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

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

  Adam Grandt, Deborah Klens-Bigman, Kiyama Hiroshi, Peter Boylan.  Photo copyright Peter Boylan 2023 I still remember clearly, the first ...

  Kiyama Hiroshi Shihan. Photo copyright Yamada Kumiko. F or some, no. For some yes. I think part of it has to be conveyed through intensity...

Tendo Ryu. Photo copyright Peter Boylan 2019 Most people don’t know it, but there is a  Budo Law of Conservation of Movement. Budo is cons...

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