Kieran Tamondong
Sarah’s benefactors at Asian World Of Martial Arts have an uncanny ability to find emerging young martial arts stars and sponsor them during their ascent to fame in both competition and things like movie and television work.
This work continued at the recent USA Open & Junior International Cup.
Sarah wrote a breakdown of which AWMA athletes were there and what gear they were using.
To read it go here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
How does one restart martial arts training as an adult?
With growing evidence that lifelong martial arts training can be beneficial to a person in many ways, one of the questions Sarah has been considering is “how does one restart training in martial arts when they’re an adult?”
She tried to answer her own question in a post for Asian World Of Martial Arts.
To read what she found out go here.
Filed under Health, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Kerim Ahmetspahic breaks cement blocks with head.
If you’re good at something, you might as well try to be the best at it.
Bosnian Kerim Ahmetspahic is very good at breaking cement blocks with his head. So good, in fact, that he’s now the world record holder for most cement blocks broken in 35 seconds.
Sarah wrote about this feat for Asian World Of Martial Arts.
Go here to read more.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Julia, Sesame Street’s autistic Muppet
Sesame Street has just introduced a new autistic Muppet character named Julia.
There are a number of reasons why this new character is valuable. For one, it will better enlighten non-autistics on how to share the world with autistic persons. Likely more important, though, it will give autistic persons a valuable reference tool to help them navigate the world.
Using television characters as guides to navigating the real world can be an uneven pursuit.
Sarah explained why in her debut post for Vox’s “First Person” section.
To read the full story go here.
Filed under Culture, Health, Relationships, Shameless Promotion, Television
Not artful fighting
In an ongoing semi-regular series, Sarah has been tasked by Fightland with trying to contemplate the artlessness of the fights that occur in non-“fight” sports.
For her latest assignment she looked at baseball and found there to be lots of posturing, lots of flailing, but not much in the way of effective striking.
To read the full story click here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 