Sensei's Journal

Introduction	No Time to Spare	Do Without Jutsu 2
What are You Thinking?	Save the Wails!	The Anti-Martial Arts Mentality
How to Choose A Martial Arts School	Maintaining Standards	Approachability and Aura
The Refuse of Antiquity	The Cost of DO-ing Business	Understanding a Martial Art
Martial or Artist?	Quiet Pride	Emphases, Age, and Martial Arts
Judge A School by its Students	Dojo Elegance	Why Bushido-kai Semianrs Differ 1
Studio, Dojo? School or Business?	The Disappointment of Achieving	Why Bushido-kai Seminars Differ 2
The Rarity of Ratiionality	Journey, Distination, and Redefinition	Training Toward Perfection
Big is Beautiful, Small is Functional	But I Still Can't Defend Myself 1	Measuring One's Goal of Perfection
Do What You See Yourself Doing	But I Still Can't Defend Myself 2	Body, Mind, Spirit, Socialization 1
Karate-do, Karate-show	I Want My Child Tough, Not a Bully	Body, Mind, Spirit, Socialization 2
Contracts and Commitment	Bow to Your Seniors!	Teaching Toward a Sense of Joy 1
The Student Decides	I Don't Want All This Mumbo Jumbo	Teaching Toward a Sense of Joy 2
Unexpected Challenges	The Military Analogy	Why Grappling is Great
The Benefits of Budo	The Academic Analogy	The Real vs. the Elegant
Martial Arts Adolescence	The Artisan Analogy	The Disappointment of Non-reality
Recognition and Arrival	The Use of Private Lessons	Cross-cultural Mutations
The Challenge of Intermediates	Experience is the Greatest Teacher	Fusion, Hybrid, Mash-up 1
On To Greater Glory: Intermediates	Genealogy Legitimazes and Limits	Fusion, Hybrid, Mash-up 2
The Value of Rank	Regulations as Good Business? 1	The Hovering Threat 1
The Subject of Self-control	Regulation as Good Business? 2	The Hovering Threat 2
Sure, Self-development, but How?	Traditional vs. Eclectic	Discerning Giri
Teaching in Detail	Martial Arts Little League?	Trends of the Half-century
To Control Violence, Face It	Ranks are Goals, Goals are not Ranks	Where I am Not a Fan of Kata
No One Wants To Be Ordinary	Satisfying Six Human Needs	The Hedgehog and the Fox
Aspiring to a Future that is Ancient	The First Day at BUSHIDO-KAI	Dreaded Steel Gaunlet
Old Dogs, New Tricks 1	Learning vs. Understanding	Context, Sport, and Art
Old Dogs, New Tricks II	Wellness and the Adult Martial Arts	Where I Am a Fan of MMA
No One Does That to Me	The Root of Credit (and Blame)	Not Having Been a Martial Artist
Speaking Softly, Stick or No Stick	Martial Sports and the Alpha Male	Applicaiton over Theory 1
Why Martial Arts Have Styles	Martial Arts and the Alpha Male	Application over Theory 2
Cultural Types of Martial Arts	The Art and Unconscious Competence	A Base for Corrections
Country Rivalries	Definitions	Truth, Half-truth, Anything but...
My Johnny is a Blue Belt Already!	Customizing Your Martial Art 1	Now That I'm a Samurai...
The Youngest Black Belt	Customizing Your Martial Art 2	There's a Light...
Apples and Oranges	Do Without Jutsu 1	ARTICLES CONTINUED below left

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ARTICLES CONTINUED  here	A Part for the Whole	Getting Older Younger 2
Positioning for the Future 1	The Poetry of Aiki	Renaming Reality
Positioning for the Future 2	The Order of Things	Winning
Positioning for the Future 3	The Hallway Drawer	The Clown at Midnight
Wrestlling,Self-defense,Popularization	Wasted Efforts 1	Creative and Recreative 1
The Culture is Broken	Wasted Efforts 2	Creative and Recreative 2
We've Seen the Enemy...	Closing the Door	Creative and Recreative 3
A Rose by Any Other Name...	Spiralling from the Base	Political Extremism
Balancing Budo Goals	Hypocrites	Back to Basics
Professor Wally Jay Memoriam	Inaccessible	Fundamentality
Guiding Principles	The Art is Long	Before and After
Holistic Martial Arts 1	Breaking in the Old Guys	Violentce without Blood
Holistic Martial Arts 2	Carnegie for Your Melon	Live n Peace
Holistic Martial Arts 3	What You See Gets You	Pacify to Live
A Reasonable Man	An Honest Man 1	Fantasyland
Thirst for Victory	An Honest Man 2	Adventureland
To Sacrfice the Gift	Learning by Imitation 1	Ambidextrous Philosphy 1
Chump vs. Champ vs. Contributor	Learning by Imitation 2	Ambidextrous Philosphy 2
Reinventing Oneself 1	Worthy of Being Pass On 1	Habits, Regimens, Traditions
Reinventing Oneself 2	Worthy of Being Pass On 2	Reminders
Reinventing Oneself 3	Goal vs. Purpose	Art or Attitude?
Character/Confidence	Ai-uchi vs. Ai-nuke 1	Art, Attitude and Instruction
Character and Human Needs	Ai-uchi vs. Ai-nuke 2	Your Art is Not Self-defense 1
Character-building Budo	Pity the Incomplete	Your Art is Not Self-defense 2
Endeavoring for High Fidelity	Three Kinds of People	Reminder...
Loyalty and Liberal Arts 1	The Sand Pile Model	Invisible Service
Loyalty and Liberal Arts 2	What We've Done to Ourselves	Same But Different
The Advantages of Group Classes	The Reason We Train	Details and Occam's Razor
Why Perfection is Important 1	To Mend the Tear	Making an Argument
Why Perfection is Important 2	A Teacher's Dilemma	Flickered Out
Blissful Aikido	Good Enough To Pass	Study Extensively
Why Flourishing = Failing	Wrong Arena?	Inquire Carefully
Translating Budo 1	Lost Grandeur?	Ponder Thoroughly
Translating Budo 2	Talent vs. Genius	Sift Clearly
Leaving Your Kata Behind	Editing and Art	Practice Earnestly
Budo as an Exercise in Loss	Getting Older Younger 1	ARTICLES CONTINUED below left

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ARTICLES CONTINUED  here	Plateaus	Grated Parmesan 1
Using Fantasy	Being Important	Grated Parmesan 2
Doubt and Tradition	False Blossoms	Bean Mud
The Suzuki Budo Method	Allatonceness	The Older, the Younger
Proper Emotions 1	Doing the Unexpected	Henka
Proper Emotions 2	Limiting Choice 1	My Dog's Bigger
Framing the Budo	Limiting Choice 2	Innovative Traditionalists
Right by Rote?	Signs and Symbols 1	When to Spar
Proving vs. Improving 1	Sings and Symbols 2	Savior or Destroyer?
Proving vs. Improving 2	Orientalizing the West	Too Hard, Too Soft
Martial Arts as a True Profession 1	Like Second Nature	Little Blue Book
Martial Arts as a True Profession 2	Falsifiability	10,000 Techniques
Dynamic Traditionalism 1	Thinking Outside the Lines	10,001 Techniques
Dynamic Traditionalsim 2	A Meaningful Life	Wanting It All
So Near...	Cultishness	Rank, Ego, & Trust
...and Yet So Far	Dullfulness	Cracking The Mold
Authority and Reason	The Inner Game	Rebuilding The Mold
Knowledge like Water	I Meant To Do That	Renovating The Traditional Mold
A Tradition of Innovation 1	Now What Do You Have? 1	Mu-gamae
A Tradition of Innovation 2	Now What Do You Have? 2	Competition Vs Contribution
A Tradition of Innovation 3	Chikusho Budo	Contributing Late
The Map is Not the Territory	Unchanging Form	Competition Contribution, Big Picture
Not for Everyone	Push-Pull	Rifts and Harmony
Inheriting Biases	The Implications of Puns	Accepting Attitude
Diversity vs. Bias	The Root of Imperturbability	Rifts, Harmony, and Attitude
Diversity and Multiple Martial Arts	Having a Choice	Precision as a False Friend
But My Other Sensei	Fiction, Truth, and Training	Definitive Essence
Challenging Variations	Having A Black Belt	Promotion on Principle 1
Budo Soup	Efficiency and Laziness	Promotion on Principle 2
Through Limitation	Bubbles in the Brew	Promotion on Principle 3
In One's Own House	Blowing Bubbles Into the Brew	A Martial Salute
Categorizations...Divisions	Pushing North	Aiki Meets Jujutsu Meets Judo
Creative Conformity	Lexicography and Kata	An Incomplete Knowledge
I Can Do That	Pure Technique	Creative Budo 1
Have You Ever Had to Use it...?	Duplicating Technique	Creative Budo 2
Courageous Enough	The Advantage of Distance	ARTICLES CONTINUED below left

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ARTICLES CONTINUED	Ease of Movement
Mitsunari KANAI 1	Both Sides Now
Mitsunari KANAI 2	The Missing Kumite
Ed Parker	Tests of Kindness
Tsutomo OHSHIMA	Jamming & Performing
Wally Jay	Depth of Budo 1
Albert C. Church, Jr. 1	Depth of Budo 2
Albert C. Church, Jr. 2	Test Some Food
Keiko FUKUDA	A Pile of Bricks
Nobuyoshi TAMURA	White Cranes
Richard Kim	Selflessnesshood 1
Joe Cowles	Selflessnesshood 2
Morihiro SAITO	Woolworthian Budo
Masatoshi NAKAYAMA	It's Only a Book
Nick Cerio & Danial Pai	Adulteration vs. Customization
Toru TANAKA	Training vs. Studying
Charlie Chaves & Jim Bregman	Choice & Choicelessness
Shigeru KIMURA & Teruo CHINEN	Form to Formlessness
Tony Mirakian	Intent and Austerity
William CHEUNG & Willliam CHEN	DEN, Okuden, & Hiden
Don Angier 1	One-way Karate
Don Angier 2	Corny Values
Seigo OKAMOTO	Teaching through PCNs
Remy Presas	Lasting Legacies
Mas TSURUOKA & Prof. Vee	Rewards & Challenges 1
Contemporary Seniors 1	Rewards & Challenges 2
Contemporary Seniors 2	Rewards & Challenges 3
Contemporary Seniors 3	Everything Flows
First Drafts 1	Killing the Art
First Drafts 2	Techniques are Tools
Joe Palooka Martial Artist	Techniques Take Time 1
Joe Palooka vs. Rocky	Techniques Take Time 2
Joe Palooka Approved	Hard, Soft, & Intuition
Sheaths that Secure	Why Can't Karate Be Soft?
Why Do You Really Like Your Art?	The Concept of Intellectual Budo
Solving Training Mysteries	A Fundamental Misunderstanding	ARTICLES CONTINUED below left

 

 

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