I have been working on individual kihon techniques quite a lot recently as part of my shodan preparations and have come to the conclusion th...

If you were to stretch the whole of martial arts out along a continuum so that at one end you had the purely ‘jutsu’ systems (very applied ...

Muscle memory is a common phrase associated with the martial arts as well as in other sports, playing a musical instrument, riding a bike or...

I was inspired to write this post by Michele’s post, “Things I only understood after Black Belt”. Of course I don’t really know what things ...

The most popular post I have published on the SSK blog (by far) is one I wrote a few months ago where I provided a reading list of martial a...