TO THE READER There is a comfortable place you return to without noticing. A favorite technique. A preferred side. A distance where you feel safe. You have rehearsed it for years, and it feels like mastery. It is not mastery. It is a bubble, and you are living inside it. The trouble with a bubble...

Kosho Chronicles Issue #19 To the Reader You could never touch Mitose. He always touched you. I watched this happen over and over. Someone would reach for him, try to grab him, try to strike. And he was never there. Not because he was fast. Because he was already somewhere else before they started.

Kosho Chronicles Issue #13 To the Reader You have been showing your opponent everything you are about to do. Every block. Every entry. Every shift of weight. You think you are fast enough that it does not matter. You are wrong. The highest level of movement is movement that cannot be seen.