For over four decades, Coach King has lived the martial path. He has fought on streets, in rings, and on the doors of Johannesburg's most dangerous nightclubs. He has trained with world-class fighters, built systems adopted by special forces and law enforcement worldwide, and coached everyone from complete beginners to elite operators. He has also, by his own admission, been part of the very culture this book calls into question.
Martial ARTs: A Way of Life is his most personal and most important work. It is not a training manual. It is not a motivational book. It is a philosophical argument, forged over a decade of notes, reflections, and hard questioning, that modern martial arts has kept the fighting and lost the art. That a practice once designed to form complete human beings has been reduced to spectacle, commerce, and the endless performance of worth. And that if the path is to mean anything beyond technique, it must be reclaimed by practitioners willing to ask what their training is actually making of them.