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After 50 years since the establishment of karate in the UK, and the best part of a century since its formal adoption as a branch of Japanese budo, I thought […]

Discussing my history with a fellow martial artist, I was asked; “what keeps you motivated after so many decades in karate?” I reflected that motivation changes with the passing of […]

In his book Art and Illusion the art historian Ernst Gombrich argued that an artist compares what he (or she) has drawn or painted with what he is trying to draw/paint, […]