Contents

 

 

 

Acknowledgments	9
Introduction	11
The General Fights a Bull	13
The Great Wave	19
The Hard Way to Find a Teacher	25
The Three Sons	29
The Style of No Sword	33
A Bully Changes His Ways	37
The Ballad of Mu-lan	43
Twelve Warriors of Burma	49
Wing Chun	57
The Eighteen Hands	63
The Mind Is a Sword	69
The Gentle Way	73
Great Power, Great Control	77
The Strange Disappearance of Morihei Ueshiba	83
Why Mas Oyama Shaved His Head Twice	87
The Bright Young Man	93
A Tea Master Faces Death	97
The Cat	103
How Loyalty Saved Korean Martial Arts	107
A Kyudo Master Makes a Bet	111
Fifty Thousand High Blocks	117
About the Author	120