We like training.  It’s fun. We value it.  Training is good for us.  That’s why we do it.  We like what we are doing and what it does for u...

Kata are mechanical and rigid.  They teach petrified patterns and leave the person vulnerable if their partner does something different fro...

Many people think of artists and musicians as somehow being weaker.  Today I read an article reminded me of that and of a post I wrote a whi...

I must be getting old.  I’m certainly getting out of touch.  I find that techniques bore me.   This is surprising because I can readily rem...

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...