You can't learn Martial Arts from a book?

Well, I don't suggest this one... But I'm a book lover. I firmly hold the belief that books hold all the accumulated knowledge of humanity. Why not the "deadly secrets" of the Martial Arts?

On the other hand, after practicing for over a decade now, I realize there's a lot in martial arts that books just can't capture. Seriously. Timing and distancing, for example, are really hard to capture.

But here's an interesting take on the subject that might raise a few eyebrows.