The Edge: Life Lessons From a Martial Arts Master

by Ray Fisher, Robert Dean Lurie

“I sought clarity.” So begins The Edge, which documents the parallel journeys of a martial arts master and his student. It is a record of the insights Ray Fisher has gleaned during his more than thirty years of intensive practice--insights into matters both practical and spiritual--and a bold conceptualization of the martial arts as a way of life. Alongside this, The Edge tells the story of co-author Robert Lurie's slow and sometimes painful transition, under Fisher's tutelage, from being “a man forever seated, bathed in the flickering glow of a monitor” into a more fully integrated human someone in whom the physical (which had always been given short shrift) could now take its place alongside, and perhaps even rein in, the cerebral. The Edge is not just a book for martial artists. Rather, it is a book for anyone who has ever felt the stirring of a desire for self-transformation.

160 pages, Paperback

First published December 20, 2013