Teacher, Friends And Peers Photo copyright Kumiko Yamada 2015 I wrote most of this while recovering from my most recent trip to J...

Let’s face an unpleasant truth.  Most martial arts instructors are lousy teachers. They may be great martial artists, but few of them k...

Who is your teacher? Not just the person you see when she’s standing in front of the dojo leading practice, but the whole person. Where di...

                Budo practice is intense and serious business.  After all, we are practicing techniques for hurting and killing each other...

I write a lot about my teachers, how important they are to me, what they teach me and our relationship.   With a few exceptions thoug...

I am sitting in Los Angeles Airport waiting to find out if my flight is going to Tokyo today or not.   There is a budo retreat with o...