Kosho Reflections Issue #3: The Student is a Better Teacher Than The Teacher
Mar 01, 2026
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To the Reader
If you teach, this will challenge you. If you study under someone, this may confuse you.
Either way, pay attention. What follows strikes at something most martial artists protect without realizing it.
The Teaching
The student is a better teacher than the teacher.
This is not a contradiction. It is a truth that most people in positions of authority refuse to examine.
The teacher represents the individual who is instructing. However, if that individual has forgotten to keep his mind fresh by being a good student first, he lacks the ability to understand and communicate the concepts. The student has the ability to analyze, to search, to look over and over again. This student is superior to one who is merely teaching others and not going through a learning process himself.
Kosho Chronicles Issue #7
TO THE READERYou trust your eyes. You have been trained to watch the punch, track the kick, follow the weapon. Your eyes are the first sense you turn to in danger, and they are the reason you get hit.
Mitose called them the great betrayer. I did not understand what he meant until he showed me.
THE TEACHINGThe eyes are the directors of focus. When the eyes move, the hea...
Kosho Chronicles Issue #6
To the Reader
Every martial artist I have ever met wants to know what to do when the punch is coming. That is the wrong question. The right question is why you let it get that far.
Mitose began explaining the manuscript to me in a way that turned everything I thought I knew upside down. I had spent years training to react. He was about to show me that reaction was the ...
Kosho Chronicles Issue #5
To the Reader
I told you the manuscript was a riddle. That Mitose wrote it using religion and politics to hide the martial arts. That he said it was his duty to teach me everything in that book.
This issue begins the teaching. The first thing Mitose explained to me from that manuscript. The foundation of everything that followed.
It starts with a stranger beneath a pin...
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