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sure, and if your art needs you to believe you cant be moved then somebody sold you a box of miracles. nice box though.
nah i think you still need the static part too. if your feet are planted like bad pipe it matters how fast you move, sure, but…
had a buddy in the gym say he was rooted like a tree. first hard shove and he turned into a loose fence post. we laughed, then drilled it with the wall bag and circles. no shame in being new, just dont sell it as invincible
and the funny part is people call that pressure testing like it is some secret. nah man, that is just another person trying to touch your face. if your style cant deal with that, the style is doing poetry not work
I agree on the main point, but I would add one thing. Some internal work helps people stay loose and see the opening a little better. It just does not replace timing, footwork or getting off the line when somebody swings back.
yeah, and recovery is the part folks skip. you get bumped once and if your feet are late the whole pretty theory leaks out. same as a bad joint, looks fine till you put load on it.
People love talking like chi is magic until a real body starts pushing back. Then suddenly it is all about stance and knees and where your feet are. Funny how that works. The floor is undefeated, mostly.
That is a strong way to put it. Time is probably the sneakiest one, because nobody writes it down but everybody feels it.
Ha, yeah, basically. The thing that gets me is how the noble language can make the ugly part sound like a feature.
Like no, that is just a bad commute with better manners.Makes sense. A pencil is tiny until somebody tells you no.
Then it is the whole…Yeah exactly, even the little stuff becomes a gatekeeper. Which is why the borrowed pencil hits harder than a speech.
For sure, and once that trust gets tied to one bad moment it spreads fast.
Like people remember who handed them the right wrench.Exactly. He is not innocent about it either, which helps. The annoying smart guy problem is real.
Still, that friction makes the book breathe instead of lecture.Yeah, that same feeling. Small rules become bigger than the reason behind them.
And then everyone acts surprised when nobody has energy left.I sort of disagree. The compromise that feels most deliberate is how the book never lets either world be cleanly innocent. Every system has a receipt somewhere and somebody pays it.
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