Kuzushi means “off-balancing.” Everyone knows that. It’s been translated that way for decades. Off-balancing must be an accurate transla...

Let’s face an unpleasant truth.  Most martial arts instructors are lousy teachers. They may be great martial artists, but few of them k...

I am obsessed with developing proper koshi . My iai teacher, Kiyama Hiroshi, has been kicking my butt about my koshi for decades, and I’m ...

Photo Copyright Peter Boylan 2014 I hosted a budo seminar last weekend. It was attended by a small, focused group of experienced bud...

Photo Copyright 2014 Grigoris Miliaresis There is no opponent in front of him, but you can tell he sees where teki is anyway. Someon...

I’ve been thinking lately about how pointless the study of koryu budo would be if we were just preserving the way people trained 200 or ...