Budo practice is intense and serious business.  After all, we are practicing techniques for hurting and killing each other...

I write a lot about my teachers, how important they are to me, what they teach me and our relationship.   With a few exceptions thoug...

Budo practice is exhilarating.  I’ve been searching for the right word to describe how I feel about practice and how it makes me feel for y...

I am sitting in Los Angeles Airport waiting to find out if my flight is going to Tokyo today or not.   There is a budo retreat with o...

I posted a slightly different version of this on a discussion board where the subject of Judo being in the Olympics came up.  Part of the ob...

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...