Kosho Chronicles: History, Legacy and Principles of Kosho Ryu Kempo

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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 ...

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10 - The Certificates

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 i...

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9 - The Guinea Pigs

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 ...

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7 - The Visual Plane

Kosho Chronicles Issue #7 TO THE READERYou trust your eyes. You have been trained to watch the punch, track the kick, follow the weapon. Your eyes are the first sense you turn to in danger, and they are the reason you get hit. Mitose called them the great betrayer. I did not understand what he me...

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6 - The Preparatory Arts

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 k...

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THE KOSHO CHRONICLES #3: "You Stupid"

To the Reader Speed is a lie. Everything you think you know about being fast is wrong. If you cannot let go of your obsession with speed, stop reading now. You are not ready. The Teaching One visit, Mitose asked me to hit him. Real hard. At the prison, there was a guard there who knew who I was....

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Kosho Chronicles Issue #1 Meeting Mitose

The Teacher That Wasn't Dead To the reader: What I am about to share with you is more than history. It is the beginning of a journey that changed everything I thought I knew about the martial arts. I ask that you read this not just with your eyes, but with your heart. Feel what I am telling you....

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