Will budo make me a better person? Not necessarily. Maybe. If you want it to. If you train properly..  There is an old idea that training...

I really like Rory Miller's stuff.  He's a former prison guard, judo man, and koryu jujutsu teacher.  Here he talks about how hard y...

There are lots of things about practice I don’t like.  I don’t like cleaning up afterward.  I don’t like all the little nit picky prepara...

Most of the techniques we teach in budo, whether it is karate or judo or aikido or anything else, are not simply dangerous.  They are ext...

My friend and colleague, The Rogue Scholar , did me the honor of responding to my post about Creating A Work Of Art .  I had argued that w...

2 hours on a flower marble and my arms are about to fall off... let's hope the kiln gods are kind... I kinda don't think i nailed ...

2 hours on a flower marble and my arms are about to fall off... let's hope the kiln gods are kind... I kinda don't think i nailed ...

I was reading a piece about Emily Post , the great master of etiquette, and the profound effect her book, Etiquette: In Society, in Busin...