I began blogging in 2005, deployed to Iraq in support
of Operation Iraqi Freedom, then began a martial arts blog, Steven’s Training
Hall, back in 2008. Time passed and my blogging output dwindled to almost
nothing as other priorities came to the fore.
It is time, once again, to blog so I am starting
over. Like my old dress green uniform, those early blogs belong to my past;
they no longer "fit". Over the
next few weeks, I will relocate some old posts here that I feel are worth
keeping.
This blog is intended to reflect my interests in
combative and martial arts. A long time hobbyist, I began in my teens with high
school fencing and shinai fighting at SCA events, a Korean composite art called
Hap Do Sool, and Tony Gneck’s expression of Muay Thai. Since then I have
studied Indonesian Pencak Silat and Indochinese Kuntao Silat, and had exposure
to Bujinkan Ninpo Taijutsu, Aikido, U.S. Army Combatives, Gao-style Bagua
Zhang, and other arts.
The flip side are the healing arts and they’ll make appearances
here, too. I spent nine years as a combat medic and served with the infantry
both in Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and currently work as a cardiac
telemetry technician at a VA hospital. I’ve dabbled with massage, reflexology,
herbalism, and energetic healing.
My other blogs will embrace living life, family and a
better world; matters relating to my writing career (in its infant stage),
family history and genealogy, and other topics of personal interest; and the
growing and cooking of good food and drink. Links are also listed in the right
hand column.
Anyway. I hope you enjoy my blog. My mind runs in many
directions. Explore. Relax. Make yourself at home. Let's talk.
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