by Tambuli Media | Nov 17, 2020 | Japanese & Okinawan Martial Arts, Aikido, Antonio Aloia
By Antonio Aloia Rodney Grantham (~1928-2008) played a pivotal role in the push of aikido in the American Southeast. Grantham began judo in 1950 while stationed in Yokosuka, Japan as a surgical scrub nurse during the Korean War. There, he would train judo on his...
by Tambuli Media | Oct 7, 2020 | Aikido, Antonio Aloia
By Antonio Aloia At the heart of aikido lies something more than just martial technique or a peaceful and harmonizing philosophy. What lies beneath the surface of normal and routine aikido training is budo – the martial way. Budo is not a martial technique or a...
by Tambuli Media | Oct 4, 2020 | Lifestyle, Poetry, Rene Navarro, Uncategorized
By Rene J. Navarro I did not write the poems for a book. They were written randomly. Perhaps that’s not the right word to use. I should rather say they were written at certain intersections of my life and reflected on experiences in my own journey. In a sense they...
by Tambuli Media | Aug 19, 2020 | Chinese Medicine, Lifestyle, Rene Navarro
The following is a report on the mission to Homonhon conducted by Misereor (Germany), Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. and INAM Philippines in July 26-30, 2014. By Rene J. Navarro, LAc We thought we could not leave because there was a typhoon in the horizon, but...
by Tambuli Media | Aug 3, 2020 | Karate
by Irvin B. Gill There is a lot of material available to those who seek to better understand American Kenpo Karate. There are new self-defense techniques, different applications of the present material or definitions, books, videos and online sites devoted to Kenpo...
by Tambuli Media | Jun 1, 2020 | Health, Blood Pressure, Dr. Mark Wiley, Uncategorized
by Dr. Mark Wiley Diet is a crucial component of any hypertension reduction and prevention strategy. For many patients, particularly those with diabetes or pre-diabetes, it needs to be the fundamental focus. Correcting poor food choices is the easiest way to get a...
by Tambuli Media | Apr 5, 2020 | Poetry, Rene Navarro, Uncategorized
By Rene J. Navarro I have often done qigong and Tai chi chuan in power vortices – in the pyramids at Gisa and the temples in Upper Egypt (Karnak, Dendera, Abydos), in the Tor on Glastonbury and the Stonehenge in England, in the peaks of Huangshan in China, in the...
by Tambuli Media | Oct 24, 2019 | Martial Arts Film, Movies
Film Review by Lillian Bit The film Made In Chinatown is a very clever story by Writer and Executive Producer Mark V. Wiley. The idea came to him one day and he thought, “What would it be like for a Chinese kid to crossed the boundary of Chinatown and into...
by Tambuli Media | Jun 7, 2019 | Chinese Martial Arts, Ngo Cho Kun, Taizu (Tai Cho)
by Zhou Kun Ming As Quanzhou Taizuquan [aka Emperor Fist or Grand Ancestor Boxing] underwent development and refinement it experienced hardship along the way (what with Quanzhou’s political climate of that time); but as a result of this came a positive outcome for it...
by Tambuli Media | May 29, 2019 | Health, Dr. Mark Wiley
By Dr. Mark Wiley Negatives thoughts and feelings can be paralyzing. In fact, psychological distress can kill you according to a disturbing study on how negative emotions increase your odds of death from heart disease. So if you think that being sad, nervous, anxious,...
