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Protect what you love

November 11, 2017

Beladiri - Personal Protection The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — G.K. Chesterton. People approach martial arts training with different goals in mind. A great many people seek an interesting way to maintain health and engage in various forms of physical culture: strength, cardio/fitness, flexibility, and so on. Others are attracted to competitive and sportive opportunities that are offered within many modern martial arts.

Think Strategically

By Guru Nyk Cowham in philosophy

November 10, 2017

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory, tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. — Sun Tzu, Ancient Chinese military strategist Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. — Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman To truly understand a particular system of martial arts it is necessary to first appreciate the strategy underlying the choice of tactics & techniques that are typically employed within that style.

Live Well in Every Way

By Nyk in philosophy

November 9, 2017

Step 1. Install Hugo Goto hugo releases and download the appropriate version for your os and architecture. Save it somewhere specific as we will be using it in the next step. More complete instructions are available at installing hugo Step 2. Build the Docs Hugo has its own example site which happens to also be the documentation site you are reading right now. Follow the following steps: Clone the hugo repository Go into the repo Run hugo in server mode and build the docs Open your browser to http://localhost:1313 Corresponding pseudo commands:

Work With What You Have

By Nyk in philosophy

November 8, 2017

Hugo uses the excellent go html/template library for its template engine. It is an extremely lightweight engine that provides a very small amount of logic. In our experience that it is just the right amount of logic to be able to create a good static website. If you have used other template systems from different languages or frameworks you will find a lot of similarities in go templates. This document is a brief primer on using go templates.

Work With What Comes

By Nyk in philosophy

November 7, 2017

Introduction This tutorial will show you how to create a simple theme in Hugo. I assume that you are familiar with HTML, the bash command line, and that you are comfortable using Markdown to format content. I’ll explain how Hugo uses templates and how you can organize your templates to create a theme. I won’t cover using CSS to style your theme. We’ll start with creating a new site with a very basic template.