Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills
It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.
Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.
Greet what arrives, escort what leaves and rush upon loss of contact
We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.
Do not fight with the strength, absorb it, and it flows, use it.