To the Reader If you teach, this will challenge you. If you study under someone, this may confuse you. Either way, pay attention. What follows strikes at something most martial artists protect without realizing it. The Teaching The student is a better teacher than the teacher. This is not a contr...

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 Most of you reading this have spent years learning how to hit. You have practiced strikes, blocks, throws. You have conditioned your body. You have trained your reflexes. I am going to tell you that the highest level of what you do requires none of it. Sit with that before you conti...