C-U Martial Arts Club

09/10/2026

I do my absolute best to play 10 games of Blitz Chess with the Chess.com app. Today I had an interesting interaction. Each game I make a point of wishing my opponent good luck and win or lose I always make sure to thank my opponent for the game. I had one game this afternoon in which I got absolutely picked apart and as per usual I thanked my opponent for the game and the message I got back was essentially "I don't know why you are thanking me for destroying you". My response was one that I have both heard and repeated in my 34 years of martial arts training that I consider a truism: When it comes to becoming better at anything you don't learn as much from your wins as you do your losses. This person seemed completely baffled by this concept. I have always sought out people better and more experienced so I am definitely not expecting to get the better of or be more knowledgeable than and that's the entire point. Although I pick up a great deal from teaching I learn the most from being humbled, emptying my cup and always being willing to learn.

09/06/2026

Can't thank G**o Jamie Sparling enough for giving me the opportunity to join him and Kurt Kincaid on the FormABLE Podcast to discuss our time training with the late great Sifu Steve Fristoe a truly amazing instructor and even more amazing human being who is missed immensely by everyone who has ever gotten the opportunity to have their life made better by being around him 🙏

Remembering G**o Steve Fristoe | The Teacher Who Lives On Through H...

09/01/2026

More pictures from the Spurlock Sundays Warrior Within event. I had brought in a number of "artifacts" (*cough* *cough* weapons) for people to check out from Kali, Silat, Baguazhang and more. A local BJJ group after the presentation asked if I would go over some of the stuff I was demonstrating from Kali which was incredibly cool of them and it so awesome to hear that this was one of the better attended events! I was really grateful for those folks who came to the event and was blown away by the level of engagement overall. As I told my wife when I took the audience through some Baguazhang movements I teach in the Health Within program the nightmare fuel that kept me up the night before was that no one would care or participate. Yet everyone in the room joined in. I was really left pleasantly surprised and couldn't thank those that came to the event enough.

08/31/2026

A few pictures from the Spurlock Sundays event The Warrior Within at the Spurlock Museum.

08/31/2026

Our Young Tigers 🐅 demonstrating Silat Jurus from Pencak Silat Mande Muda at the Spurlock Sundays event The Warrior Within at the Spurlock Museum.

08/31/2026

Video from Spurlock Museum's The Warrior Within for Spurlock Sundays. We had such a blast and I can't thank everyone who attended the event enough!!! Demonstrating Rolling Harimau from DM Silat and Old Harimau (Unassisted) from Madjapahit Silat.

08/30/2026

Had a blast today giving the Warrior Within presentation at Spurlock Museum for their Spurlock Sunday event. It was such a blast explaining my Martial Arts journey in that type of environment and the evolution of how I viewed training from my beginnings of my teenage years to where I am at now in my 50s. I was so thrilled at the level of engagement with those who attended and I will be forever grateful to Jeffrey and my beautiful better half Marie for making it possible to share something so meaningful to me with others. I'm grateful to Marie and my student Justin Duncan for playing uke for me. It can really suck sometimes to be on the receiving end of some of the material so I am always grateful to have such awesome training partners. Lot of love to our Harimau Merah Thaddeus and Dillon for showing off some of the Silat Jurus. They did amazing! I can't thank everyone enough who showed up. It truly meant a lot to me.

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