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 #16
To the Reader
Most martial artists train to be soldiers. They drill techniques. They condition their bodies. They prepare for the moment of contact. There is nothing wrong with that. But in Kosho Ryu, the soldier is the last resort. Not the first. And if you find yourself acting as the soldier, something has already gone wrong.
The Teaching
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Kosho Chronicles Issue #15
To the Reader
Every time I sat down with Mitose's manuscript, I hit the same wall. He was writing about God, about Christ, about Buddha, about religion. I am a martial artist. I wanted combat strategy. I wanted the keys to the art. Instead, I got philosophy wrapped in theology wrapped in a riddle.
Then he explained what he meant by God, and the entire book opened up.
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Kosho Chronicles Issue #14
To the Reader
Nobody wants to be called a coward. You hear that word and everything in you rejects it. You want to stand and fight. You want to prove something. That reaction, that need to prove, is the most dangerous thing about you.
Mitose did not see it the way you do.
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