07/27/2026
Fifty-one years on the mat. Still training hard. Here is why.
People ask me all the time...when does it get easier?
It doesn't. That was never the point.
Fifty-one years in and I am still training daily. Not chasing something new. I stopped chasing new a long time ago.
Here is the part nobody tells you when they hand you your first belt: mastery isn't a thousand techniques.
It is five...understood so completely you stop thinking of them as five separate things. You go infinitely deeper into the basics, down to the angle, down to the weight shift nobody else notices.
Then you just link them together.
That's the whole system. That is KAJU-KAI.
Technique hoarding is dilution. Five techniques mastered beats five hundred memorized. Every time. White belts collect moves. Black belts collect depth in the same handful...until linking them together stops being a decision and just becomes what the body does.
So when I say I still train hard, I don't mean I am adding more. I mean I am going deeper into what I already have. Fifty-one years into the same basics and I am still finding new floors underneath them.
Do not seek to remember. Train until you cannot forget.
That is the work. Every day. No days off.
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