6 Methods Martial Arts & Swordmanship Academy

02/28/2026

Year of the Horse

02/28/2026

New Fender Squire Stratocaster, $350. Playability is amazing, and I love the traditional Seafoam Green.

02/28/2026

02/17/2026

Drilling Takedowns with Students |

02/16/2026

Mao-Period, Anti-Pestilence Poster, Featuring a Jian Stabbing Through A Mosquito, A Housefly, A Bird, and A Rodent.

02/13/2026

Yeeeeeeep!!

02/12/2026

Lam Hung Pak Mei | Ng Ma Gwai Cho Gwun | "5 Horses Return To Stables Staff"

01/22/2026

24 Hours Clean!!

That sounds like a small achievement, but for a poly-user (a person who will take any substance offered or available) that's been at it since age 15, that's HUGE. I had forgotten SO MUCH of my life.

I remember who I was, before those nurses left liquid morphine, after my grandfather's death.

I'll be taking a hiatus on teaching this year. I'll cooperate and give advice, of course, but I have interests outside of Pak Mei, such as refining my Japanese swordsmanship, joining an accredited BJJ gym, and polishing up my rusty guitar skills.

According to my family, I'm much more sweet and kind, which is nice. I know this doesn't paint me in a positive light, however, I'm a firmly believer, "you are only as sick as your secrets".

So, I don't carry many. If you think less of me after reading this, so be it; I've never claimed to be a role model, and no one should put me on a footstool, let alone a pedestal.

No hard feelings.

Be well, friends.

You're not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your pain.

- Tommy

01/21/2026

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge, exists without my consent.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden, lives in mystery and fear.

Superstition will drag him down.
The rain will erode the deeds of his life.

But, that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry, will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

This is my claim.

And yet, everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine, nothing must be permitted to occur upon it, save by my dispensation.

— from Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

01/21/2026

Bad luck wind,
been blowing at my back.
I was born to bring trouble to,
Wherever I'm at.
Got the number "13",
Tattooed on my neck.
When the ink starts to itch,
Then the black will turn to red.

I was born in the hole of Missouri,
Never had me a name.
They just gave me the number,
When I was young.

I've a long line of heartache,
I carry it well.
The list of lives I've broken,
Would reach from here to Hell.
Bad luck wind,
Been blowin' at my back.
I pray you don't look at me,
I pray I don't look back...

01/21/2026

CAS Hanwei Practical Kung Fu Saber