Flawless Deception: the truth behind the samurai schools

Flawless Deception presents a significantly different vision of the samurai’s pre-1600 martial arts schools and in doing so offers additional reasons for their preservation.
Discarding the romantic or idealist notions that typically permeate and influence anything related to the samurai, Flawless Deception takes the approach that the schools must have inevitably reflected the elite-warrior mentalities that created and populated them.
The resulting conclusions regarding the form and practices of these schools are supported in part by the understanding the author has acquired from 40 years of studying the samurai martial arts with the same approach and dedication that these school’s members must have followed some four-hundred years ago.
This wealth of personal experience has also allowed Flawless Deception to include a unique assessment of these school’s methodology and how it is that while the method appears on the surface to be inadequate for producing medieval warriors of even an average combat ability—let alone the extraordinary level of prowess that is commonly attributed to the samurai—this method could, in fact, have potentially been capable of providing the superior training necessary for enhanced physical and psychological abilities during combat.