A couple of weeks ago we had a visitor who had been training at another dojo in town for quite a while; several years actually. However,...

Had an interesting question recently on underlying structures of martial arts that on the surface was simple, but after I snapped off a...

Maestro - a Spanish term that I was first exposed to while growing up and living on a ranch in South Texas.  The term there (in cowboy...

Having just gone through a hurricane and attempting to keep everyone in the dojo in some form of communications and still not having...

Here in Houston about a week ago (before I got the electricity back on at home) a hurricane hit the coast about 90 miles from here. ...

I receive a lot of junk mail from clients and friends and for the most part quickly delete it based on nothing more than the subject line...

Got to the office this morning and was greeted by two serendipitous items. The first was a song being played on the web-stream that we...

I was a brand new black belt (wow, that was a long time ago, my how time flies) and while walking thru’ the grocery store a woman hit a...

Giri is a Japanese term that can be translated into functionally correct English but that really has no equivalent in English if one...

Once you get your black belt it's easy to lose focus, to slack off, and take a brief vacation from the intense training that you did to...

Yeesss! Today I made You-don-sha! I am now an 85th Dan, a Masta’, a Stud-Muffin! “Attention, attention, the Stud-Muffin has entered the...

Isn’t the motivation to come to class and train supposed to come from within? Isn’t it the Aikido players’ job to get him or herself to clas

In order to succeed in the martial arts one must have a long term vision or goal; a vision that keeps the mind focused and maintains...

I require everyone in my dojo to follow the old fashion (but common sense) social rules of never discussing sex, religion or politics as it

Aikido, at its’ purest essence, is an old-style martial art.

Teaching class in a dojo has many restrictions.  The lesson has to be brief and concise. It has to fit within a certain time span and...