This is a book about the author meeting a number of masters in the martial, spiritual and Taoist arts and contained within are interviews with them. I bought this book as the author may live near me so I thought about the possibility of training with him so I thought i'd try to get a flavour of what he teaches.
There is no doubt that Alex Kozma has met a lot of genuine masters in his travels and in this book are some very interesting interviews with many who talk about systems of development and martial practices I had never heard of, so it is always nice to get something unexpected and new. I like that it is not completely martial arts focused and has interviews with people who had gone beyond the martial into the more spiritual or religious areas, one had even become a fully blown Christian through his martial arts training, and fans of the Wu Tang Clan will like the interview about the Wu Tang Chuan martial system. But on the negative the book didn't flow that well and it is really just a load of interviews cobbled together without much linkage between them, so it isn't a properly structured book really with quite brief introductions and conclusions setting the scene of the book and the interviews, but still without people like the author writing about masters like these most of us would never even know their systems exist so my respect goes out to the author for putting the book together and also for actually going out and seeking these guys out in person rather than just searching google for them like most of the rest of us.
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