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A bi-weekly podcast exploring classic writings as they relate to the modern martial artist. Find us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/walkingtengu Check out our reading list at: https:/...
What does ancient Greek myth have to do with classical Jaampanese martial arts training concepts? Listen to the story of Hermes stealing Apo...
The twelve labors or tasks of Heracles is a mythic story loaded with a lot of practical symbolism to unpack. In what may be my longest episo...
Join me as we look at Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and The Sea" and read it through the lens of martial arts training. There are...
What's in a name? What do you do when your art has four different names for the same move? We look at Frege's Puzzle in this episode and app...
In this episode we look at two parables from the work known as the Zhuangzi that relate to things martial artists care about. Specifically t...
For any sufficiently strong mathematical theory, there are truths that cannot be proven by that theory. If martial arts systems are formal s...
Welcome to 2026. Let's look at a couple short quotes, one from "The Unfettered Mind" by Takuan Soho and another from "The Life-Giving Sword"...
Closing out 2025 with a short meditation on the end of the year. Check out the pocket sized book of short quotes and meditations I wrote, pa...
Today, I meditate on how we should face death. Inspired by a chapter from the Budoushoshinshu by Daidouji Yuuzan that I had previously passe...
It can be dangerous to discuss politics in general, let alone in the martial arts world. Yet, Jonathan Bluestein wrote a book about it. I hi...
Ever been told to use less strength and focus on technique?This is both true and not entirely accurate. What we need to actually do is learn...
What happens when you give monkeys 3 measures of acorns in the morning and 4 at night? They get angry. But what happens when you give them 4...
Have you ever been traveling, stuck somewhere, or whatever reason not been able to get in some training? Today I share for exercises for squ...
What can one learn from a video instructional from a classical Japanese martial art? I think quite a bit, though it may not immediately be o...
Today we look at just a small set of the lessons to be found in Jonathan Bluestein's book "The Martial Arts Teacher" These include assuming...
Today we look at the first book from the "Secrets of Itto-ryu" by Sasamori Junzo and translated by Mark Hague. Ono-ha Itto-ryu is closely li...
When an atrocity is committed against someone, are they justified in committing an atrocity in return? We look at what is a justifiable resp...
Today we have two short parables that contain big lessons for martial artists and we look at how this applies to determining if a martial ar...
Did you know the Vikings had their own version of the crazy cat lady? Except his nickname was "the Sledgehammer" and his twenty magical cats...
I've talked about a few of my confrontations over the years and how they all amounted to nothing happening. Today, I relate the story of the...
The bad neighbor Hrolleif finally gets justice served after killing Ingimund. Though Thorstein uses quite a bit of strategy to bring it abou...
I again tackle the topic of etiquette in the martial arts, why American culture is dying, why etiquette is a reflection of the health of a s...
We have another story from the Zhuangzi today. About a little frog in a well and a turtle who tells him of something impossible called "the...
We return to the Zhuangzi today where we hear the tale of a monkey who showed off to a king and got some unintended consequences despite his...
In this episode we look at a new book coming out in November in the US and December 2023 globally. It is being published by YMAA. I have sev...
We meet Hrolleif and his mother Ljot who are the worst neighbors ever in this section. Find out how salmon fishing brings about the end of d...
Ingimund finally gives in to "fate" and moves to Iceland. We find out he's pretty boring at naming things and that he's not above manipulati...
Our saga takes us through the battle of Havsfjord, a kind of Norwegian battle of Sekigahara, and into the fate and destiny that eventually d...
We continue the saga of the people of Vatnsdal today. Thorstein gets married, has a son and we learn a bit about naval combat between Viking...
We begin the saga of the people of Vatnsdal today. As we see how standards about great deeds, some backhanded comments, and a very large ban...
We lay the groundwork for looking at the Icelandic Sagas today. What philosophical ideas did they hold about ethics, violence, and the inter...
What is the "art of fighting without fighting?" Where did Bruce Lee get the idea for this story and what classical Japanese work did it orig...
When we suspect things are going to go bad more than is realistic then we are susceptible to the pessimism bias. Find out how car tires and...
How could iaido, a solo form based method of sword-drawing, have any practical impact on my jiu-jitsu training? Having freshly returned from...
When we judge the likelihood of future events based on how often they have occurred in the past we engage in something that can be called Th...
Inspired by Randel Davis from the Kung Fu Conversations podcast (@kfconversations) Dean Suter of the Musha Shugyo podcast (@mushashugyopodca...
Today we return to our origins with a short story or parable from Issai Chozanshi's Daoist work the Inaka Soshi , sometimes translated as "T...
This first bias we look at is known as "fundamental attribution error." This is when we judge others differently than how we judge ourselves...
This first fallacy we look at is known as anecdotal. Often referred to as "anecdotal evidence" we find this fallacy all through the martial...
We spend a lot of time talking about physical self-defense. However, what can we do to protect our minds from being led astray or manipulate...
What does one do when the warrior ethos calls someone to do something to express loyalty and gratitude... but the laws of the nation prohibi...
What happens when we give strategic advice and it goes bad? What does this have to do with Victorian era sea-captains? Why did Daidouji thin...
How do we handle unlikely events that can have negative outcomes we are unwilling to accept? What should we think about when we want to keep...
Daidouji speaks directly to the idea of training in the martial arts in this episode. What kind of person looks like a martial artist? Who s...
We get some discussion on budgeting for samurai armor, how to equip your servants, and considerations to prepare for when your head is cut o...
Daidouji Yuuzan gives us some thoughts on situational awareness when traveling. There are a lot of reasons why a samurai might be traveling...
Daidouji has a number of chapters that are basically tips for samurai who are traveling. I've combined a few of these into a short episode w...
Today we hear a story from the Keicho era (1596-1615) about a warrior named Tsukuda Mataemon and a misperception about his spear. We then lo...
How we respond to people when we are asked to do something difficult or unpleasant matters. Daidouji Yuuzan writes on this topic today for y...
The decisions about why you are willing to commit violence and for what reasons you are willing to die should be considered deeply long befo...