Do Less: Thirty Years of Fighting, and the Hour That Undid It All

★ #1 Amazon Bestseller in Martial Arts (Kindle), July 2026 ★ The hardest thing a fighter can learn is that force was never the answer. I spent thirty years learning to generate more — more power, more speed, more will. It worked. Queensland kickboxing champion at eighteen. Two Australian Muay Thai titles. Twelve wins from fourteen fights. Then a soft-spoken software designer put me on the floor without any effort I could detect, and the whole thing cracked. Do Less is the story of those thirty years and that one hour. Half of it is a memoir — the scrawny kid from Redcliffe, the newspaper story that changed everything, the titles, the loss that put a fear in me I carried for a decade, and the night I walked away. The other half is what I found on the far side: four principles — form, breathing, relaxation, movement — that turn out to apply to a great deal more than fighting. The hour came in a park at West End, from a man who moved me around like furniture and said two words. I’ve written the four principles down the way I wish someone had taught them to me: plainly, in order, with practices you can do the same day you read them. For fighters who suspect there’s another gear. For internal arts students tired of mystery. For anyone who’s noticed that trying harder has stopped working.