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The Tuttle company today maintains an active backlist of some 1,500 titles, many of which have been continuously in print since the 1950s and 1960s—a great testament to Charles Tuttle’s skill as a publisher. More than 60 years after its founding, Tuttle Publishing is more active today than at any time in its history, still inspired by Charles Tuttle’s core mission—to publish fine books to span the East and West and provide a greater understanding of each.

Acknowledgments

This book is the culmination of many people’s efforts and support for which I am extremely grateful. These simple “acknowledgments” just don’t do enough to fully express my thanks, but it’s a start.

A huge thank you to Chris Olson, my right hand man who dutifully allowed me to work through all my concepts as I wrote, only to have to do it all again for the camera then spend hours upon hours picking out the shots that best conveyed the action (as well as his own pain).

Ed Hiscoe Hanshi, my Sensei, deserves thanks, but so much more. I always look to his example for his passion for teaching self-defense but also helping people grow. He stood behind me throughout all my early training years, even those difficult upstart years while I moved from the impetuousness of adolescence into the reckoning of adulthood.