Expectations are the mother of all screw-ups. This is true in many aspects of life, including sports. There is a vast difference between being confident about winning and expecting to win.

Yoga, I’ve often felt was simply counter to the way I’m wired. I typically seek out fast paced, intense, sometimes contact-oriented activities.

There are 5 (in some schools 10) basic principles that a Tae Kwon Do student is charged to live by.

People often look at endurance athletes with their heads cocked to the side and a bewildered look on their faces filled with questions like, “what on earth would make someone push their bodies through undoubtedly grueling circumstances for an extended duration, by their own choice?”

Challenges facing athletes today are so different than what young athletes of my generation contended with. This new set of challenges are ambiguous in many ways and insidious in others.