The Bigger Picture

Read a book.  Go to the library and grab a stack of reading material.  Don’t know where to start?  Do a catalog search for “martial arts” and see what comes up.  Talk to other students and see what they’ve read that has jump started their training… fiction, technique, theory, history – the choices are wide and deep.
Reading is no substitute for training – it is a supplement.  It will get you thinking.  It will get you asking questions.  It will get you trying new things.  Good.  Widen the martial picture for yourself and everyone you train with.
Mushashi’s “Book of Five Rings” is a classic.  If after doing a library search you still can’t figure out where to start – there you go.  Culture: get some, share some.  Keep the body as well as the mind agile.