The Trickster's Path - Hermes, Apollo's Cattle, and Shu-Ha-Ri
What does ancient Greek myth have to do with classical Jaampanese martial arts training concepts? Listen to the story of Hermes stealing Apo...
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The Twelve Labors of Heracles
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...
Hemingway: The Old Man And The Sea
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...
Frege's Puzzle: What's In A Name?
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...
Zhuangzi: Wuwei and Ziran For Our Times
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...
Gödel's Theorem
For any sufficiently strong mathematical theory, there are truths that cannot be proven by that theory. If martial arts systems are formal s...
Starting The Year Off Right
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"...
End Of The Year Meditation 2025
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...
Budoushoshinshu: How To Face Death
Today, I meditate on how we should face death. Inspired by a chapter from the Budoushoshinshu by Daidouji Yuuzan that I had previously passe...
Martial Arts Politics Explained
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...
Tension
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...
Zhuangzi: Giving Monkeys Acorns
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...
What Do You Do When You Can't Train?
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...
Ono-ha Itto-ryu Video: Volume 1 - Kiriotoshi
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...
The Martial Arts Teacher
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...
Secrets of Itto-ryu
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...
Revenge
When an atrocity is committed against someone, are they justified in committing an atrocity in return? We look at what is a justifiable resp...
Zhuangzi: What Is Useful?
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...
Vatnsdal Saga 7 - Headlock Defenses In A Swamp
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...
Real Life Incident: The Value Of Confidence
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...
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