Although I teach Matsubayashi-Ryu, we have enhanced the curriculum by adding skills training outside of traditional karate do. Let me be...

Palmer Renshi receiving instruction from Nagamine Hanshi (undated) Note: Before writing this piece I did some research on available...

I've been studying, practicing, learning, and teaching Matsubayashi-Ryu karate-do since 1972, first on-base at Patrick AFB, FL and the...

If he were still alive today, 27 November, Bruce Lee would be 75 years old! Can you imagine? 75! To me he will always be 33. I remembe...

Mindfulness is the "secret" to mizo no kokoro ; mind like water. Another way of conceptualizing this is the when the practiti...

I was training a small group of visiting Wado-Ryu stylists in “Slow Zen – Mindfulness” training this weekend and we began taking about...

"If you can't be safe, be deadly." Unknown U.S. Army Ranger What is Okinawan-Karate really about? - Self-Defense? ...