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Forms and katas are not the answer

I think simply to practice gung fu forms and karate katas is not a good way. Moreover, it wastes time and does not match the actual (fighting) situation. Some people are tall, some are short, some are stout, some are slim. There are various kinds of people. If all of them learn the same boxing (i.e. martial art) form, then who does it fit?

The highest state is no form

I think the highest state of martial art, in application, must have no absolute form. And, to tackle pattern A with pattern B may not be absolutely correct. I feel that martial art should not be limited in a circle. That will produce in the students a wrong idea, thinking that a certain pattern will achieve the same result in fighting as in practice.

On what is the “best” martial art

There is no such thing as an effective segment of a totality. By that I mean that I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of beings on earth that are structurally different from us, there can be no different style of fighting. Why is that? Because we have two hands and two legs. Now the unfortunate thing is that there’s boxing, which uses hands, and judo, which uses throwing. I’m not putting them down, mind you—but because of styles, people are separated. They are not united together because styles become law. The original founder of the style started out with hypothesis. But now it has become the gospel truth, and people who go into that become the product of it. It doesn’t matter how you are, who you are, how you are structured, how you are built, or how you are made . . . it doesn’t seem to matter. You just go in there and become that product. And that, to me, is not right.