What is the value of cross training?  Why do I consider it essential to development as a budoka? There are tremendous benefits to getti...

I am obsessed with developing proper koshi . My iai teacher, Kiyama Hiroshi, has been kicking my butt about my koshi for decades, and I’m ...

Every few years I seem to go through a crisis and start looking for the benefit of budo. I read all the latest papers dealing with the ...

A special guest post from Kim Taylor. Kim teaches iaido, jodo and kenjutsu, including Niten Ichi Ryu Heiho.  This is a nice post about the...