You never for­get how to ride a bike  —  maybe I’m just extra­or­di­nar­ily stu­pid, but I’ve proven that one wrong. I was spend­ing the week­end with a girl­friend in a small Japanese vil­lage and had vol­un­teered to make a con­bini (a won­der­ful lit­tle Jap-English cor­rup­tion of “con­ve­nience store”) run for some drinks. Since it was a nice day, I fig­ured that, rather than drive…

In light of the recent hokei assign­ment I gave the Tech Taido black belt can­di­dates, I decided to post some notes on a cou­ple of hokei that I have cre­ated. Though nei­ther one would ful­fill the require­ments I set forth in the assign­ment (because they were designed for rea­sons to be out­lined below), their pre­sen­ta­tion may prove ben­e­fi­cial to the…