Budo is about traveling a path.  It’s not about being stuck in one place.  The road is always there, time is always moving and the w...

In my last post I wrote about ukemi　 受身 , or receiving techniques. Proficiency in ukemi is important in arts like judo and aikido where pr...

Kuzushi means “off-balancing.” Everyone knows that. It’s been translated that way for decades. Off-balancing must be an accurate transla...

I’ve been thinking lately about how pointless the study of koryu budo would be if we were just preserving the way people trained 200 or ...