A while back I wrote that you should never practice anything more than once .  There is a corollary to this, that you should never do more...

While visiting Japan recently, I had the opportunity to visit an old friend who represents one of the rarest and most beautiful facets of ...

This blog post is an attempt to give a reasonably complete answer to a question in reply to a post here . I would say that it is possible...

Should budo teachers be professional?  This is a discussion that comes up with fair regularity in modern and classical budo circles.  They ...

I just came back from a wonderful visit to Japan.  I was able to train intensively in iaido and jodo, including 3 days with 4 or more hours...

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...