Todd Hardy

What was predominately a male activity has slowly been changing over the last few decades.You now can go into any training hall where martial arts are being taught and often find more women than men practising. Their approach...

It is said that in order to draw the silk from a silkworm’s cocoon, you need to do so in a constant smooth movement.If done fast or jerky or changing direction too much, the silk will break. If too slow, it will tangle.So...

Breathing is probably the single most important aspect of the martial arts.We can all learn.Earlier, I wrote about the time and the area where Tai Chi is generally believed to have been formalized, and thus recognized, as what...

“I have been many years training in the Way of Strategy, Ni Ten Ichi Ryu, and now I think I will explain it in writing for the first time.”It is now during the first 10 days of the tenth month in the twentieth year...

On the island of Okinawa, there is a cultural sport called bullfighting.It is quite different from bullfighting in Spain. There, the bull takes on a man. It is very flamboyant, but it can also be very gruesome.In Okinawa, they...

Chop wood, haul water …It was the very simple movement of mopping the floor that taught me the circular motion and energy needed to do a mid-level block. Like the famous scene in the original Karate Kid movie, I discovered...