Ono-ha Itto Ryu.  Photo Copyright 2015 Grigoris Miliaresis The movie hero studies and studies to learn the secret technique that will...

Budo in the 21st century is an anachronism. Whether we are talking about koryu budo from the before 1868, or the gendai budo, the modern a...

The fundamental skill of budo is not particular kata or even special techniques. Those are built on something else. The techniques and ka...

Photo Copyright 2014 Grigoris Miliaresis I was reading one of Ellis Amdur’s essays his excellent book Old School , in which h...

  Photo Copyright Grigoris Miliaresis 2014 I had a conversation with one of my Shinto Muso Ryu students that was interesting. H...

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...