• The feet are the roots - motivated by the thighs, controlled by the waist, and manifested in the fingers.



• Shoulders should be drooped and relaxed.



• Diaphragmatic breathing.



• Elbows drooped.



• Neck/chin drooped.



• Chest sunken.



• Legs protect the groin.



• Use evenness in all movements - not quick at one movement and slow at another. Interruption of movement is the gap in space and time which allows us to be attacked.



• The mind controls everything. When one part moves, every part moves.



• You either move away in the same direction of the attacker or move to the side and stick to him.



• Force (your attack) should be exerted when the attacker is about to attack or move but has not. Not a moment before or a moment after.



• If you first move up, you should always move down next.



• Every joint in the entire body must be linked together so there is no interruption.



• If the opponent does not move, I do not move. If he makes the slightest move, I should move before him.



• The idea of force still continues - you mentally follow through the action, ready for a counter attack.



• When you are not required to move, you are as calm and sedate as a mountain. But when you move, you move with the speed of the torrential river.



• A curved force is a circular force. A straight force is a square one. But, circularity must employ squareness before an issuing force can be produced.



• Force should be stored all of the time - not just before an attack. You give yourself away.



• In a straight-line force (karate), the force is spent when completed. But a circular force always has excess to spare.

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