Robert Smith

Robert W. Smith is one of the world's leading authorities on Asian martial arts. Co-author with Donn F. Draeger of the groundbreaking Comprehensive Asian Fighting Arts, he has written fourteen other books on various aspects of the Chinese martial arts. Smith has practiced, taught, and written on the Asian martial arts for more than fifty years. From his late teens he trained under eminent Western boxing and wrestling coaches and later immersed himself in judo and finally the Chinese martial arts under celebrated masters. He taught many students in the latter arts in the Washington D.C. area where he worked as an intelligence officer for the CIA.