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

We didn’t make a sound as we stared at each other. The room around me faded as I focused on my partner. I advanced into combative ma...

Photo Copyright Peter Boylan 2014 I hosted a budo seminar last weekend. It was attended by a small, focused group of experienced bud...

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...

A while back I wrote that you should never practice anything more than once .  There is a corollary to this, that you should never do more...