This fall we will start with a western martial arts class based on Fiore Dei Liberis treatises from the 15th century. It will be a class going through a very fluid and coherent martial arts system with everything from wrestling to longsword fighting, with the longsword fighting being the main focus of the course. It…

I might as well confess that I am an adrenaline junkey, I love the thrill when my body surges with adrenaline and danger is imminent, this is why I’ll throw myself out on a steep hill feet strapped down to a small board braving ice and snow, just to feel the wind in my hair…

My father have been here for a couple of days and even tho we may agree on many practical things we seldom see eye to eye on spiritual matters. One thing that kept coming up in different conversations was whether or not you have to take your faith in account in every situation. The underlying…

I am not much for celebrity campaigns, but this campaign is one that has not only been around for a long time (started with live aid and has been going for as long as I can remember). Now The world is ready to deal with the Poverty problem, so lets join up and make it…

Today I stepped out on the playground to have a chat with Graeme and Zoe as we where talking I heard shouts from the other side of the parking lot. It’s clearly a quarrel and as I am contemplating whether or not I should move in I see the first strike fall. Telling Graeme to…

We couldn’t believe it when we heard it, we still couldn’t believe it when we had the tickets and yesterday it was finally time. [[Delirious?]] played their first concert in Latvia, and we where there. And as if that wasn’t a blessing enough we also had a baby sitter so both me and Hanna could…

It is not easy being a man in todays world, sometimes it seems like the whole world conspires to make it as hard as possible for us. In a world like this is you’re not a good man by accident, It takes hard work and good support. But good support doesn’t grow on trees that…

I have realized that all this blogging takes time, and I cannot possibly keep up with three blogs, so I have decided to make it into one and use my categories more carefuly. I hope you wont mind, you can still get the individual blogs by their feeds, here are the links so you can…

This friday I was asked to speak at Riga 1 Play scheme, a one week daycamp for the children connected to the church and Patvarums. Every day of the week they had been watching a part of the Narnia movie and talking about it, I was asked to talk about the armor of God From…

For as long as I remember, I have felt a pull to the great cities and tho I love the quiet of the country side for a brief visit I could never envision living there. This week while I was out driving through the pastoral landscape of Latvia I had a strange thought. So what…

I am soooooo excited, thanks to my Sensei and friend Colin Hatcher I am going to WMAV 2005. I am so looking forward to this. It is the Swordplay event of the year. All the best fighters there to teach us how to swing steel. And I get to spend a few days with my…

I was having a youth get together in Bauska last night, and I asked them why they where attending the corps, Why they where coming to the youth meetings, the answers where no different from what I would get in any other youth group but they still sent a chill down my spine. I have…

I was called to preach in Dobele church of Christ today, and I spent hours agonising over what to preach. Knowing nothing about the church I was about to preach in it felt like I was flying blind. I asked God what to preach on and Gods answer was, do what you always do… Preach…

As we are starting our new Christian martial arts school, we have decided to let go of the eastern martial arts and take up western martial arts. There are several martial arts systems created in the western world and one of the most successful ones have been penned down by [[Fiore dei Liberi]] in his…

After what seemed like forever (eight days) my Sword arrived. I’ts a Hanwei – practical Longsword and I am surprised by the quality of the blade and mostly the wooden scabbard that came with it, The hilt is perfect length and it balances perfectly just about two hands above the hilt. For the price I…

It’s a shame that the gold dragon requires magic or I’d have swung the “knight dragon” But I guess I am not yet as refined as a knight or a palading but have to be labeled a mere warrior, not that I shun that title. If it on the Other hand is a pern dragon…

God told me last night that I was being lazy, to much talk and to little hockey as we would say in Sweden. Anyhow, I was reminded once again that we are at war! And as soldiers of light we need to attack the darkness at every chance we get. God is a man of…

Yesterday we had a fantastic celebration of Jani with the Riga 1 youth, started of with grilling and a grand meal followed by games that we all enjoyed… Then followed by movies until breakfast (yes a lot of movies). At one time we watched Dress to Kill, my favorite Ediie Izzard DVD and as a…

Last night I was watching an episode of firefly. In this episode River the over intelligent sister of the doc finds Rev. Books bible, Book is the shepherd (Priest) on the crew of the firefly. River starts reading the bible and finds that it has flaws and that it doesn’t make sense so she starts…

We thought Angelina was quick when it came to physical development, but it might be that her sister has her beat. In her first minutes Anja lift her head up. On day two she fixed her eyes on her parents. and now not even three weeks she crawled of the towel she was lying on…