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Kosho Reflections Issue #3: The Student is a Better Teacher Than The Teacher
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...
Mar 01, 2026
bruce juchnik
conflict resolution
james mitose
kempo
kosho ryu
martial arts philosophy
preparatory arts
self-defense
Kosho Reflections Issue #2: There Is No Body Contact
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...
Feb 02, 2026
bruce juchnik
conflict resolution
james mitose
kempo
kosho ryu
martial arts philosophy
preparatory arts
self-defense