Ninja tribe- I’ve decided to commit myself to competing in and winning American Ninja Warrior, the spectacular obstacle course TV show on NBC. Like a real ninja, I’ve silently and patiently watched this show from the sidelines during the past 7 years and delighted in its growth into a full-blown phenomenon. All this time I’ve […]
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Hey Ninjas- Thought you’d get a kick out of this video. I had so much fun creating it! I’m auditioning for the T.V. show American Ninja Warrior… and had to create a 3-minute audition video to submit with my application. Telling my story – who I am, how I train, my mission in life – […]
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Ninja Tribe- Let’s talk about courage, my ninjas. It’s been on my mind a lot, especially since getting back from leading the first ever Deep Retreat Wilderness Adventure last month. The retreat was a complete success and provided some great opportunities for overcoming fears (read: “we saw a fuckin’ bear”, but more on that later). […]
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My ninjas- I love me some Chai Tea, but not nearly as much as I love Tai Chi. One is just a delicious warm drink and the other is a method for harnessing every single one of the hundreds of trillions of cells of your body into a powerful force of nature. In other, Tai […]
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My Ninjas- It’s time for the exciting conclusion to my origin story! We’ve seen our young hero embrace the impossible through karate, face the darkness within during high school, experience a real ninja rebirth, struggle to transform his inner victim into a real super hero with powers, and then emerge from his cocoon of self-destruction. […]
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Welcome back my Ninja- It’s time for Part 4. of my Origin Story. In “Part 1 – Embracing the Impossible” we met our little ninja hero in childhood, then in “Part 2 – Into the Darkness” we watched as the little boy grew up to be a violent, self-destructive teenager. And in “Part 3 – […]
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Hey Ninja Tribe- In “Part 1: Embrassing the Impossible” we were introduce to our scrawny, lovable little boy hero who loved movement and hated authority. Then, in “Part 2: Into the Darkness” our ninja hero was lost in black fog of eternal night, drowning in self-victimization, and struggling to find his path to greatness during […]
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In the previous episode, “Embracing the Impossible“, you learned how a rebellious, scrawny Italian kid from Queens (yours truly) fell in love with martial arts because of “The Karate Kid” movie. Oh, the power of the 1980’s Hollywood. Today’s chapter catches up with our ninja hero, bravely stepping off a cliff and free falling through […]
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Just a Ninja From Queens NY As far back as I can remember, I’ve dressed up as a ninja for Halloween. Sure, I loved Star Wars, Spiderman, Superman, and the rest (especially the X-Men and Wolverine), but I never dressed up as any of them. Not once. Looking back now, the reason seems clear: I didn’t […]
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