Fresh off an aircraft carrier after a year in the South China Sea, serviceman Jack Sabat and two of his buddies decide to head down to Tijuana for some spirited R&R. What they eventually encounter is more than the amateur martial artists bargained for: a vicious attempted robbery and assault by a group of the town's resident thugs. Sabat and his friends do battle, employing self-defense techniques learned in the on-board dojo, and succeed in incapacitating their attackers.
In twelve action-packed episodes, Jack Sabat recounts the great fights and lessons learned in nearly thirty years of pracicing and teaching karate. Zen and the Art of Streeet Fighting takes us from the author's initiation into the martial arts while serving on an aircraft carrier, to training and battling with warriors from Japan and Hong Kong to the Philippines and New South Wales, to his own dojo in Southern California, where he practices with students and teachers from around the world.