Photo Copyright Girgoris Miliaresis 2014   Nearly everyone in the gendai (modern) budo world talks about taking ukemi (receiving a techn...

I've written before about the responsibility a teacher has for their students in Japanese martial arts. Here is a great example. A sumo ...

  Great day of training. It must have been 95F (35C) in the dojo, though. I talk a lot about the benefits of budo. We go to the dojo and w...

  Photo Credit Patricia Anderson Copyright 2023 Koryu budo schools teach many things: strikes, throwing techniques, joint locks, strangles...

  Adam Grandt, Deborah Klens-Bigman, Kiyama Hiroshi, Peter Boylan.  Photo copyright Peter Boylan 2023 I still remember clearly, the first ...

  Kiyama Hiroshi Shihan. Photo copyright Yamada Kumiko. F or some, no. For some yes. I think part of it has to be conveyed through intensity...