Shiai. Photo Copyright 2015 Grigoris Miliaresis Competition seems like the ideal place to test your budo. You can test your techn...

One mistake I’m beginning to get over, is thinking that proverbs I hear in the dojo are not general to Japanese culture, but are somehow s...

忍 　（にん , Romanized “nin,” pronounced “neen” ） This is character for patience, endurance and perseverance.  I was going through some cal...

Up until last February, I had what I found to be a fairly strong Hiki Otoshi Uchi strike in Shinto Muso Ryu. Then I had the chance to t...