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Inner Dharma hosted a blog concerned with classical and traditional martial arts and culture for a period of twenty years. Descriptions of events I have attended and reviewed, many with photos, can be found below along with a few essays I have combined and updated from shorter posts into longer works.

• essay : Kiai is Not a Sound

  Reflections on my practice of kenjutsu and how it has evolved over time.

• event : Kyoto & Nara

  Photos from visiting the Kansai area of Japan. Updates on the focus of my training.

• essay : Divergence and Unification in Shinkage-ryū

  Link to an essay on kata, heiho and shugyo, where I compare and contrast different surviving lines of Shinkage-ryū and reflect on my own practice.

• event : Gassankan Kagami Biraki 2024

  Gassankan Kagami Biraki in Seattle, Feb 2024. Kata performed are selected from the curriculum of Jiki Shinkage-ryu.

• event : Tsubaki Grand Shrine America

  Visiting Tsubaki Grand Shrine America in June of 2023, before it is closed.

• essay : General Qi Jiguans's Jixiao Xinshu and Reflections on Claims of Martial Virtue

  Link to an essay examining some older writings from Japanese koryū that reference classical Chinese military treatises and how practices described in those works may be represented in arts surviving today.

• event : Gassankan Kagami Biraki 2023

  Gassankan Kagami Biraki in Seattle, January 2023. Kata performed are selected from the curriculum of Jiki Shinkage-ryu.

• event : Keiko at Seattle Budokan

  Our group practiced at the Seattle Budokan in August 2021 during a lull in the pandemic. I took some pictures and wanted to provide them here. Kata performed are selected from the curriculum of Jiki Shinkage-ryu.

• essay : Gogyō Exegesis

  An essay describing my experience, thinking, and choices regarding attempting to practice multiple koryū and then deciding not to.

• event : 2019 Pittsburgh Taiji Seminar with Zhao Zeren and Zhang Yun

  Pittsburgh seminar in Northern Wu Style Taijiquan with Zhao Zeren and Zhang Yun.

• event : Swordsquatch 2018

  I have taken photos of longsword competitions in previous years and enjoyed watching the fitness and skill of the practitioners. This last weekend I took the step of entering into the Swordsquatch Open Steel competition so I could experience the action first hand.

• event : Swordsquatch 2017

  Photos from the Swordsquatch HEMA Event in Seattle in September 2017.

• event : Taiji Classics Seminar

  Attending a seminar detailing excerpts from the Taiji classics.

• essay : Aiki and Internal Training

  Collected thoughts on the historical influence of Chinese martial arts on Japanese jujutsu and how they relate to the topic of aiki in Aikido and Daito-ryu.

• event : Enbu for Karunakaran

  Memorial demonstration in honor of the late Karunakaran-sensei, senior student of Donn Draeger in Shinto Muso-ryu Jo.

• event : Longpoint 2016

  Photos from the Longpoint HEMA Event in June 2016 in Howard County, Maryland.

• event : Wu Taiji Quan Seminar with Zhao Zeren and Zhang Yun

  Zhao Zeren and Zhang Yun taught a series of three seminars on the Wu Style Taiji Quan of Wang Peisheng during May 2016 in Princeton, Pittsburgh, and Silver Spring.

• event : Princeton Bagua and Taiji Seminar

  At the end of summer, I traveled to Princeton for a seminar in Bagua and Taiji and was accepted as a formal lineal student by my teacher, Zhang Yun. I also traveled to the Pacific Northwest, where I was able to visit with budo colleagues in Oregon.

• event : Capital Katori

  I practiced in a branch of Katori Shinto-ryu hosted at Capital Aikikai in Silver Spring, until December 2014. Some photos from workshops and seminars from 2010 and 2014 can be found below.

• event : Tian Gang Dao Seminar

  This weekend I traveled to Pittsburgh for additional training in neijiaquan. I attended Zhang Yun's taijiquan class and met up with several of his senior students I had not seen in a while. It was great to train with everyone and get pointers on my body organization. I also had a chance to get further correction of my Yin Bagua Zhang and also learn the remaining sections of the Hebei Xingyi Quan Za Shi Chui (mixed skills) form.

• event : Demo of Araki-ryū and Tenshin Buko-ryū

  A brief reflection on a demonstration of Araki-ryū and Tenshin Buko-ryū at the NAMT 2013 Night of Budo.

• event : Kalachakra for World Peace

  I attended the 2011 Kalachakra for World Peace held in Washington, DC.

• event : YCGF Maryland Wu Taiji Seminar 2008

  I attended the 2008 summer Yin Cheng Gong Fa seminar in Frederick, MD.

• update : Hatha Yoga

  I completed a 200 hour Yoga Alliance teacher training in Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga at Midtown Yoga.

• event : Dewa Sanzan

  Photos from visiting the Dewa Sanzan area of Japan.