How tall they grow … and rise again! Aidan “Smasher” Ligtvoet hit yet another KIA milestone on 22 December 2025 when he gained his 2nd Dan Brown Belt rating!
Talk about determination! This young man is on an unrelenting march to Black Belt! Ahead for him is 3rd Degree Brown and then Black Belt in which he will gain a privilege that only 65 individuals of the Kiado-Ryu exist—being on The Wall!
Settling of the Mind Ready to Go
Odin is the chief god in Norse mythology. He is associated with wisdom, war, magic, poetry, and death
You would never want to get hit with an Odin fist! Or stabbed with an Odin claw! This is more than “ouch!”
VETERANS DAY is, arguably, the most essential, critical and gracious way to celebrate AMERICAN DEVOTION. For it is that day, every year, when we give thanks to and for those brave souls who have served, fought or died to preserve America, unequivocally the greatest country on the face of the earth. So thank you—Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard and Police Force for all you’ve done and will continue to do! Without you there would be no America.
Perfect practice, perfect makes.
Simple practice makes a habit.
If it’s perfection we desire,
then we must make Perfection habit.
Simple habits, habits make.
The outcome of our loves
becomes extraordinary in the law
that perfect is as perfect does.
When we spend time in forming
those things we want in ‘grooves’,
then we must practice perfectly
for perfect is as perfect moves.
We can’t expect perfection
from results our effort takes,
if we don’t practice perfectly,
for perfect is as perfect makes.
To not get drained and tired,
and not be madly dumb,
in all things great and small
we must Maximum the Minimum.
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
The highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
In the journey of accomplishment
the wise this adage heed —
fast or slow is not of note,
of note is Perfect Speed.
Impatience is wanting something to happen before the due time.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
You win battles by knowing the enemy’s timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.