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...

Budo.  We all train different arts.  We all have expectations and ideas about what our arts teach us.  It’s easy for us to imagine that the...

There are lots of different budo styles, and they each have their own way of doing things that is internally consistent.  Rennis Buchner, a ...

All the classical “Do” 道, or Ways, of Japan strive to achieve a better understanding of the world and the self.  It doesn’t matter whether ...

I’ve been traveling for work to areas where I don’t have access to dojo or gyms.  It can make training challenging.  I am training though...

Just train. A couple of things brought this in mind today as I sit in a conference room waiting for the big meeting to start.  One is how...

About 18 months ago, I made a couple of bad moves at judo practice and messed up my right knee pretty well..  It was quite painful at the...

Rory Miller is a remarkable martial artist with an amazing background: modern Judo, koryu jujutsu, and decades of experience in police and c...

I find myself recovering from knee surgery while spending weeks traveling far from home and living in a hotel for for work.  So for this ...

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...