#martial

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#been #first #i #involved #martial

I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#big #chunk #done #educating #game

When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning. ↗

— Joan Severance

#dead #experts #kicking #martial #martial arts

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#earth #every #face #martial #music

I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial. ↗

— Eddie Slovik

#i #made #martial #mind #take

I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff. ↗

— Yvonne Strahovski

#arts #before #could #distinguishing #even

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#zen #art

The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. ↗

— Miyamoto Musashi

#martial-arts #philosophy #strategy #art

Hatred could not be the basis of her resolution to fight. It provided no access to her own qi, her vital spirit. That was the deepest truth she knew about fighting. It’s what she learned from her father and Sensei: fight from the peaceful place inside, from her father’s place. ↗

— Jacques Antoine

#martial-arts #wuxia #art