In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

Real living is living for others.

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.