Kosho Reflections Issue #4: In Weakness There Is Strength
Apr 06, 2026
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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
In weakness there is strength. In strength there is weakness.
This is not wordplay. This is natural law. You cannot have hard without soft. You cannot have soft without hard. The hard, the soft, the Kyo, the Jitsu, the Yin, the Yang. They are both necessary. You cannot have one without the other because if you do, you have no balance.
The purpose of Kosho Ryu Kempo is to understand balance. Learn to create it. Learn to disrupt it. From there, you can throw an opponent off, control an opponent, or destroy an opponent.
Kosho Chronicles Issue #12
To The ReaderThe Octagon is not a diagram on the floor. It is not a shape you step around during a drill and then forget about when the drill is over. It is alive. It lives in your body, in your opponent's body, in every joint, every crease, every rotation of every limb.
Most people see the Octagon as a pattern to memorize. That is why most people never understand it....
Kosho Chronicles Issue #11
To the Reader
Every man has a price. That is what people believe. They believe it because, most of the time, they are right. But every once in a while, you meet someone who does not have one. And when you do, it will tell you more about yourself than it tells you about them.
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Kosho Chronicles Issue #10
To the Reader
In the martial arts, people will do extraordinary things for a piece of paper. They will travel across the country for one. They will lie about one. They will spend years chasing one and then, once they have it, spend the rest of their lives defending it instead of learning from it.
A certificate from James Mitose meant something. But what it meant depen...
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