Saturday I held a WSD demo at the Salvation Army womans day in Bauska. I was there in capacity of self defense teacher to maybe spark some interest towards our leaders day in may where we will be dealing with the subjects of violence, self defense and working in a hostile world. Hanna was supposed…

Today I am running a women selfdefense demo at the womens day in bauska. Hanna was supposed to d anAerobic pass as well but as it turns out the whole family is underthe weather and therefore need to stay home and rest. I drew the shortest straw and go to Bauska.

I am currently doing a four day course on the book of Jonah held by Stuart old testamentteacher from WBC. It is very interesting and I have foundso many new nsights in this oddlittle bible book. Yes, I will be sharing these later!

Discipline, it is such a sullied word. In todays language it carries a negative tone, a tone of forbidding, joystealing, punishing character. As a martial artist I have a different view of the word. Through many long years of training I have come to realize that discipline is the only way to master an art.…

Angelina turned three years old, and had a party worthy of a princess, dressed in here Belle dress she hosted the princess party of the year! The puzzles where the big hit and she hasn’t really gotten interested in the fancy bike we bought her, but come summer I hope she will be swishing about…

On the 29th of June SSG Riga will arrange a full weekend of Fioresque training and swordplay. The seminars and workshops will mainly be led by Colin Hatcher on of the SSG Senior Instructors from the bay area branch in america. Colin Hatcher is currently working on an in depth study of Fiores dagger work…

I am just back in Riga from a two day trip to Stockholm to teach a self defence course for FASI (Salvation Army Social Institute) and to tie up some loose ends, like preparing to sell the car etc. Preparing the course I made some amazing discoveries. The first one being that I could teach…

Right now I am teaching a WSD seminar at a FASI course in Stockholm. Hence no posts.

A slow day today, cleaning day. Our house looks like a bomb exploded in it, due to all the travelling and sick children, sick parents etc… I thought I’d share the paper I wrote on the Holy Spirit as part of the Assessment conference, I got a rather high grading on the paper and while…

In reply to my article yesterday Emanuel Karlsten, High profile Youth leader in the Swedish Salvation army wrote this reply (I appologize to those of you who do not speak English). In short he says that he would not wear the uniform as it looks today (on account of todays uniform looking geeky) but would…

The Salvation army uniform is obviously an issue that has been debated to the bitter end and back again and previously on this blog I have posted one or two articles about uniform issues as well. Either way I have some new experiences that I would like to share. As I was in Malmö last…

So here we are back in Riga after a long, hard but extremely rewarding weekend. The girls are glad to be home and it will be nice to sleep in our own bed tonight. Today we also received the result from the assesment conference. Here is the report sent to the Swedish candidates unit. ”…

Going down to the sword training last night, I said bye, bye Angelina and she replied bye, bye daddy, Aj loba yoo! It is a moment I will never forget!