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 ...

The classical arts of Japan (pre-1868) have a very different structure from the modern arts. The classical arts are entirely defined by the...