Best of OKI

Wanted to do a quick post highlighting the most popular articles on OKI that you may not have seen before:

• The Way of Walking Alone - Miyamoto Musashi’s Dokkodo, wrote shortly before his death in 1645.
• Organized Instruction - Thoughts on the many Karate organizations and why I am against them.
• Matsumura’s 1882 Letter - Discussion on Budo in a letter from Soken Matsumura to his student.
• Tadashi Yamashita - A short look at the martial arts legend who taught Bruce Lee nunchaku.
• Deep Stances - Why I don’t do deep stances and why you should consider not doing them too.
• Unrealistic Concepts in Karate - A look at some of the less applicable ideas in mainstream Karate.
• Defining Budo - What Budo means and where we have gone wrong in explaining it over the last 100 years.
• Chosin Chibana’s Essay - An essay attributed to Chosin Chibana consisting on a collection of his thoughts on Karate.

If you think there is an excellent article that didn’t make the list, leave a comment below.