Tag: Exercise & Sports

CONTRIBUTED BY SUZIE SMITH For the New Year I’ve been looking for a fun new way to incorporate more movement into my daily life as...

CONTRIBUTED BY CRYSTAL SCHOLLARD As I lay there quietly on the beach listening to the waves of my breath and slowly hear the sounds of...

CONTRIBUTED BY MELANIE HAMMONS SUP Logo Snorkeling? SCUBA diving? Surfing? What about Stand Up Paddle boarding? The water activities on Okinawa are pretty much endless. My husband...

CONTRIBUTED BY QUENTIN RICHARDSON Mina Sea Life 2 I read about this location last year and decided to take a co-worker of mine who really enjoys...

CONTRIBUTED BY CRAIG LAPINE Sniperz Team When you think of Okinawa, you think of some of the best diving in the world and some of the...

CONTRIBUTED BY TARA HOWES Tara used to live on Oki and was our Forum manager.  She now resides in Texas, but just had to write...

CONTRIBUTED BY SARAH HOFFMAN Happy Surfing Exterior I had surfed a bit as a child on the US east coast, and wanted to introduce my children...

Editor's Note: Louise submitted an article about her kids' success with Island Youth Lacrosse back in 2012.  Since then, the league has grown and...

CONTRIBUTED BY KRISTY WELLS Another geocaching adventure took us north to Kin on a beautiful, spring Saturday. The cache was located at Kenmin no Mori...

CONTRIBUTED BY LYNN HAMILTON Martial Arts 1 I love martial arts. I have been a practitioner on and off over the years. When I arrived in...

CONTRIBUTED BY SARAH PEVEHOUSE & HEIDI BREDLOW WOOP Logo Come run with us! WOOP! WOOP! Wait, what was that? W.O.O.P.? Yeah, that’s right – Women On Okinawa...

CONTRIBUTED BY MIKAYLA KING Shanbio Yoga After reading one of the monthly Okinawa Living magazines, I came across an advertisement for a spa and yoga studio...

Derby Gang CONTRIBUTED BY ZABRINA "JerZee Stinga" Songui When I first got to this island, I felt so disconnected. I was newly married and this was...

EDITOR'S NOTE: According to one of our readers: "Pro Wrestling is back on Okinawa under the name Ryukyu Dragon Pro Wrestling. Several of the...

CONTRIBUTED BY PENNY VA HEERDEN In the comments section of my Why Martial Arts? post, someone asked for links to local Martial Arts Association websites.  There...

CONTRIBUTED BY ANNA BOOM Okinawa City Marathon was on February 20th; were you there? If you weren’t running or cheering, you most likely enjoyed the...

CONTRIBUTED BY ANNA TIENTER Have you been looking for other women to share some fun and exercise with? How do you feel about mud, puddles,...

CONTRIBUTED BY ANNA TIENTER Did anyone notice the huge group of 25,000 people hanging out around the Asahibashi Park a few Sundays ago? It was...

CONTRIBUTED BY AMANDA HARMS PLAY ROLLER DERBY WITH US… the KOKESHI ROLLER DOLLS! Part manifesto- part invitation, here is my proposition: So there I was… Thirty-one years...

CONTRIBUTED BY CHIP STEITZ AND TARA HOWES This summer I received an email from Chip Steitz regarding the Special Olympics held each year on...

I have received some wonderful cooking posts from Penny over the last weeks and started an email conversation about how she came to be...

 CONTRIBUTED BY SARAH FORTE My husband and I knew before we came to Okinawa that we wanted to get scuba dive certified as soon as...

CONTRIBUTED BY HEATHER SHAFER Parenting is not always a bowl of cherries, especially when you have an energetic, in-your-face, rambunctious, and all around difficult five...

CONTRIBUTED BY LARISSA TRAQUAIR Tee it up at Taiyo “Never leave a birdie putt short” is the tagline on my Marine’s e-mail signature. Obviously, he is...

CONTRIBUTED BY JOY BARNES Six months ago, if I would have seen a post about “Running on Okinawa” I would have kept right on scrolling...

CONTRIBUTED BY JANAE BURGER Gone are the ornaments, the tree, the decorations, the lights, the holiday gatherings and the constant flow of delicious foods. Too...

CONTRIBUTED BY JEANINE CZUBIK   Years ago, and long before we met, my husband was an avid mountain biker, racing through the hills of Texas and...

CONTRIBUTED BY JEANINE CZUBIK When I arrived in Okinawa last winter, I was told to forget ever finding clothes to fit me off base.  After doing...

CONTRIBUTED BY SNUFF Editor's note: The name has changed since the original post, along with class times.  It's now "Reebok Crossfit Asia" and we've posted...

CONTRIBUTED BY DASHA GARIEPY It's no secret that there is a ton of "stuff" to do in Okinawa. Whether it's eating, shopping, hanging out, etc,...