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When you are in a combat situation, you mustn’t let your mind be polluted by emotions like fear and anger. Simply accept the situation and react, even if you are facing impossible odds. Keep your head clear and you will be one step ahead of your attackers.


Aaron B. Powell


#fighting #fighting-wisdom #martial-arts #anger

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament.


Josh Waitzkin


#learning #martial-arts #tai-chi-chuan #tournament #art

It’s who I am. I can’t just pretend to be some normal kid. That won’t work either. They’ll never leave me alone. But here’s what I know: a block is a strike, and the more an adversary thinks he has succeeded, the more devastating the strike will be.


Jacques Antoine


#high-school #martial-arts #wuxia #art

In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.


H.E. Davey


#budo #do #efficiency #flowers #ikebana

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.


Gunter Grass


#allowed #children #defenders #family #germans

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.


Noah Hathaway


#arts #buff #i #martial #martial arts

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.


Chris Daughtry


#heavily #i #into #kid #martial

There are three kinds of fighters: the aggressive fighter who charges in blindly trying to get the upper hand, the defensive fighter who blocks and evades until his opponent is tired, and then the most dangerous type of fighter, the one who waits for his opponent to make a mistake.


Aaron B. Powell


#martial-arts #art

She looked into the eyes of many of them as they passed away, like some sort of angel of death. Some were frightened, some relieved, most just confused. She served as the arbiter of their passage, an earthly Charon. Or perhaps a Valkyrie, carrying fallen heroes to Valhalla. But she’d seen no heroes, no one worthy of Valhalla.


Jacques Antoine


#high-school #martial-arts #wuxia #art

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.


Brandon Lee


#discipline #inside #just #martial #martial arts