Okay, I’ll start by using boshiken, as that is what I have on Bill’s website, but I’m open to discussion on proper spelling and why. Now, on to usage…been doing some conditioning work, and I’m curious as to the proper striking surface for a boshiken, particularly the thumb strike surface. I did some...

In your opinion, how much mental preparation and review is a good thing, and when is it too much? Clearly, when you are practicing kata over and over in your head or techniques and never doing any phyiscal application, that is "overthinking it". Also, I've had moments where I'm simply doin...

I have a question...why do you teach it differently for a beginner and an experienced student? Wouldn't all students benefit form viewing this from different perspectives? Why even teach the concept of "chambering", when starting? Is it simply to make it simpler? Doesn't this teach a bad h...

[quote="Bill Glasheen"] The truth is that in some cases, choice for the uneducated consumer isn't necessarily a good thing for that consumer as measured either by cost or by clinical outcome. And yet of all things about our health care system, we Americans love our choice. So... we get wha...

Bill, In a quick review of the original posts, I see a lot of discussion about cost and profit as the importance in asessing value and benefit. I see little discussion about side effects, patient choice, the benefit to patient AND practitioner of quality interaction...not all incentives are or shoul...

Good post and not enough time to respond as this subject deserves..but I think Bill and I have discussed some of this in other posts as well. Dana, I agree there are many alternative medicines and techniques that support the patient's ability to heal themselves and look at the issue holistically..no...

of course the "but" to that train of thought is to be aware of your weaknesses and train to offset them as muuch as possible

thank you for two great responses! I wholeheartedly agree that technique is important for effective use of whatever abilities we have been given and build on our own. I think that was part of the point I was trying to make...is it really true, and is it even important, that there may be gender diffe...

Similar study with slightly different conclusions…also concluding that strength differences were mainly due to muscle mass and not gender (only abstract available) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=8477683&dopt=Citation Eur J Appl Physiol Occup Phy...

This article discusses muscle mass is the main determinant of strength differences in men/women and does imply there is a difference based on location (upper/lower)….only abstract available http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/71/2/644 J Appl Physiol 71: 644-650, 1991; 8750-7587/91 $5.00 J...

What follows are some abstracts that appear interesting, unfortunately, I do not have a subscription so cannot access full articles for all: This one does have access to the full article and does report a difference in muscle mass, particularly upper body in Men vs women…it appears to note this is d...

Here’s a very interesting article based on military studies of men and women. It questions if size and strength are even the right measures: http://www.warandgender.com/wggendif.htm Some highlights: Furthermore, different kinds of physical strength show different gender patterns. Women are constitut...

I’ve often heard the statement that men have more upper body strength and women have more lower body strength. In the mode of questioning my assumptions….is this really true? Second, how does that affect our training? Should it be taken into consideration in training as well as in our own personal g...

The more I think about it, the more I think about it this way...when you are being attacked, you should use any tool and resource you have at hand. It is good (and recomended) to know the laws in your city, county,province, state, country,etc. It is also recommended and important to give some foreth...

dana..great minds..as I was about to check snopes meself...
vicki and dana,
Thank you for the good info!