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Tuesday, August 25, 2026

A Cautionary Tale

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My wife was on Facebook the other day, and noticed a trend where people were asking ChatGPT to describe them as a warning to someone who mig...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Classical Martial Arts and Police Work During the Shogunate

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At Ellis Amdur's excellent Kogen Budo blog , there was a guest post describing how classical martial arts was employed during the Shogun...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Martial Discipline

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At the Okinawan Fighting Art, "Ti" blog, there was a recent post on martial arts training and discipline. And excerpt is below. T...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Japanese Koryu Martial Arts Transmission

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As a result of his excellent post, which I've posted an excerpt here ; The Budo Bum recently published a guest post by Tobin Threadgill,...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

The Dan Tian

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A central topic in almost all martial arts revolves around the DanTian (Tanden).  Below is an excerpt from a post that appeared recently at ...
Monday, August 10, 2026

Tension and Relaxation in Karate

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At the Budo Journeyman , there was an interesting article about excessive tension, as well as relaxation in karate training, which applies i...
Friday, August 07, 2026

Budo: A Work in Progress

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At The Budo Bum , there was an interesting article about Budo not being a "thing" with clean edges and a definite beginning and en...
Sunday, July 05, 2026

Legacy Techniques in Koryu

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At T he Budo Bum , the author explored the question of whether the koryu (old classical) arts carried around with it the teaching of ineffic...
Thursday, July 02, 2026

The Still Point of Kyudo

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One of the things I have always liked about Kyudo as a Budo, is the stillness and settling which takes place before the shot. It's almo...
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