Tag Archives: budoka
Dojo Rules of Conflict
1. Distance or “Run away.” 2. Guard or “A good face is worth protecting.” 3. Strategy or “Strategy is everything and Everything is strategy.”
Lunge Punch – a note
A note from one of my students: Hi Joe, Just wanted to let you know that I check your page a couple times a week and find the blog both informative and insightful, and at times really funny — like the Iron Man vs Bruce Lee fight you just posted. Anyway, the lunge punch question [...]
Warrior heart
There is a wonderful saying that comes to us from the Gyokko Ryu Kosshijutsu tradition we study. Bushigokoro wo motte totoshi no nasu. In English we translate this as, “The warriors heart is precious and essential.”