July 2025
On 26 July 2025, the world lost one of its most knowledgeable teachers and scholars of classical Japanese martial culture.
May 2019
Pittsburgh seminar in Northern Wu Style Tàijíquán with Zhao Zeren and Zhang Yun.
May 2016
Zhao Zeren and Zhang Yun taught a series of three seminars on the Wu Style Tàijí Quan of Wang Peisheng during May 2016 in Princeton, Pittsburgh, and Silver Spring.
August 2015
At the end of summer, I traveled to Princeton for a seminar in Bāguà and Tàijí 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 budō colleagues in Oregon.
January 2015
In the new year, I have decided to focus my martial arts efforts to continued regular participation in two schools — Yin Cheng Gong Fa and the Hōbyōkan
June 2013
A brief reflection on a demonstration of Araki-ryū and Tenshin Bukō-ryū at the NAMT 2013 Night of Budo by Ellis Amdur a reknowned kobujutsu, Aikidō and internal martial arts researcher and practitioner, demonstrating two arts he has mastered.
May 2008
I attended the 2008 summer Yin Cheng Gong Fa seminar in Frederick, MD.