What we do in the dojo needs to be real. It’s budo, not sport or athletics or some kind of game. We are practicing the serious art...

Martial arts and self-discipline are nearly synonymous in modern American culture. The benefits of developed self-discipline are heavily ...

Nakagawa Taizoh Sensei at his forge circa 1997 photo copyright Peter Boylan 1997 My dear friend and mentor, Nakagawa Taizoh passed ...

I was watching an otherwise excellent documentary by NHK called “Real Samurai” about modern practitioners of Tenshin Shoden Katori Shin...