The Budo Bum

My blogs

• The Budo Bum

Blogs I follow

• blog - judo journeys
• Bugei Books | Fine books on the Classical Martial Arts of Japan
• Chiron
• Cook Ding's Kitchen
• Friends In Ramen
• Ichijoji
• Jane Friedman
• judospace
• MacYoung's Musings
• Managing with judo
• Markus Sesko
• Martial Secrets » Blog
• Mokuren Dojo
• Muhuhahaha: The Diary of a Mad Scientist
• Musha Shugyô
• Neil Gaiman's Journal
• OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN
• Rogue Scholar NYC
• Saladin Ahmed
• Shugyo
• Storytrade | Make it up as we go along
• The Business/Judo of Life
• The Daily Glean
• The Dao of Strategy
• The Finishing School
• The New Adventures of Stephen Fry » Blog
• The Stick Chick
• Tom Lawson Artist - Blog
• Unka Kim's bloggie thingie
• When Night Turns to Day - a dramatic feature film by Amy Guggenheim
• You Are Not So Smart
• 京都研修 Kyoto kenshu |     合気道と京都についてのブログって blogging about aikido and Kyoto
• 仗剣求道 (Finding My Way Through the Sword) | My Training Diary

About me

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Introduction

I've been journeying on the martial path since 1986 when I started Kodokan Judo in a college class. I've been studying budo ever since. In 1990 I moved to Japan where I continued to study Judo, and added Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu, Shinto Muso Ryu, and Shinto Hatakage Ryu. I haven't practiced Eishin Ryu much in recent years, preferring to focus on Shinto Hatakage Ryu. Since 1999 I've lived in the US, but I still make frequent trips to Japan.