. After all, it was Black Sabbath who performed, “Killing Yourself To Live” in 1973, with singer, Ozzy Osbourne -- a good boy who arguably had to make himself mean to survive -- singing, “How people look and people stare, well I don't think that I even care. You rot your life away and what do they give? You're only killing yourself to live.”

And while the song’s lyrics may be about the hollow nature of the music industry, the song could certainly apply to a small town community that rests all its hopes, fortunes, and futures on the score card of a teenage sports team -- no matter the cost. 

That certainly feels true when Street becomes paralysed after experiencing a catastrophic spinal injury during a tackle on game night. The Rodell scene might have been played for laughs, but it lurches back into focus like a harsh foreshadowing: Was Street too nice? Too polite? If he would have been tougher, meaner, nastier, would his body have experienced the impact of another body differently? Would he have been protected by the dark arts of Black Sabbath?

Obviously, the answer is no. As Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) reaffirms to Street, his team, and just about anyone else who needs to hear it, the tragedy was blameless. Unfortunate but unavoidable. Life is cruel. Unpredictable. Much of “Friday Night Lights” pivots around this problem -- like a coach drawing up the strategy of an upcoming game, you have to decide how you’re going to play against the obstacles of being alive. 

Alas, though apt, “Killing yourself to live” isn’t the mantra of the Dillon Panthers, but rather the searingly motivational, “Clear eyes, full heart, can’t lose.” Like much of the storytelling on “Friday Night Lights,” the team motto doesn’t just apply to football -- it’s also a sturdy life affirmation that just about anyone in need can scribble onto the desperation of their morning journals. It’s a statement that urges anyone who can pay attention to it to remain sweet and vulnerable in the face of adversity. You’ll be dealt tough tackles, the mantra insists, but don’t lose yourself in the pursuit to overcome them. 

Ultimately, it’s a mantra that suggests that softness, sweetness, and niceness can also create winners -- but it’s all about strategy. It’s no good being soft, sweet, and nice if you don’t how to apply those qualities properly. Alas, the universe -- and other people -- are generally not so kind. Make yourself too pliable, and life will contort and reshape you into something you may not recognise -- or at the very least, may not want to recognise.   As the show progresses, it becomes evident that much of “Friday Night Lights” also pivots around the “Can’t lose” aspect of that mantra. Say it isolated, without the eyes and the heart, and it sounds desperate -- almost deranged. For many of the male characters, their arcs in the show center around how they reckon with failure, tragedy, and defeat: What loss does to masculinity and how others perceive it. 

For Street, it hardens him. But it’s earned. 

During an appearance on “It’s Not Only Football,” the showrunner of “Friday Night Lights,” Jason Katims, revealed that in the development of the show, he was drawn to the idea of producing stories about marginalised people. “There were very few shows at the time -- or movies for that matter -- that really looked at real small town America [and that were] about people that weren’t privileged,” he explained. “Television, even the good television, was really about privilege.”

In the world of “Friday Night Lights,” all fortune is predicated on football. If you’re within the vicinity of the ball, then you wield a certain amount of privilege. Whether you’re a player, a coach, a financer, or a loved one of any of these people, then you probably have a little of power to leverage within Dillon. But that isn’t to say that this power is versatile or something that can be wielded within the real world.  After all, it becomes quickly apparent that being a part of the game doesn’t protect any of these characters from the indignities of prejudice. Nor does it salvage against the sort of failure that becomes of a person who isn’t equipped with the same access to opportunities as those with more privilege.

With the exception of a sacred few well-to-do, able-bodied white folk in the show, “Friday Night Lights” is populated by characters who are weighed down by obstacles related to poverty, abuse, race, gender, addiction, homophobia, and disability. However, part of the show’s charm is how it centers on these characters not so much overcoming these obstacles, but rather rising above the prejudice and bullshit of it all so they can figure out how to live their lives on their own terms. Even if that means leaving small-town Dillon, Texas -- and the team -- in the process.  

In the pilot episode, Street is presented as being perhaps the most privileged person in Dillon. His parents appear to be happily married and of a fair, stable income. He’s straight, able-bodied, athletically gifted, good looking -- and, impossibly, almost ridiculously humble about all of it. But with one injury, much of that changes. He’s forced to reckon with being paraplegic while watching his family’s savings and income be stripped to the bone due to medical expenses and rehabilitation. 

He’s reconfigured by the community that once heralded him a hero, and he loses access to almost all the corners of the world and the people that meant anything to him: His game, his girlfriend, his best friend. 

While Street reconfigures his idea of masculinity -- featuring some bold declarations about simply being a cripple who wants to listen to Nirvana, moooom -- and toughens up in the process, Riggins stops fighting his emotions, and softens up, instead. When Street becomes paralysed, something inside his best friend breaks open and for episode after episode, he lets life pulvarise him into a tender steak of emotional frailty -- and it’s rare that he ever gets a swing in, himself. It’s a far cry from the beer chugging emo-void of episode one. Regardless, although Street accepts a tougher interior, he nevertheless maintains his heart. He might speak up for himself more now, but his actions are rarely cruel or without merit. 

The character arcs of “Friday Night Lights” lean against this same principle again and again -- the people who prevail aren’t necessarily the ones who give in to the impulse to strike back and be spiteful or seek vengeance. But rather, its those who allow themselves to be vulnerable -- who take the hits without striking back and who rise above, soft and strong. Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose. 

But there’s someone who can put this far better than I ever could. At the end of the pilot episode, Coach Taylor makes a rousing speech to his wounded team. They’ve just watched their friend and teammate be carried off the field, his parents and girlfriend screaming from the rafters. Pushing their feelings aside, they were forced to continue the game and not lose sight of the goal. 

“Life is so very fragile. We are all vulnerable. And we will all, at some point in our lives ... fall. We will all fall,” he tells them. “We must carry this in our hearts, that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and that when it is taken from us, we will be tested ... It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.”

Crucially, “Friday Night Lights” hangs its cap upon the stern fist pumps of this speech. It’s a sentiment that offers the reminder that nothing is owed, and everything is earned. Mayor Rodell had it wrong when she encouraged Street to get mean and obliterate the opposition. What the show suggests is that the only path to true success and accord is to leave yourself open to being the one to get chewed up and spat out by life, not the other way around. The victory can be found in however you emerge from the other side. It takes courage to be vulnerable -- and to be vulnerable requires a period of transformation.  Even Black Sabbath dropped their meanness and bat-snacking to reckon with heartbreak via a piano-ballad, “Changes”  -- “The world had its evil way. My heart was blinded, love went astray.” Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose, boys. 

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Lateral Progress- Some Thoughts.

I'm an extremely goal-oriented guy. Most of my days are largely dedicated to training, thinking about training, and developing new goals and milestones to hit. While this is admittedly oversimplified (I do a great deal more than just train), it gets the correct vibe.

Amidst three or four martial arts (depending on the week), I also practice Indian clubs, steel mace flow and I do strength training, so there is generally a feeling of mostly continual, somewhat linear progress that underlines most of my days and weeks. That feeling is lovely, self-affirming, and fairly addictive if I'm being honest. It's also a feeling that, when halted, can leave you in a tough spot.

About six weeks ago I had to undergo arthroscopic knee surgery to fix my right meniscus. The poor thing was absolutely shredded, and my doctor had essentially refused to order an MRI for me until I completed two rounds of physical therapy that, despite making my muscles stronger, did nothing to keep the knee from buckling or otherwise being a terrible nuisance. I've spent the past six weeks largely indoors, and that has been...strange...for me. I've been completely unable to train my various martial arts, and I've only just been able to swing clubs again.

It's in moments like these that the feeling of (mostly) linear progression falls away, and the constant dopamine hit of meeting and exceeding your goals becomes a pleasant memory, even though it was ultimately so recent. For someone addicted to training and accomplishment, this can be deeply unsettling, emotionally distressing, and more than a little maddening.

This is when I like to throw myself wholeheartedly into lateral progression, where I begin doing things that I do enjoy, but rarely have time for because my main focus is not currently available. For me, that has meant carving my way through a backlog of books I've meant to jump into for months, but have rarely had the time and energy to do so. Most years I am lucky to read 20 books due to work, training, family time, etc., but I've plowed through about 30 just in the past few months, and I still have 6 weeks of medical leave available to me. How exciting!

Before my surgery I had also gotten pretty heavily into bonsai, and gardening/plants more generally. A few months ago I had no plants whatsoever, and now I have almost 70, and I'm a member of the local bonsai club, spending loads and loads of my free time in the garden, enjoying my leafy new buddies. My girlfriend has gotten in on the fun, too, and she buys even more than I do at the local nursery now.

I have managed to do at least a few things related to my martial practice. While I can't really train, I still show up at the dojo to pick my sensei's brain about little details of the system, and one of my senpai has been incredibly helpful with my training goals, as well. I've been in touch with Scott Rodell (something of a hero of mine in the Chinese martial arts world), and I may be organizing a seminar down here for him soon, and will be pursuing teaching credentials with him, as well.

This lateral progression is painful in many ways because my real joy, my raison d'être, is cordoned off for the moment, but I find great joy in discovering ways to funnel that frenetic, furious energy I usually dump into my workouts and sparring sessions. My muscles are getting weaker and I'm sure my endurance will be trash once I am healed, but once I can train again I will have the additional benefit of all the things I got up to when I had to take my break.

I suppose it all comes off as someone searching for whatever silver lining they can find, but it is what it is.

Cheers.

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Chinese Human Head Saber

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Chinese Swords & Swordsmanship: Taking the On Guard Ready Stance

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                 Way of the Jianke Essential Elements of Chinese Swordsmanship Illustration series for Scott M. Rodell 5th generation teacher and his Great River Taoist Center (est1984) martial art school, Virginia, US              

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New ads aimed at senior Democrats hit Scott's plans for Medicare and Social Security

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Update transfer resmi Premier League musim 2021/2022 pada hari Sabtu (31/7/2021) pagi WIB. Arsenal kembali mendapatkan pemain baru.

Arsenal menuntaskan transfer White pada hari Jumat (30/07/2021). The Gunners disebut memboyongnya dengan harga sekitar 50 juta pounds dari Brighton.

Arsenal memberikan kontrak jangka panjang pada Ben White. Sang pemain akan mengenakan jersey nomor empat.

Sementara itu, Chelsea memutuskan berpisah dengan salah satu pemainnya. Gelandang muda mereka, Conor Gallagher dilepas ke sesama klub Premier League Crystal Palace.

Gallagher akan memperkuat Palace dengan status pinjaman selama satu musim penuh. Ini Ini merupakan peminjaman keempat kalinya bagi Gallagher.

Berikut informasi lengkap seputar pemain masuk dan keluar klub-klub Premier League di bursa transfer musim panas 2021/22 ini.

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Pierluigi Gollini (Atalanta) Pinjaman Bryan Gil (Sevilla)

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Danny Rose (Watford) Bebas Transfer Paulo Gazzaniga (dilepas) Enock Asante (dilepas) Chay Cooper (dilepas) Keenan Ferguson (dilepas) George Marsh (AFC Wimbledon) Rodel Richards (dilepas) Jack Roles (dilepas) Aaron Skinner (dilepas) Kazaiah Sterling (dilepas) Shilow Tracey (dilepas) Juan Foyth (Villarreal) Erik Lamela (Sevilla) Toby Alderweireld (Al-Duhail) Troy Parrott (MK Dons)

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Watford

Masuk

Kwadwo Baah (Rochdale) Mattie Pollock (Grimsby Town) Imran Louza (FC Nantes) Ashley Fletcher (Middlesbrough) Bebas Transfer Danny Rose (Spurs) Bebas Transfer Emmanuel Dennis (Club Brugge) Dapo Mebude (Rangers) Peter Etebo (Stoke City) Pinjaman Joshua King (Bebas Transfer) Vincent Angelini (Bebas Transfer)

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Achraf Lazaar (dilepas) Carlos Sanchez (dilepas) Jerome Sinclair (dilepas) Mamadou M’Baye (dilepas) Ben Wilmot (Stoke City) Ignacio Pussetto (Udinese) Pinjaman Adalberto Penaranda (Las Palmas) Pinjaman Tiago Cukur (Doncaster) Pinjaman Myles Roberts (Concord Rangers) Pinjaman Adam Parkes (Dover) Pinjaman Daniel Phillips (Gillingham) Pinjaman

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West Ham United

Masuk

Thierry Nevers (Reading) Pierre Ekwah Elimby (Chelsea) Armstrong Oko-Flex (Celtic) Bebas Transfer Alphonse Areola (PSG) Pinjaman

Keluar

Oladapo Afolayan (Bolton) Fabian Balbuena (dilepas) Sean Adarkwa (dilepas) Olatunji Akinola (dilepas) Samuel Caiger (dilepas) Alfie Lewis (dilepas) Joshua Okotcha (dilepas) Joseph Anang (Stevenage) Pinjaman Felipe Anderson (Lazio) Nathan Trott (Nancy) Pinjaman

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Wolverhampton Wanderers

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Yerson Mosquera (Atletico Nacional) Louie Moulden (Manchester City) Bebas Transfer Francisco Trincao (Barcelona) Pinjaman Rayan Ait-Nouri (Angers) Jose Sa (Olympiacos) Bendeguz Bolla (Fehervar)

Keluar

Sadou Diallo (dilepas) Cyriaque Mayounga (dilepas) Hong Wan (dilepas) Toti Gomes (Grasshoppers) Pinjaman Ruben Vinagre (Sporting Lisbon) Rui Patricio (Roma) Leonardo Campana (Grasshoppers) Pinjaman Bendeguz Bolla (Grasshoppers) Pinjaman Dion Sanderson (Birmingham) Pinjaman Renat Dadashov (Desportivo de Tondela) Pinjaman

[wren-der]

So I don’t think I realized just how much of a soap opera my game has become until I started working out relationships to add them back to my sims. I mean cheating and inbreeding. My sims are screwed up. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Family Relationships

Tanaka

Ichiro -----siblings//married------- Keiko  [borther Kyo] Minoru Nobu

Tanaka Kyo ------married-------- Milly Desirae [Phillip Han Father]

Alvarez-Mango Matthew ------married------- Aislara

Tyrone - [Sean husband] Kayla

Ichtaca

Guillermo  ----------married-------Florita Luis [Tayrn Hamada Dating] Allison [Theander Malhishay Dating] Everado [Danielle Scott Married] Son Jessie Ichtaca

Ichtaca Carolina [ sister Florita]---------married--------- Rubisel [brother Guillermo] Saul

Greenwood Harley ------married----- Rei Sakura [ Timir Patel Engaged] Kenjiro [ Terri Veradi Dating] Sousuke

Han Phillip ------married-------- Emily [Parents Honey and Masao Hamada Dead] Cassie Christina Desirae [ Phillip/Milly Tanaka Parents]

Han Persephone Han -------married//widowed---------- Devin Han [Dead]

Micah Han [ Esperanza Vidal Rodel Dating]

Phillip [mother unknown]

Michael [mother unknown]

Lochlainn Conner -------married------- Lopita

Blaine Ahsley [Lopita Mother // Alfonso Father Dead]

Lochlainn//Ashley Callum -------married------ Kyle

Jana Shavon

Veradi

Terri [Dating Kenjir Greenwood] ----married//widowed------- Andrei {dead}

Celeste [mother Terri// father Sameh Moreno] Elliot Burov [ Terri's Brother]

Mediana Valerie ---------married--------------- Teodor Leann Sean {father Doug Vidal Rodel   Dead}-------Chandell [Leslie // Lizette] Joel {father Doug Vidal Rodel   Dead} Esperanza {father Doug Vidal Rodel   Dead} Palmira { mother Gabriell Wickerman}

Wickerman Gabrielle -------married//widowed------- Nicholas [Dead]

Sophia Palmira [Father Teodor Medina]

McClelland Karlie ---------married--------- Colby

Lakshmi Kelley [Dating Amala Patel] Barbie

Patel Hinni ----------married--------- Raj

Maahir [Dating Jarrod Hamada] Serena [ Married Michael Han] Timir [Engaged Sakura Greenwood] Amala [ Dating Kelley McClelland] Denny

Wilson Janis --------married//widowed--------Gulliroy

Byron Carrie

Wu Daniel ------------married------------Mindy Brianna

Chong Warren ---------------married---------------Javiera [brother Matteo Torres] Bao

Torres Matteo [sister Javiera Chong]----------married-----------Yvette Eliza [Dating Kristin Carr] Randi

Carr/Han-Hurd   Chin -----------married------------Melissa Kristin [Dating Eliza Torres]

Collins Nakisha Pelly[Dead]----lovers--------Christopher -------------married-------------Rosemarie Omar [mother Nakisha] married Forsyth Cristobel [mother Nakisha] married Pop Pop Walters Frank married Sydney O'Neal Martina

Walters Pop Pop --------married----------- Cristobel Beth Ann [Pop Pop Daughter// Mother Unknown] married Amon O'Neal Milly [Mother Beth Ann O'Neal]

O'Neal Oliver----------married---------James Sebastian [married Christian] Amon [married Beth Ann] Sydney [married Frank Collins]

Malhishay Malfahi------------married----------Vairlahn Ganthor [maried Arundial Malhishay] Theander [mother Arundial Malhishay] Asmodean

Kahale Akoni-----------married-------------Lashanda Kraig Augustine

Okada Satoshi----------married-------------Megumi Yusun

Asako Rin ------------Dating-------------- Sameh Moreno Henry Wilhelm --------------married--------Jared Wilhelm Eva Burger -----------married------------Rosita Burger Sebastian Ueda--------married-------- Miya Ueda

Ruby Rose---------married--------Erin Rose

[rojandale]

Let me join other graduates in this yearly bandwagon of posting graduation photos and speeches, coz why not? I worked hard for this and this is one perfect moment to give credit to whom its due. Right? First of all, I am still overwhelmed of the fact that finally I will be graduating from college. I still can't believe that after 7 long years, I now have something that I am gonna be very proud of. Finally, something that seemed to be the missing piece in my life is no longer missing and is in its place now. Something like a jigsaw puzzle finally solved. Something like me being lost and now found. I must say, this whole 7-year journey in college has been a roller coaster ride for me, it was of fun and good times, misery, struggles, failures, challenges and heartaches, yet I still consider this the best years of my life. This journey made me who I am today, and I wouldn't trade this over anything else. Throughout those years I questioned myself about what was happening with my life, the decisions I made and what exactly should I do. I even questioned God, why me? I must have done something so bad in my past life, but eventually I was able to regain myself. Struggles, hardships, trials, name it, I've had them throughout this journey. It even came to a point that I doubted myself and what I am capable of. I was at the lowest point of my life, I didn't know what to do, I felt pity over myself and insecurities consumed me. And so this is why I come up with this post to personally thank those people who truly believed and supported me all the way. I would never have been able to make it if not because of you all. This is a thank you to everyone who in any way possible helped me get this far. To everyone who never gave up on me and never left my side. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much. To my Mama Bing and Papa Rodel, thank you for your moral and financial support, for your understanding and patience, at last your prodigal son/daughter finally made it. To my Lolo Esco and Lola Nisa, thank you for taking care of me when Mama and Papa was not around, I have been such a pain in the ass, but you still loved me unconditionally, you were the first one who accepted me and my sexuality, so for that you'll always be my inspirations. To my brother, sisters, aunts and uncles, cousins and neighbors who never failed to comfort me everytime I was about to give up, I must say that I have the best support system, thank you guys. Don't worry, all your efforts will never be put in vain nor taken for granted. To my childhood friends, best friends, high school friends, classmates, Facebook friends, college friends, coursemates, USEP friends, Zontar Family, BIR family and VXI family, my heartfelt thank you goes to you all too. I can't thank you one by one, coz it surely will be a long list of names to mention, but you know who you guys are. I admit I'm hard to deal with most of the times, and so I thank you for accepting me for who and what I am and for always pushing me to go over my limits. And of course, a shoutout to the Almighty God, the giver of life truly you are the best! I know I'm not worthy, but you never failed to make me realize how blessed I am. Thank you for everything that has happened to my life. Thank you for the lessons and wisdom oh Lord. Thank you for always guiding me and showing me what right path to take. This is just the start of me giving back everything you have given me and blessed me with. Let your will be done always! Before I end this speech, I would just like to tell everyone that no matter how long it takes, fight for it, like what the old yet gold saying goes "better late than never". Indeed, you just have to believe in yourself and don't let fear overshadow you. And always believe in Him. For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you find the strength to start over. - F. Scott Fitzgerald AMARILLO, ROJAN DALE ID NUMBER: 2010-01930 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHEASTERN PHILIPPINES BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ECONOMICS BATCH 2017 GRADUATE 🎓

[steelandcotton]

Wang Yen-nien schooling Scott M. Rodell on the finer points of the Yangjia Michuan Taiji Sword Form (楊家秘傳太極劍).

This Sword Form lies at the core of our Sword Work at the Academy of Chinese Swordsmanship.

We also draw upon the Ming period Two-Handed Dandao, the Four Roads Miaodao, the Yang Style Taiji Sword and Saber, and the WW2 Dadao.

[swordsmanbonsai]

Sitka Bungjin, Branches Wired~

Put some very tight bends in the trunk this spring (see: “Sitka Fir First Styling” below for a look). When I checked a few days ago, the wire was beginning to cut in. So I carefully clipped off the thick wire. Happily, it didn’t spring right back, but held its shape, at least for a few days. That provided an opportunity to wire and place the branches. A few more will have to come off, but I will wait to see which are stronger as they develop. I will also have to re-wire the trunk when I get back from my UK Seminars in a couple of weeks, to get some of bends back where they were. The top needles are dying off, but I’m not concerned about it as new buds are opening with bright green needles.

[sifu-kisu]

Courtesy of Scott M Rodell

[victoriansword]

Chinese Swords and Swordsmanship: Qing New Army Sabers

After the Qing Defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, steps were taken to modernize the Chinese military. Yuan Shikai was tasked with organizing the New Army with the aid of German advisors. In addition to adopting new uniforms, modern rifles, machine guns and cannon, they also adopted a European Military style saber. This video looks at five examples of these late Qing sabers and the history that lead up to their use.