Practice started without doing any kata. We didn’t even do kihon waza (basic techniques). I’ve long joked that the only things I really tea...

  I saw someone on reddit saying that the footwork in Kendo feels unnatural. My immediate reaction was “Of course it feels unnatural, it’s ...

          Unraveling The Cords: The Instructions of a Master in the Tradition of Taisha-ryu  Georgi Krastev & Alex Allera (authors), Ya...

by 田所道子, copyright 2017 A friend asked me to contrast seitei systems and koryu systems in Japanese budo, and their relative benefits and d...

  Photo Copyright Girgoris Miliaresis 2014   Nearly everyone in the gendai (modern) budo world talks about taking ukemi (receiving a techn...

I've written before about the responsibility a teacher has for their students in Japanese martial arts. Here is a great example. A sumo ...

  Great day of training. It must have been 95F (35C) in the dojo, though. I talk a lot about the benefits of budo. We go to the dojo and w...

  Photo Credit Patricia Anderson Copyright 2023 Koryu budo schools teach many things: strikes, throwing techniques, joint locks, strangles...