Master Ken does a great service by providing a special kind of example. I run into people all the time who sincerely believe that...

I attended a marvelous seminar over the weekend.  I’m not always a fan of seminars, but this was fabulous. There were two high level te...

Up until last February, I had what I found to be a fairly strong Hiki Otoshi Uchi strike in Shinto Muso Ryu. Then I had the chance to t...

We study martial arts.  That should mean we’re here to learn.  How we approach learning, the attitude we carry with us in the dojo is criti...

All the classical “Do” 道, or Ways, of Japan strive to achieve a better understanding of the world and the self.  It doesn’t matter whether ...