Samurai, Asian history, fitness trends, martial arts, dance, karate, yoga, Tai Chi Chuan, Chi Kung, Kobudo
Music
Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciante
Movies
The Last Samurai, The Seven Samurai, Sanjuro, Rashomon, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy,
Television
The Samurai
Books
The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musahi, The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori, The Revenge of Forty-Seven Samurai, The Samurai Sword: A Handbook, The Zen Way to Martial Arts: A Japanese Master Reveals the Secrets of the Samurai
Heroes
Family has always been very important to me. All of the children I raised have gone on to great success, and I am very proud of them:
Tony has a Doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago, and works for a major corporation.
John, whom I helped raise from the age of 6, always had a passion for music and movement. John is now the guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Josh has his own production company in Washington D.C., and creates numerous specials for cable networks.
Asia is an Emmy-winning producer who has worked for several major television networks.
Erik interned at a major television network, and is now a photojournalist for a TV station in Palm Springs, Calif.
Laurence Berkley's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Zodiac Sign:
Virgo
Children:
Proud parent
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About me: Check out my new DVD at www.asamuraiworkout.com.
For more than forty years, I have followed a path immersed in the fusion studies that have become a modern fitness trend. I teach and coach a multitude of disciplines involving yoga, martial arts and dance. I've worked with students of all ages around the world, even the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I develop specialized workouts for serious students as well as busy professionals seeking a fun, spiritual way to stay in shape.
I currently coach, practice, and research in Las Vegas. Kobudo, a form of non-combative weapons training incorporating a short staff (jo), is the inspiration behind my first instructional DVD, A Samurai Workout.
I believe everyone should study martial arts fitness. Civility is eroding in our uncertain world, and there is a need to be skillfully alert, to sense and retreat from danger. My current goal is to instill the confidence that develops from a strong mind-body-spirit connection in as many people as I can.
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone interested in improving their flexibility, strength, balance, confidence by learning the easy ways ancient samurai techniques can be applied to modern fusion exercise.
I hope you try my workout - visit www.asamuraiworkout.com - and enhance your spirit and your life.
Mr. Berkley, thank you very much for putting us on the "top friends" list. it is both a priveledge and an honor, sir. although we do not know what kind of music you like(jazz!?) we truly hope you dig our crazy sounds! peace and respect, DECAYof theANGEL(Harry&Yuki)
wow!!! please excuse my naive and pathetic exitement, but it is not every day one can communicate with the father(step) of the one and only John Frusciante! i am both grateful and humbled by your generosity of heart and soul and are eternally respectful of your existence as a samurai and master of the way of the warrior. we bow deeply in respect to you, good sir and we look forward to communicating with you. we too are disciples of Kurosawa! so much so that when Mr. Kurosawa passed on to the next dimension we, being the dedicated humans that we are, went to the mans' funeral to pay our last respects and prayers! peace and love from the land of the honorable and fearsome samurai and the frail and ghostly geisha- DECAYof theANGEL.
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