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Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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Category Archives: Martial Arts
The Next Grade
It kind of feels just the other day that I graded to my second belt here at Funakoshi Gordon’s Bay, but believe it or not, the time to grade to the next level is nearly upon us once more. Come … Continue reading
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A Despondent Craig is not a Happy Craig
A despondent Craig is not a happy Craig, and that was exactly the type of Craig you would have found on Wednesday evening, following his troubled knee once again blowing out during karate practice kumite and once more forcing home … Continue reading
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Semi-Contact Kumite: Scoring with a Front Jab
I learned something new during Wednesday evening’s Funakoshi practice from sempai Jonathan with regards to scoring with a front jab in semi-contact kumite (fighting). Basically you can’t. Well technically that isn’t true because a leading (front) jab that makes contact … Continue reading
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Something to Train for
Well it would seem that most people have now recovered from the serious number of bugs that seemed to be doing the rounds for the last couple of weeks, an observation based on nothing other than the sheer amount of … Continue reading
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Train ‘Em Hard!
Wow, what an awesome privilege I had at karate training last night! Sensei Birgitt Smit asked me (who is currently only a yellow belt in our particular Funakoshi style) to take over the reins for about a half a hour … Continue reading
A Little Yellow in You?
Annoyingly, my fairly brand new large white karate dogi is already looking worse for wear, and no, I’m not referring to the wonderful patch and reinforcing job that mom performed to repair the rather gaping hole that was exposing my … Continue reading
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Moving up the Ranks: A little Something to Keep in Mind
Today life is very much about instant gratification and the things that we think we want – bigger televisions, faster cars, brand name clothing, cutting edge cellphones, etc. We tend to want these things because in general, we feel that … Continue reading
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In Response to my earlier Observations…
This morning I received a wonderful comment from Maria, a black belt training partner from our dojo, responding to a post I wrote some time back regarding the Funakoshi grading system. I thought it only fair to publish both her … Continue reading
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