Rod Lindgren

Evolution of This Website When I first decided to build a website, I had very specific reasons for it. I had studied ISR at Wyoming with Sensei Woody Jensen in …

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What Does it Mean? I recently read an article claiming that Karate is not a martial art. It is a brand. The author posited that, as we all know, “a …

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First, let me give you a name. Ophira Bergman. Important person we will come back to. In the late 70’s and early 80’s, sport karate was kind of finding its …

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It has been said many times that a strong house requires a strong foundation. This was illustrated quite nicely in my neighborhood recently.There is a duplex right across the street …

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Negative Transfer There are two concepts that have an effect on progress in martial arts; positive transfer and negative transfer. Positive transfer is when something in your past has a …

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vs. Individual Sports I have always been more interested in individual sports than team sports, so now you know the slant of this post. Even when I have been part …

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