Budo international Martial Arts Magazine Jul.-Aug. 2014 | Page 192

I want to teach communities and
poor people and to give people
something more in martial arts that's
not about showing off. And that has
gotten me into becoming 'Sensei on
the Road' - and where the road ends,
the adventure begins.
I've started to teach native tribes
and travel into real-life communities
teaching, but I find myself mostly
studying and looking into myself. I've
studied that when you see the tribe
leader living with his village and when
his village is floating,
his
home
is

floating too. That shows me that our
way of life, with our leaders living in
golden temples, is far from us...
Teaching martial arts make me
wonder many times about life, as
martial arts is the study of life - where
most real Grand Masters are at best
fools. If they had really been smart they
would have found something better to
do and more profitable.

What is teaching?
All GREAT teaching comes
from the heart - there are no words for

it. Finding words to explain the 'Do' - way
is like throwing stones at the moon.
In the last few months I've been
teaching in a new project for Native
Indians from the Cree and Inuit tribes
and have also started a great study
myself about life and visions of life
from their perspective.
When I was a kid I always loved
cowboy movies, but I was always on the
side of the Indians. The older I got, the
more I understood why. I could feel their
spirit, and it spoke to me more truly than
western money ideas and perspectives
of life. Here are some inspirational