I am Khpra Senwosret. I am a writer and a martial artist — but in the fighting arts, first and foremost, I am a strategist.

I have spent more than forty years studying martial arts. I trained in Goju Ryu under Sifu Irving Sheffey, then under Sifu Keampa, in the art that became the foundation of Twi Chi West Boxing Art.

Somewhere along that road, I became something different from a martial artist or a teacher.

There are thousands of instructors and coaches. There are far fewer people whose primary work is studying the fight itself — distance, timing, position, rhythm, weapons, movement, psychology, and how one action creates the opportunity for the next.

That is where my work lives.

A punch by itself means very little. A kick by itself means very little. What matters is why you use it, when you use it, what position it leaves you in, and what comes next. That is strategy.

My approach was shaped by what Sifu Keampa taught me, and by Bruce Lee's insistence that a martial artist investigate fighting rather than be imprisoned by style. I have spent the years since continuing that investigation for myself.

The result is Twi Chi West Boxing Art — A Path Forward: my attempt to preserve what I was taught, and to document what decades of fighting, training, observation, and thought have taught me.

The same mind follows me into my writing. I am the author of MENKARAA, a supernatural story rooted in ancient Kemet, and my historical work concentrates on the African and African-American experience.

I am influenced by Pan-African thought and Taoist philosophy, but I don't believe any philosophy should become a prison.

At this point in my life, my work is increasingly about legacy. I am a husband and grandfather. I have lived long enough to understand that what we accumulate eventually disappears. What we teach can continue.

So I write. I document. I question.