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Combat Principles
Maai – Distance
In martial arts, victory often begins with understanding distance. Maai refers to the space between you and your opponent and knowing how to control it. A skilled fighter adjusts this distance constantly—staying just far enough to avoid danger while remaining close enough to strike effectively. Mastering distance allows a martial artist to attack, defend, and move with perfect timing.
Zanshin – Awareness
Zanshin means a state of complete awareness before, during, and after a technique. It is the ability to stay mentally alert and prepared for any movement from the opponent. Even after delivering a strike or block, a martial artist keeps focus and readiness, ensuring that no opportunity or threat goes unnoticed.
Kime – Focused Power
Kime is the moment when all the body’s energy, speed, and intention come together in a single decisive action. It is not just physical strength but the precise concentration of power at the exact moment of impact. Through proper breathing, body alignment, and timing, kime transforms a simple movement into a powerful and effective technique.
Mushin – Clear Mind
Mushin, meaning “no mind,” is the state where the mind is calm, free from fear, hesitation, or overthinking. In this state, movements flow naturally and instinctively.
A martial artist who achieves mushin reacts smoothly to any situation, allowing training and experience to guide actions without distraction.
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Basic of karate 💯 🥋
Combat Principles
Maai – Distance
In martial arts, victory often begins with understanding distance. Maai refers to the space between you and your opponent and knowing how to control it. A skilled fighter adjusts this distance constantly—staying just far enough to avoid danger while remaining close enough to strike effectively. Mastering distance allows a martial artist to attack, defend, and move with perfect timing.
Zanshin – Awareness
Zanshin means a state of complete awareness before, during, and after a technique. It is the ability to stay mentally alert and prepared for any movement from the opponent. Even after delivering a strike or block, a martial artist keeps focus and readiness, ensuring that no opportunity or threat goes unnoticed.
Kime – Focused Power
Kime is the moment when all the body’s energy, speed, and intention come together in a single decisive action. It is not just physical strength but the precise concentration of power at the exact moment of impact. Through proper breathing, body alignment, and timing, kime transforms a simple movement into a powerful and effective technique.
Mushin – Clear Mind
Mushin, meaning “no mind,” is the state where the mind is calm, free from fear, hesitation, or overthinking. In this state, movements flow naturally and instinctively.
A martial artist who achieves mushin reacts smoothly to any situation, allowing training and experience to guide actions without distraction.
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A man who studies his own patterns with brutal honesty eventually becomes harder to manipulate, because once he understands where he typically bends, panics, or seeks comfort, he can anticipate his own weaknesses and close the gaps before someone else exploits them.
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Vietnam.
Between the old city gate and morning hustle, a quiet moment of tradition... rolls by🍃
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Suri young lady with Intense beauty that makes her presence impossible to ignore. Her tricolor face paint and crown of dried pods were more than just decoration, they were a strong visual marker of her creativity.
#SuriTribe #OmoValley #Ethiopia #FineArtPortrait #IndigenousCulture #africavibe
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On this day in 1971, the Beatles single “Let it Be” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #2 (March 13)
It debuted at #6 in the US, and at that point in time, #6 was the highest ever debut position for a song on the US Billboard Hot 100.
It was also the Beatles' final single before McCartney announced his departure from the band.
Both the “Let It Be” album and the US single "The Long and Winding Road" were released after McCartney's announced departure from and the subsequent break-up of the band.
It was a Paul McCartney song, but credited to the Lennon/McCartney songwriting team, although Lennon was often disparaging about the song, as he was about much of McCarney’s work at times.
McCartney said he had the idea of "Let It Be" after he had a dream about his mother (who passed away when McCartney was 14) during the tense period surrounding the sessions for The Beatles ("the White Album") in 1968.
McCartney later said: "It was great to visit with her again. I felt very blessed to have that dream. So that got me writing 'Let It Be'."
In a later interview he said about the dream that his mother had told him, "It will be all right, just let it be."
When asked if the phrase "Mother Mary" in the song referred to the Mother of Jesus, McCartney has typically replied that listeners can interpret the song however they like.
The song went all the way to #1 in the US, and a host of other countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Norway.
It went to #2 in the UK.
#beatles, #thebeatles, #letitbe, #paulmccartney, #johnlennon, #georgeharrison, #ringostarr, #mothermary, #70smusic, #dailyrockhistory
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OZZY OSBOURNE ON HIS FAVOURITE LED ZEPPELIN SONG: "MY WORLD STOOD STILL"
When it comes to new ideas, it’s often not who does it first but who does it second. We like to believe that the best musicians create something from nothing, but it’s usually those who reconfigure and cement ideas already in circulation who end up making the best music.
Black Sabbath provide the perfect example. As frontman Ozzy Osbourne explains, Sabbath needed to hear a protozoal version of the music they were striving for before they could manifest it for themselves. For that, they needed Led Zeppelin.
The members of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin were friends long before the latter hit the big time. “We were really good mates with Led Zeppelin,” Osbourne recalled in 2019. “Especially Robert Plant and John Bonham, who came from the Midlands. Zeppelin had wanted us to be on their label, Swan Song. But we couldn’t make it work out.” At this time, Sabbath were struggling to work out how they were supposed to get on the radio without selling out.
Thankfully, Led Zeppelin were about to lead the way.
During an interview for Lauch Radio Network back in 2007, Osbourne recalled bumping into Plant, a friend of Geezer Butler’s, shortly before the release of Zeppelin’s first record.
Ozzy asked him what he was up to, and he replied that he’d just accepted an invitation to join Jimmy page’s new group, The New Yardbirds, later to be renamed Led Zeppelin.
When Zeppelin I came out in January 1969, it was like a shot to the heart.
Black Sabbath had been pushing for a heavier sound for years but hadn’t found a winning formula. Listening to the album, Osbourne realised that Sabbath and Zeppelin had been aiming for the same thing all along: they both wanted to achieve mainstream success without compromising their artistic values.
The only difference was that Zeppelin had managed to do so, and Sabbath hadn’t.
“The first two [Zeppelin] albums had such an impact on my voice and on my life,” Osbourne told Launch Radio (via Rock and Roll Garage). “Similar to The Beatles when I first heard them.” In a 1995 interview for the History of Rock and Roll documentary, he was equally vocal about the importance of Led Zeppelin I: “I remember listening to the first Zeppelin album. It was like such a great breath of fresh air for somebody doing something acceptable but yet so different.”
Tracks like the ecstatic ‘Communication Bad Time’, the fierce’ ‘Good Times Bad Times’ and the deliciously doomy ‘Babe I’m Gonna Leave You’ left Osbourne reeling.
Years later, in an interview for Rolling Stone, he revealed that ‘Dazed and Confused’ had utterly altered his worldview. “My world stood still the first time I heard this,” he wrote, clearly still recovering from the impact.
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On this day in 1966, The Mamas & The Papas single “California Dreamin’” peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (March 12)
It was originally recorded by “Mr Eve of Destruction” Barry McGuire, intending to be used as a follow-up to his big hit, but The Mamas & The Papas wrote it, and their version ended up being the one most associated with the song.
Interestingly, the original Barry McGuire version featured The Mamas and The Papas on backup vocals!
When the group was just starting out in 1965, their friend McGuire, already an established star, saw their potential, and helped them get a contract with his record label, Dunhill Records.
“California Dreamin’” was written back in 1963 while John and Michelle Phillips were living in New York City during a particularly cold, dreary winter, and Michelle was missing sunny California.
The Mamas and The Papas single was released in late 1965 but was not an immediate breakthrough.
After gaining little attention in Los Angeles, a radio station in Boston was actually the catalyst to break the song nationwide.
It went on to become one of the instantly recognizable, signature songs of the California sound and the 60s counterculture era, and spawning numerous cover versions by respected artists such as America, The Beach Boys, The Carpenters, George Benson, and Jose Feliciano.
The Wrecking Crew, a collection of some of the great session players of the era: Hal Blaine (drums), Larry Knechtel (keyboards), Joe Osborn (bass) and P.F. Sloan (guitar) all played on the Mamas and Papas track.
A jazz flute player named Bud Shank was also brought into the session to play the flute solo, and allegedly nailed it on the first take, but personally, I wish they’d used Ron Burgundy…😉
Elsewhere on the charts, the song peaked at #3 in Canada, and #14 in New Zealand.
It originally peaked at #23 in the UK in 1966, but re-charted after its use in a Carling Premier commercial in 1997, peaking at #9.
“California Dreamin’” is also a popular musical reference to the counterculture era in tv and the movies, such as the song’s memorable appearance in “Forest Gump”.
“California Dreamin’” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001, and 2021, Rolling Stone ranked it #420 in its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.
#californiadreamin, #themamasandthepapas, #60smusic, #johnphillips, #michellephillips, #mamacass, #dennydoherty, #dailyrockhistory, #grammyhalloffame, #thewreckingcrew, #barrymcguire, #thecaliforniasound, #60scounterculture, #onthisday, #thisdayinmusic
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Released on the 11th of March 1970,"Déjà Vu" is the second album by trio Crosby, Stills & Nash, and their first as a quartet with Neil Young.
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𝐂𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐣𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐢 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈𝐧 𝐊𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐧, 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 ✨
A stunning example of 19th-century Persian residential architecture, where geometric vaulting, delicate ornament, and filtered light turn the interior into pure symmetry.
𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫: Sadegh Ghanbari
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Today we celebrate every woman on the planet.
Happy Women's Day to all the incredible women!
May every woman continue to be respected, empowered, and appreciated not just today, but every single day.
You bring so much love and beauty into our world simply by being here, and that makes everyone happy.
Thank you for inspiring the world.
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Proof of walk this morning with Amigo and Cypher at Whitesand Beach ⛱️ 
