Where did it come from, this vision of you,
of meditating arts and martial arts
at the same time, I'm assuming?
Yeah, so the meditative arts came to me
in a bit of a roundabout way.
I was originally, as a younger guy, 19, 20 years old,
really into Western boxing.
And I had a boxing coach tell me
that I should start doing meditation in Tai Chi.
And at the time, you know, I thought,
isn't that for like old people in the park?
How's that gonna help me with my practice?
And I had a lot of respect for him.
I took on the practice and the meditative arts
changed my whole life in so many ways
and my trajectory of how I started.
But it's kind of funny in that, in the beginning,
I wasn't really interested in wanting
to pursue a meditation path.
But it ended up being a great investment of time
and I'm forever grateful to him
for turning me on to the practice.