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Lately I’ve been thinking about this whole “kata” issue. More correctly, changes. I’ve...

I remember being at this great seminar once, covering all kinds of nifty kata application principles, when, su...

This weekend I’m going to do a seminar on the kata Anan, and when I give seminars I always do a theory s...

This is the second part of ‘My System: Karate-jutsu’. If you haven’t read part 1, then you s...

I recently received a very handsome e-mail from a very handsome reader. It goes (slightly abbreviated): “...

"Well, it just isn't as easy as I thought it would be! I mean, it's not like they advertise exactly." "What...

When people don’t understand things, they often find it easier to create their own explanations rather t...

Imagine that you are living in a small village, hidden deep in a valley somewhere in a land far away. You don�...

Look up the word ‘Karate Globetrotter’ in the dictionary, and chances are big that you won’t...

Folks... We are standing on the brink of revolution....

Translated by Mark Tankosich MA, this essay, originally written by the founder of Shito-ryu Karate (Mabuni Ke...