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Colin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Colin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Colin Wee
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Colin Wee is a martial art master instructor, author, and Australasian Martial Arts Hall of Famer. He was a Finalist in the International Book Awards 2023 for Sport, and a Winner of the Best Indie Book Award 2023 for Non-Fiction: Sport. ...more
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Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
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Okinawa Reflections
In October 2025, I travelled to Okinawa as part of my ongoing research for a historical fiction manuscript set in 19th‑century Ryukyu. My book project follows a group of bureaucrats navigating the political and cultural pressures of the Japanese annexation, and I knew I couldn’t write about that world responsibly without spending time there myself. Even though the book is historical fiction, I
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is on page 162 of 237 of The Artist's Way: "Ask yourself what you stand to gain by not doing this piece of work" (Cameron p260).
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My debut book Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata was launched in 2023. I brought my small martial arts group down a rabbit hole for many
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I was gifted and am deep into The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - which is busying itself trying to heal my traumatized creative
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“The pioneers of kata wanted to tell us something. And we've been trying to find out what exactly that is by studying their worldview, using kata as a lens.”
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
“Simply believing a technique is above failure guarantees its failure.”
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
“Copying Iain Abernathy's cool takedown, or anyone else's technique or combo, does not qualify as applications training.”
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
“The pioneers of kata wanted to tell us something. And we've been trying to find out what exactly that is by studying their worldview, using kata as a lens.”
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
“Simply believing a technique is above failure guarantees its failure.”
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
“Copying Iain Abernathy's cool takedown, or anyone else's technique or combo, does not qualify as applications training.”
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
― Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
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