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 #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...
Kosho Chronicles Issue #9
To the Reader
The hardest part of learning from Mitose was not learning from Mitose. It was coming back to my school and trying to explain what I had learned to my students. Every visit to the prison gave me something new. Every class I taught afterward felt like trying to describe a color nobody had ever seen.
My students had no idea what they were in for. Neither did...
Kosho Chronicles Issue #8
To the Reader
You already know everything. That is the problem. You have studied, you have trained, you have built a framework of understanding, and now you filter everything through it. Whatever fits, you accept. Whatever does not, you reject. And you call that knowledge.
Mitose had a word for this. He called it prejudice. Not the kind people argue about on the news. ...
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