The fourth in a series of UechiRyu KarateDo books for young people. As a youth, Kanbun Uechi had no education other than the natural rhythm of farm and village life, and the changing seasons. He was a peaceful, unassuming farm boy in a small village in northern Okinawa. Yet an act of desperation, a perilous ocean voyage, and a chance life-saving encounter with one of China's greatest martial artists became the unique ingredients that transformed his life and laid the foundation for a personal defense system that spread worldwide in less than a century. Kanbun Uechi's story reminds us that there is endless potential in the palm of an empty hand. Even an ordinary, uneducated farm boy can leave a legacy beyond the imagination of the world's great.