Cook Ding's Kitchen

Below is an excerpt from a post that appeared at Budo Journeyman regarding the author's insights into the challenges and rewards to tea...

At the Ichijoji Blog , there was an interesting essay about kata and it's role in developing the necessary mental qualities required for...

At Thoughts on Tai Chi , there was recently a post about the how the mind creates the structure of the body, and how if one's mind is di...

At Zen's Sekai, the author recently posted his thoughts regarding his Taijiquan and Kyudo practice in the context of aging. An excerpt ...

At Ellis Amdur's Kogen Budo Blog, there was a recent post where the author reminisces about his early days training in Japan ... in Ch...

Over at Ichijoji , the author recently had an interesting post about a bukuto (bokken) that he recently bought.  These training swords come ...

At Zen Sekai's blog , there was a recent post about yet another martial art the author is studying and how he sees all of his practices ...

At Ellis Amdur's Kogen Budo blog , there was a remembrance of Quintin Chambers , one of the first westerners to study classical Japanes...

Over at his substack, Peter Boylan had an interesting article about the transition one must make from a modern budo (judo, karate, etc) to ...