It has been a few days since I updated here, but for good reason.  This past weekend I battled out several championship rounds of food poisoning.  Certainly a worthy opponent, this food poisoning, but in the end who’s still standing?!  You know this!
It definitely was not what I had on the agenda over the weekend [...]

Doug and Michael McGannon, fresh off of an exciting competition at the 2009 U.S. Open World Martial Arts Championships, are set to demonstrate Self Defense principles and techniques at Valencia Community College this week.  This will be a one-time event when Doug is given special permission to join Michael during one of his classes to [...]

…I salute you!!!
Well, here we are friends!  This is the Final Countdown (another shameless tribute to big music and big hair from the past :)  Tomorrow begins the world’s most prestigious Martial Arts tournament…the 2009 U.S. Open World Martial Arts Championships.  Martial Artists from all over the globe are converging on Orlando as I type (they have [...]

We did quite a bit of training today, but light in intensity.  I’ve had to wrap my ankle as it twisted yesterday twice…nothing major, and it wasn’t even during training when it twisted, but still need to take care of it as I do a lot of heavy pivoting on it.  Pinkie toe still jammed [...]

I had a full, hard day of training today…and as I was wrapping up some self-defense training at a local park with the team, we met a very cool young man by the name of Patrick, and his family, who also trains in martial arts.  He jumped in and helped us with some super-cool karate moves and [...]

So, as promised in my last post, I have some pics to share…
Myself, Mike Tatum, and Michael McGannon (my son and primary training partner) out in the open field training some self-defense over the weekend.  Can you say HOT and MUGGY (the weather, not the pic)!!!
Here’s Mike T. (right) striking a pose…um, I mean, traditional [...]

So, today we focused on self-defense training specifically. Michael and I worked on several sequences this morning together and then later we met up with Michael Tatum, a student with Bunjikan Tenguzake Dojo, here in the Central Florida area. This Dojo is in the line of instruction under Masaaki Hatsumi, the reknown Master from Japan.  [...]