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There is a saying in Japanese martial arts, Shu Ha Ri. It has to do with the learning process. Below in an excerpt from an excellent artic...

If you've got six minute, listen and watch this outstanding performance. Turn up the volume at the beginning to hear the rainstorm.

Sensei Strange over at KyuRyu AikiBudo has been coming up with good video after good video. I thought I should do my part as well. Yoshin...

Ok. This is all of the fault of Striking Thoughts . I was sitting around, minding my own business when he tags me with this meme. Ok, here ...

Below is an excerpt from an article by Nick Lowry, a senior martial artist regarding something which is at the heart of a martial art, viol...

Over at the Wujiquan blog, Josh has had a string of excellent posts on Taijiquan theory. If you're interested in Taijiquan, they're...

Below is an excerpt from an interview with one of the most senior Yoshinkan Aikido instructors in North America, Yukio Utada. The rest of t...

Next to Sun Tzu's Art of War, the 36 Strategies is the most widely known book on strategy in Asia. Were the Art of War is a methodical o...

In 1977, San Francisco's Chinatown experienced the most public expression of gangland violence, the infamous Golden Dragon Massacre. Fo...