Martial Thoughts: 4.5 Nina Star Review of Musing of a Budo Bum by Peter Boylan: ‘I’ve been vilified by a lot of people’ – The Irish Times The Budo Bum: What Makes A Great Dojo The Budo Bum: Are You Practicing Budo in a Vacuum Peter Boylan, the well-known 'Budo Bum', has been studying Japanese martial arts for over thirty years.