Anatomy Lessons

I'm sitting comfortably on my chair with the air-cond softly humming above my head. Birds flying and chirping happily, perhaps singing too. It feels like I'm in a village. Nope, I'm in my office. At this time of the semester, it's still peaceful and quiet. My favorite time of the semester.

I've accomplished something over the past two weeks where I finally got my Dan upgraded. I've never been so proud of myself; though the guys there intimidated me but I believe I'm a great karateka. Of course, accomplishments come with a price too. I spent few hundreds for that grading just to get a piece of paper that the whole world recognizes. That's okay. This is a long term investment.

Recently, I've been a little bit obsessed with self-defense techniques. Yes, karate is indeed a martial art that I'm practicing but in terms of self-defense, I'm still way behind others. So I've been youtube-ing videos on techniques that one can apply in various compromising situations. So I've chosen a few martial arts like Wing Chun, Aikido and karate. I believe one needs to know how to defend within the shortest distance and also long distance. Hence, our arms and legs are our weapons, not only to coordinate our movements, but also to protect ourselves.

Women and children are always the victim of abuse in many ways. So knowing a little bit about self-defense is also a good thing because it might save your life.

OSU!