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

  Gekikenkai No Zu by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1873   I was asked recently how much I think koryu budo has changed over the generation...

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

A friend of mine asked about swords.  He was wondering which was a better investment for iaido practice, a sword made of high qualit...

Budo in the 21st century is an anachronism. Whether we are talking about koryu budo from the before 1868, or the gendai budo, the modern a...

The fundamental skill of budo is not particular kata or even special techniques. Those are built on something else. The techniques and ka...