I wrote in an earlier post last month about regarding my thoughts on stretching. Here is another article in the New York Times regarding the latest findings. As I had discussed it seems that a little tightness / inflexibility may be a good thing for...

To me probably the two finest newspapers in the world are the Financial Times and the New York Times (although I mainly read its international incarnation - the International Herald Tribune). The New York Times stories on Health and Sports do much to...

I finally received my copy of Transparent Power a couple of days ago through Amazon, although you can purchase it here. On one hand, it was very inspiring to read about Yukiyoshi Sagawa 佐川幸義, who like Osensei was a student of Takeda Sokaku,...

One of the major gripes I have is with regard to the sometimes low level of reporting of Aikido in magazines and newspapers (and sometimes in dedicated publications such as Aikido Journal). What I mean is the usually stories that are regurgitated about...

This was a book that Sifu bought for me last week, and I got to reading it over the weekend, it provides information on the baguazhang of 史計棟 Shi Ji Dong, one of the disciples of Dong Haichuan 董海川 . This style is generally less well known...