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 #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...
Kosho Chronicles Issue #4
To the Reader
Last issue I told you about timing. About how Mitose moved slow but moved on time. About how he dropped me to my knees and called me stupid.
This issue is about something that confused me even more. Something that took me years to understand. Something I am still working on after more than four decades.
This is about the book that did not make sense.
Th...
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