If your martial arts school forbids you to show off your skills, show off your humility instead.

Know the right time to enter.
It’s after the push ups.

If you suddenly see a wooden wall filling the horizon then your partner’s Jo is in your eye.

When your Sensei hits you in the stomach, first bow down with gratitude and then throw up.

A martial atheist is a person who rejects the belief that you can strangle an opponent with your Ki.

A martial artist is a person who creates installations from his opponents’ bodies.

1. Expect the attack when you least expect it.

2. Therefore, don’t expect it when you expect it.

3. Therefore, don’t attack when you are expected to attack.

4. Therefore, don’t expect people to attack when people expect you to expect their attacks.
   Unless, of course, you are expected to do exactly that.

Every training try to discover something new. Be it a technique, a small flaw in your movements, or just a new joint in your arm.

Do not resist the forces of the universe.

Let your body follow gravitation.

You will only understand the futility of all ambitions when you manage to immobilise yourself with a perfect joint lock.