2. Nice use of “hyperlinks.” In class our instructor often refers to things he told us before…but without a hyperlink there isn’t a way to recover that other lesson, in all its glorious detail. Here, you make use of your previous articles and show us how, in the long run, stuff “fits together.”

3. You got your purple belt in (only) 3 years. Wow. I don’t think that’s because you are bigger (150 pounds, no, not that), stronger, or faster. I suspect it’s because you think more, and put things together better than most people. This blog is the brain of Aesopian, mri’d so we can see how it works. As we see how it works, hopefully we develop the same habits of analysis, insight, and intuition ourselve.

4. You don’t assault us with “grappling blueprints” or “hucksterism.”

I hope some other readers are dropping a few ducats in your “tip” jar from time to time. Reading your articles and working on their tips and techniques is certainly better than paying the absurd prices demanded by movie theaters these days. Hence I try to Netflix my movies and “tip” the difference periodically. Of course it helps that I’m married and don’t have to impress a date with my largesse….

P.S. – from best I can determine, it’s the “Stone Squirrel” posture from SBGI, not “Stoned” Squirrel, which makes sense – a squirrel holding an acorn in its paws, with paws so unbendable they are like stone. I grant you if it were a Bravo move, it could well be “Stoned” squirrel, but….