Expectation is the death of joy. Whenever I train with someone who’s preparing for a performance, I frequently find myself saying: don’t rob the audience of their enjoyment by telling them how many mistakes you made. No one cares what you planned to do because they only saw what you did do. More often than […]
Happy New Year!!! In the spirit of resolutions and self-improvement, I’ve made a little slideshow of my flexibility progress throughout December. Each day for 30 days, I took a picture of my middle splits for comparison, with hips & heels aligned against a wall and hands pressing up to straight arms. The depth of my […]
Ever since I saw Elvis Stojko lose artistic marks in the 1994 Olympics for his martial arts-inspired long program to a medley from Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, I have not been too keen on quantifying artistry. Most of me also feels that ranking things in order from The Best to… “not-the-best” is an exercise […]
