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...

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...

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...

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....