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Strength in Unity

Article by: Donald Miskel

My brethren; this is not a religious dissertation though you’ll find some quotes the Bible used to illustrate a point or two. I admonish those of my brothers who are not Christian to bear with me and not turn away from the truth that I’m trying to expound. As much as I would like to [...]

A Samurai . . . To Serve

Article by: Allen Woodman

When martial artists think of a warrior figure that exemplifies the meaning of their training and their art, they usually think of a traditional Japanese Samurai, an eloquently dressed and immaculately armed warrior of Feudal Japan. The mental picture is of a Japanese warrior wearing an overstated ensemble of weapons and armor, including the most [...]

Reunion

Article by: John Wallace

At the age of seventeen I began studying Judo. Small and slight of build, but with an acumen for basketball none-the-less, I was finding it necessary to defend myself on the basketball court when bigger players became frustrated with me and began to rough me up when simply guarding me proved ineffective. I had grown [...]

Transitions

Article by: John Wallace

I suspect that like some martial artists, my martial arts journey has been unusual in that I drifted away from the arts for a while and then returned to them after a considerable absence. I began my studies at age seventeen with the legendary Judo Sensei Don Schneider, in the Tidewater judo Club of Norfolk, [...]

Students of the Heart

Article by: Donald Miskel

In my fifty five plus years of studying, researching and teaching the martial arts I have had only a few personal, closed door students. In years past in Japan and Okinawa an uchi deshi was a live-in student. Since it’s hard to find a wife who will allow you to move a private student into [...]

The Pinan / Heian Series as a Fighting System: Part Four

Article by: Iain Abernethy

Welcome to part four of this series of articles on the Pinan and Heian katas as a fighting system. In the first of this series of articles, we looked at the background of the Pinan / Heian katas and discussed how they are said to represent a complete fighting system that contains techniques for use [...]

Haiku for Miyamoto Musashi

Article by: Stephen Kaufman

Dedicated to the Book of Five Rings one hundred haiku Musashi your voice is mine I am your wisdom In this brief volume I have created a series of haiku in classical 5,7,5 meter to celebrate our most profound father and master, Miyamoto Musashi. The inordinate influence of who many consider to be kensei, the sword [...]

Body Alarm Reaction (BAR) Chapter 9

Article by: Russell Stutely

If I were to choose one aspect of Martial Arts training above all others then BAR would be it. This is the most misunderstood subject and yet the most important. Many people have discussed over the years the psychological and physiological aspects of a fight situation. The fight or flight syndrome. The chemical reactions that [...]

White Belt Karate for The Black Belt Fighter

Article by: Donald Miskel

There has always been a marked difference between karate do and karate jitsu. Actually at one time there was no karate do. There was only karate or as it was called in its earlier incarnation, tode. First and foremost karate was a tool. It was a fighting system; a tool for survival in an often [...]

True Humility

Article by: John Wallace

Interesting talk on the phone today with my old-time Judo Sensei, Don Schneider. Due to the vagaries of an article which appeared about him in our then-local paper, some 38 years ago, I have always been under the impression that he earned a place on the 1976 US Olympic Judo Team by coming out to [...]

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