Structure versus power    Photo Copyright Deborah Klens-Bigman 2020 We want powerful budo. Powerful budo is effective budo. Powerful...

I am obsessed with developing proper koshi . My iai teacher, Kiyama Hiroshi, has been kicking my butt about my koshi for decades, and I’m ...

Photo Copyright 2014 Grigoris Miliaresis I watched the Avengers: Age Of Ultron last week. I admit to being an old school comic book g...

Budo is about a lot of things, but one of the least discussed is responsibility.  The longer we practice the more important it is that we c...

                                                 “If the aikido training mat is the world, it’s the world under a magnifying glass. Subtl...