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

  Adam Grandt, Deborah Klens-Bigman, Kiyama Hiroshi, Peter Boylan.  Photo copyright Peter Boylan 2023 I still remember clearly, the first ...

  Final of All-Japan Judo Championships in 2007   Photo Copyright Gotcha2. Used under GNU Free Documentation License . There is a continua...

A guest post by    Richard Riehle, PhD  Judo Godan Judo — Why I still Train   People are sometimes surprised that, at 85 years old, I am st...

  I was talking with a student and teacher of classical Japanese martial arts, and the all too-common myth - that the teachers and student...

  A while back I wrote a post about The Budo Law Of Conservation Of Movement . Effective budo systems don’t waste time and mental space te...