I’m one of those annoying people who often tells people they should make a trip to Japan to train in their budo.  A lot of people wonder wh...

I ran across a question recently about long term motivation, and why people keep training year after year.  It was on George McCall’s excel...

I'm headed off to Japan in few days to spend a week and a half with my sword teacher, Kiyama Hiroshi.  Kiyama Sensei is 88 years old, ha...

I’ve run across some discussions within gendai budo arts with people talking about the varying qualities of the uke they encounter as they ...

I spend a lot of time writing about the more philosophical aspects of budo, but there is a concrete area that I believe is close to univers...

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