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• When you have no form, you can be all form. When you have no style, you can fit in with any style

• In sparring there is no answer; truth has no future, it must be understood from moment to moment. You see, to that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path but not to that which is moving and living. There is no conviction or method, but perception, a pliable and choiceless awareness.

• To have a choiceless awareness, one should have the totality, or emptiness—all lines, all angles.

• If one is isolated, he is frozen and paralyzed. To be alive is to be related. Action is our relationship with our opponent.

• Action is not a matter of right and wrong. It is only when action is partial, not total, that there is right and wrong.

Economy of motion

In kicking and striking, especially when launched from the ready position, eliminate all unnecessary motions and muscle contractions which slow and fatigue you without accomplishing any useful purpose. Much energy is wasted by the unrelaxed opposing muscles in resisting the movement—learn and feel proper contraction and recovery (otherwise your physiological engine is racing, but the brakes are on).