There is a lot of philosophizing that goes on in budo circles.  I know that I am in the first rank of those guilty of it.  There is far t...

I wrote about the responsibility of rank in my last post, and then I discovered this fabulous post by Wayne Muromoto about teaching in budo,...

I got involved in the another discussion about the real importance and value of rank again.  This conversation has been around since at lea...

I’m blowing a gasket about budo just now. Dr. Ann Maria DeMars, the first US women's world judo champion reduces the benefits of judo t...

I have a few rules of budo.  Maybe you can add some more. The Laws Of Budo 1.  Don't be there.  Don't be where the fight starts....

This started as a quick note I was going to toss off in a couple of minutes.  More than an hour later it had gotten a little out of hand.  ...

Leading up to the New Year, I ran across a number of proposals for people to make a special effort and do some sort of training every day. ...

I write a lot about how to train in kata, and uke's role in pushing and stressing their partner by changing the speed, rhythm, timing a...

                                                 “If the aikido training mat is the world, it’s the world under a magnifying glass. Subtl...