Posts tagged ‘Bruce Lee’

Instructor Profile: Jim Mullen

By Jean Andrews, 13 January, 2009, No Comment

mullenDEvery man and woman travels through the martial arts by himself or herself. The journey is nothing if not personal and often intimate. For Jim Mullen, one of our top teachers, the journey has been a long one and, as you will read, a fascinating one…

Getting Out of Your Own [Wu] Wei

By Melissa Campos-Mendez, 29 September, 2006, No Comment

51It’s probably happened to all of us at least once. That unsettling moment when you look at a word you’ve just written and then question its spelling – even though you’ve used it countless times before – because now it appears entirely foreign. Perhaps you’ve had the experience of, upon becoming suddenly aware of being observed walking down the street, watching helplessly as your gait becomes stilted until you feel as though you’re no longer in control of your own limbs. How is it that in this split second we’re reduced to a third grade literacy level or made strangers to our own two feet? Somehow, we must have gotten in our own way.