Archive for April, 2009

The NFL Draft

April 28th, 2009 – 9:38 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe
Tagged as: Football, NFL

In a sad commentary on just how much I’ve missed NFL Football, I spent a good portion of my weekend watching the NFL draft. Draft weekend is the time when the NFL teams choose the best eligible college players to join the ranks of professional football. The ongoing explosion of salaries has changed [...]

Baseball is Back!

April 21st, 2009 – 10:09 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe
Tagged as: Baseball, MLB

Baseball is back! It seems like it was years ago that the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Devil-less Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series. It was a long, hard winter without the sound of pine hitting leather, but the 2009 Major League Baseball season has begun anew.
I especially enjoy the first few [...]

Choosing a Martial Arts School

April 14th, 2009 – 10:00 am Posted by Joe Lawrence

There are many key factors and choices to make when deciding what martial arts school to attend.  There are many different arts to choose from, such as Judo, Aikido or Taekwondo.  Then within each art there are traditional and modern schools.  Finally, out of those schools there are harder or softer disciplines.
There are many established [...]

Parkour – The Art of Movement

April 7th, 2009 – 10:35 am Posted by Joe Lawrence

Ever wonder when people would start moving from place to place like Spiderman?  Think it is fake how martial artists run up the sides of buildings in the movies?  They may be engaging in a very quickly growing art called Parkour.
This French art has been called Parkour, and the practitioners are called traceurs.  The movements [...]