Luo Dexiu in Paris
Not really a proper post but I thought people might be interested in this video of Luo Dexiu’s seminar in Paris:
Kiva Martial Artists
It’s been a really long time since I posted - I know. I have a lot of posts that I’m working on but at the same time I’ve been learning so much that I realise more than ever how unqualified I am to be writing anything at all about martial arts. So it goes… I’ve learnt a lot from my teachers and have read some good (and not so good) books and have a lot to write once it’s clear in my mind.
Anyway - while there are some on topic posts coming up this one is pretty far off. I wanted to draw peoples attention to kiva.org if you don’t already know about it. From their website:
Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.From another page:
Kiva a lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur; empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.I really like this idea - essentially you lend money to people in need allowing them to improve or start a business to become self sustaining and the money is repaid to you. I have nothing against giving money but I also think that this is a nice additional method of helping people in need.
Again the Kiva website has a lot more information about how microfinance works.
A final nice thing about Kiva is that they allow you to join groups and count your total loans etc based on groups that you join. There is a very small martial artists group. It seems like a nice idea and a good way to show that martial artists aren’t all crazy people that get off on hurting people.