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

Photo Copyright 2015 Grigoris Miliaresis This one is for Scott Halls. From the Kenkyusha Online Dictionary へいじょうしん 【平常心】 (heijs...

A while back I wrote about mushin 無心 , usually translated as “no mind” in English.  It’s an aspect of the mental development we stri...

Awareness makes budo work. Without it, it doesn’t matter how good  your maegeri or your uchimata is.  You’re going to get clocked before y...