Martial arts can help people with Parkinson’s Disease.
A growing number of health practitioners have begun recommending that people with Parkinson’s Disease take up some form of low- or high-impact martial arts.
It seems the activity does wonders to combat the effects of the degenerative neurological disease.
Sarah wrote about how it helps in a post for Asian World Of Martial Arts.
To read it click here.
Filed under Health, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Rest is important in martial arts training.
For many martial artists the act of training can become a compulsion. It’s always more time in the gym, more time working on technique, more time punishing one’s body.
That dedication is admirable and all, but sometimes it disregards a very important component of training — rest.
Sarah wrote about the value of rest for Asian World Of Martial Arts.
To read it click here.
Filed under Health, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Eat the potato
“Eating the potato” is a big thing in the Risky Fuel household.
It’s basically a metaphor for eating the hearts of your enemies and Sarah explained its origins, as well as an embarrassing trip to her local bank, for the first of what will be a regularly occurring series of columns about mental health and well-being for The Establishment.
To read the column click here.
Filed under Health, Recollections, Shameless Promotion
Mother Mother
Vancouver alternative-pop band Mother Mother’s newest album No Culture was the result of some deep soul searching.
As the band explained to me in a feature for SOCAN’s Words & Music, the combination of writer’s block and an identity crisis made making the album difficult.
To read about how they navigated this, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Ali… political
There’s a segment of sports fans (generally middle class and higher, always white) that gets incredulous about the notion of athletes being “political.”
These, of course, are probably the same sort of people who’ve never had to experience any of the persecutions and injustices that have made these athletes speak to power.
Sarah explained why the combat arts are political in a story for Fightland.
To read it click here.
Filed under Culture, Jock Stuff, Politics, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
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