Martial Arts and Language – Feb 19th 2020 By John Frankl
My 2019 Reading List – Feb 14th 2020
What is a “Dead-Pattern”? – Dec 19th 2019
Filters not Containers – Dec 4th 2019
Children, Cosplay, and Violence – July 5th 2019
Revolution, Evolution, & Fundamentals – August 22nd 2018
Mindfulness and the Martial Arts – August 8th 2018
Five traits for Leadership – April 25th 2018
Woodpecker Lips & Coach Fitz – March 29th 2018
Three Rules for Rolling – March 14th 2018
The Finger & The Moon – how JKD lost its way – Nov 13th 2018
Governing Fear – August 18th 2017
Three Suicides – July 7 2017
Peter Boghossian and Matt Thornton, a conversation about the Portland train stabbing – June 9th 2017
It’s Aliveness – Still – May 16th 2017
The Women of BJJ – May 2017’s Video Podcast – May 6th 2017
From a Harsh Look to a Hand Grenade – April 12th 2017
Fighting – and, not or – Fitness – Mar 15th 2017
The necessity of Tribe – Feb 28th 2017
Cowards, assault, & the Nation Magazine – Jan 24 2017
The Hate Crimes Test – Jan 6th 2017
Dear World, about this election – Nov 9th 2016
When there are no Walter Cronkites left – Nov 6th 2016
Tradition, Truth, and Belief Revision – Nov 3rd 2016
Unsurpised by Ideology – Nov 1st 2016
Conquering Violence – the BJJ Brick Podcast – Oct 5th 2016
Of M.I.C.E, Men, and Trump – Sept 18th, 2016
Penn Jillette & Performance Wisdom – Sept 12, 2016
Are American police too violent? – August 2nd, 2016
The ABC’s of keeping our daughters safe (part 3) – June 26th 2016
The ABC’s of keeping our daughters safe (part 2) – June 22 2016
The ABC’s of keeping our daughters safe (part 1) – June 16th 2016
It takes mentors to make men – June 8th 2016
Appropriate Response Training – and Dads – June 2nd 2016
Israel, Ideology & Lies – May 24th 2016
The Necessity of Doubt – The Maturity of Reason – May 12th 2016
Daddy Issues – April 27th 2016
Swimsuits and Politics – April 20th 2016
Maturity, and Trump – April 12th 2016
Anger, economics, and actuality -Mar 3rd 2016
Five books that changed how I view the world – Feb 23rd 2016
A fundamental is what’s most important – Feb 15th 2016
Violence, Terrorism & Islam – Feb 5th 2016
SBG’s Karl Tanswell & ‘Dynamic Quality’ – Jan 29th 2016
The Fetish of “streetfighting” – Jan 14th 2016
A conversation on self-defense, violence, and delusion – Jan 7th 2016
Older Essays:
Surfing for balance – 2012
The MMA – Skepticism connection – 2012
The Faith Hope shell game – 2012
A thought experiment on, identity – 2012
Philosophy as a verb – 2012
“Faith” based reasoning – 2012
Hitchens, courage and lessons – 2011
The Enlightenment Delusion – 2011
5 Questions – 2007
About belts – 2006
Honoring the process – 2006
Coaching 201 – an introduction – 2005
Coaching the SBG way – 2005
Why Aliveness? – 2005
Exploring the map – 2004
Notes on drilling – 2004