It’s a rainy day here is Virginia. With the way the weather has been you would swear we were in the Pacific Northwest, but I digress. For those of you who have been following me…
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Weekly Teaching Recap
One of the big questions I get all the time is what do you teach the kids? Or what does your day typically look like? I’ll try to start sharing what I teach every week….
Finish: What is in my toolbox to help me complete my goals in 2017.
It’s 2017 another year is gone and done. Now we all look forward to a new year and new possibilities. If your like me use this time to set goals and projects. My word for…
Your Liver Doesn’t Know it’s Chest Day: Why you can’t go 100%, 100% of the time.
When I lay down barely able to get out of bed, all I feel is guilt. I found in my experience that martial artists as a whole are a pretty goal oriented group and generally…
Cutting Weight: the good, the bad, and the ugly Part 1
Part 1: the ugly Most times when you have to give a talk about something, it’s usually better to start with the good to ease everyone in. But I’m not going to do that. I…
One Last Round by Matt DeBruycker
For those of you who don’t know already my brother works in video and photography. He also happens to be one of my best training partners. So when he asked me to work with him…
Fighters Drinking Coffee (includes all the Kristenism…)
I had the pleasure of being on the Podcast Fighters Drinking Coffee earlier this year. I had a lot of fun hanging out with Scott and Mike. They really know what they are talking about. You…
Inspiring the next generation of women: my experience teaching self defense for the girl scouts.
This weekend I had the pleasure of teaching a group of 10-year-old girls and their moms an intro to self-defense. This is actually the second I’ve gotten a chance to spread my love of martial…
Looking back on 2015: resolutions that I always don’t make and I finally might know why.
Looking back on 2015 I realized that I always have super big aspirations at the beginning of the year and by the end of it I never accomplished any of them and just disappointing myself….
Why Martial Arts?
Why not a lawyer? Or sell wine for a living? Why not knitting or scrapbooking? Why not marriage, 2 kids and a mortgage? I’ll tell you why…I don’t know… When I was 9 I took…