How to Make a Bow-Kata Monk/Fighter?

[Arkhios]

I would certainly argue it should work so easily- you can just say you hold the bow in one hand and judo chop them repeatedly with your free hand to deal the same damage and AFAIK nothing mechanically would change for using your two-handed bow instead. You don't gain additional Martial Arts damage for two-handing the thing.

Crossbow Expert lets you make Ranged attacks (regardless of what you use to make such an attack; be it weapon or spell) in melee range without disadvantage. Note: you can make ranged attacks in melee range without the feat as well, it just has disadvantage, so BobTheWizard was slightly erroneous in this regard.

Anyway, wasn't this the idea all along, using your bow and only the bow as your weapon? Judo Chopping or otherwise punching with the hand holding the bow is a different "weapon". Also, the damage type is different (piercing vs. bludgeoning).