Warrior Mind: Strategy and Philosophy from the Martial Arts
Well, I can’t really do a book review of a book that I haven’t read yet, but this does deserve some notice.
Periodically, some of the black belts from our dojang travel out to Oregon to train with a 9th dan and his students out there. The 9th dan, Grand Master James Garrison, had three senior students; my late instructor (Grand Master Wilson) was one of those three. The second of the three fell in love with one of the black belts from the East coast, married her, moved out this way, and is now running some great Hapkido classes at our dojang.
The third of those senior instructors just had a book published. Warrior Mind: Strategy and Philosophy from the Martial Arts can be purchased via that link at Amazon. The author, Dick Morgan, is a 7th dan in Hapkido, and holds rank in other disciplines as well. He’s been with Grand Master Garrison for several decades. He’s also about six foot five and has had a hip replaced, though that didn’t seem to slow him down for that long.
He’s a really good guy to work with at the seminars. Obviously he’s very knowledgeable, and he keeps you on your mettle by not letting you get away with sloppy technique. He’s also got a different body style, which is great for training variations of techniques.
So I’ll be looking forward to reading his book. As I understand it, the book is more about mindset than anything. I’ll be getting an autographed copy sooner or later.
