August - 2017

The cold hard stare 目線

Over the years I have found that merely imagining an opponent in front of me is not enough. You really have to visualise this person in...

正速強威 (Sei-Soku-Kyou-I)

There is an old teaching that my teacher has taught me years ago. (I even had a t-shirt made!!) I find it very applicable even to daily...

Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

「斬りおろし」Kirioroshi, the most basic strike one will have to learn in any Japanese sword related martial arts. Seemingly simple, cut in a...

Be like water (水五訓 )

水五訓 Mizugokun (Five Principles of Water) 自ら流動して他を動かしむるは水なり - Flowing by itself moving others, that is WATER. 障害に遭いてその力を百倍し得るは水なり -...

Don't let your thoughts inhibit your action.

The Story of Satori (悟) While logging in the mountains one day, a lumberjack came upon a Satori, a mind reading monster. The lumberjack...

Zanshin (残心)

In Iaido and many Japanese martial arts, there is a concept known as Zanshin (残心). It describes the mindset at the end of a...