A Pamphlet, Maybe

This one is on Isshinryu specifically because it is the one I encounter toward an effort to get a book written by certain parties. One party I believe one day will actually write it all down and make it available while the other party will never write a book simply because there is not enough to actually write a “Book.” 

A pamphlet or flyer or short story but a book with relevant historical first-person data on the system or style, not a chance. Personally, as to one party, I have done the research on the material that would need to be involved in the book and that information is already available to those who take the time to seek it via electronic means. It is out there, you just have to let it in.

Often, the full extent of that information has been repeatedly provided on a few venues and when it is compiled and edited it might make a pamphlet or small short story eBook. This is a shame for information on martial arts in general let alone any one system or style is often filled with pictures showing techniques, combinations or what most call bunkai. 

Even if one fills more pages with the more esoteric teachings that involve the culture as well as more philosophical driven writings based on theory and philosophies from the ancient classics as they would apply toward martial arts it still doesn’t do justice to the style or any one style or system. Overall as to martial philosophy and principles of same, yea, you can achieve a book. Would that book be sought after in the martial arts community, not much and not really because the focus is not on that type of presentation and articulation and practice toward the study of martial arts. 

Shame, ain’t it?