Photo Copyright 2015 Grigoris Miliaresis This one is for Scott Halls. From the Kenkyusha Online Dictionary へいじょうしん 【平常心】 (heijs...

There are no advanced techniques.  Really.  Early in my budo career, I was looking for the secret techniques and mysterious skills that wou...

I write a lot about how to train in kata, and uke's role in pushing and stressing their partner by changing the speed, rhythm, timing a...

I saw someone comment that : “my Sa Bom Nim says, "You can't learn something until you are ready to learn it." That's w...

Kata practice in koryu is tough. Even knowing exactly what your partner will do doesn’t make it easy. Unfortunately, you don’t know precis...