Kosho Reflections Issue #2: There Is No Body Contact
Feb 02, 2026
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To the Reader
Most of you reading this have spent years learning how to hit. You have practiced strikes, blocks, throws. You have conditioned your body. You have trained your reflexes.
I am going to tell you that the highest level of what you do requires none of it.
Sit with that before you continue.
The Teaching
In true self-defense, the high art of Kosho Ryu, there is no body contact.
This is not poetry. This is not philosophy dressed as combat. As Mitose taught, there is no higher form of true self-defense than that of no body contact. The objective in conflict is having no conflict. You escape. You control. You do not destroy.
Destruction is easy. Preservation is difficult.
If you get to the point of destruction, you have already failed. Everything after that is damage control. The fight you win without touching is the only fight you truly win.
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To the Reader
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To the Reader
You have been taught to be strong. To overcome. To dominate.
What if that teaching is incomplete?
The Teaching
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To the Reader
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