I first encountered this poet and calligrapher when I lived in Japan. His name is Aida Mitsuo. Some of my Japanese friends introduced me...

Zen teachers like to draw circles. Sometimes they draw them around from right to left, sometimes around from left to right. These circles ...

Face it friends, things are changing out there. YouTube, FaceBook, online communities, cell phones, the blog-o-sphere are all now major too...

I really like soft, slow, balance break push hands like this. I hope to be practicing like this a lot, later on in my career.

Here is a painting I finally finished. It is probably 3 feet by 4 feet, and heavily textured. In person the thick paint leaps out of the c...

Normally I would not use my martial arts blog to pontificate on my view of ethics, but on second thought, why would I not? The study of the...

I have noticed most students are terrible at changing from one wrist connection to the next, so I put together this little flow sequence. S...