International Kickboxer Magazine, July/August, 2015
Peter Aerts has recently announced his retirement due to an inability to recover from injury, bringing down the curtain on a phenomenal career. Continue reading
Archive for Jerome Le Banner
Sam Greco: True Elite
Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing with tags All-Japan Karate Championships, Branko Cikatic, Captain Socceroo, Christopher Chronis, Dana Goodson, Duke Roufus, Ernesto Hoost, Jerome Le Banner, Juventus, K1, Kyokushin, Mas Oyama, Masaaki Satake, Michael Thompson, Mike Bernardo, Mr Ishii, Muay Thai, Paul Fyfield, Peter Aerts, Rolls Royce, Sam Greco, SBS television, Seido, soccer, Stan 'The Man' Longinidis, The Crowning, WAKO world title on April 17, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
International Kickboxer Magazine, March/April 2014
Sam Greco is more than just a world champion full-contact karate fighter who became a world champion kickboxer during the glory days of the now-defunct K1 organisation: he is a legend. Continue reading
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R.I.P. Mike Bernardo
Posted in Kickboxing with tags Andy Hug, Ernesto Hoost, Jerome Le Banner, K1, Mike Bernardo, Peter Aerts, Sam Greco on March 4, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Some weeks ago, I posted a couple of pieces about ‘Old Kickboxers Never Die, they just end up in the can – or the hospital.’ Sadly, Mike Bernardo has proven me wrong. He killed himself on February 14 at the age of 42 after a long battle with depression and anxiety. Continue reading
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Courage
Posted in Kickboxing, Reading with tags Jerome Le Banner, Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot, Kickboxing, Lord Moran, Nikos Kazantzakis, Rodney Hall, Semmy Schilt on August 28, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle“Cowardice… is something a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.”
-Lord Moran
Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel, The Last Temptation, remains wildly controversial. Black-listed by the Vatican shortly after publication in 1960, Kazantzakis took a number of significant liberties with the ‘official’ story of Christ, as told in the gospels. Judas is a very close friend; the only disciple with the strength of character to betray a Jesus who instructs him to do it. Agonising death on the cross has been revealed to Christ through a premonition as the will of God.
While we all know the story of the crucifixion, the raw facts have been obscured by accretions of sentimentality and tradition. The fundamental fact is that Christ was tortured to death. Continue reading
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Discipline
Posted in Kickboxing, Reading, Writing with tags 'Jazz', 'Zen and the Art of Archery', Alexander Solshenitzyn, Anna Karenina, Budda, Edgar Allan Poe, Eugen Herrigel, Irving Berlin, Jerome Le Banner, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Ken Burns, One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Richard Bach, Sonny Rollins, Tolstoy on August 15, 2010 by Jarrod Boyledis·ci·pline // (d s -pl n)
n.
1. Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement.
2. Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control.
3.
a. Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order.
b. A systematic method to obtain obedience: a military discipline.
c. A state of order based on submission to rules and authority: a teacher who demanded discipline in the classroom.
4. Punishment intended to correct or train.
5. A set of rules or methods, as those regulating the practice of a church or monastic order.
6. A branch of knowledge or teaching.
tr.v. dis·ci·plined, dis·ci·plin·ing, dis·ci·plines
1. To train by instruction and practice, especially to teach self-control to.
2. To teach to obey rules or accept authority. See Synonyms at teach.
3. To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience. See Synonyms at punish.
4. To impose order on: needed to discipline their study habits.
Definition taken from the free online dictionary
(Please ignore the aspects relating to compliance or submitting to authority, because I certainly don’t advocate or believe in that).
I am endlessly fascinated with the development of skill as the means for undertaking the profound existential journey. Regardless of what it is, almost; whether it’s building a wall as in Solzhenitsyn’s ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’, reaping a harvest as in Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’ or even a seagull obsessed with flying, as in Richard Bach’s ‘Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.’ Continue reading
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