Trust is a wonderful thing.  Real trust is something that is earned over time.  In budo practice, trust is absolutely essential.  What we d...

Someone asked on a discussion board “How important (or unimportant) do folks here feel Japanese customs are important to learning Aikido?  ...

Some genius named Sam Harris got together Steven Graff Levine (former California DA and now a defense attorny), Rory Miller (former National...

It has occurred to me that practicing martial arts for self-defense is not that sensible an idea.  On the surface, it makes a lot of sense....

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...