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  • It might sound too philosophical, but it's an unacting acting or acting unacting... if you...

  • You've lost me!

  • I have huh? So what l'm saying, actually, you see, it's a combination of both.

  • I mean here is the natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony.

  • Not...if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific.

  • If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man...

  • no longer a human being.

  • So it is a successful combination of both, so therefore, it's not pure naturalness, or unnaturalness.

  • The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness.

  • Ying & Yang eh?

  • You're right man, that's it.

  • But, if you do not have styles, if you just say, "here l am as a human being, how can l express myself totally and completely?"

  • ...now that way, you won't create a style because style is a crystallization. That way is a process of continuing growth.

  • I mean, hand-wise, it's very slow and you push it out but all the time you are keeping the continuity going

  • bending, stretching, everything. You just keep it moving.

  • It looks like a ballet dancer there...

  • It is. I mean to them the idea is "running water never grow stale". So you've got to just "keep on flowing".

  • It's interesting, we don't in our world, and haven't since the days of the Greeks who did,

  • combined philosophy and art with sport.

  • But quite clearly the oriental attitude is that the three are facets of the same things.

  • Man, listen. You see, really, ...

  • To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do.

  • I mean it is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky

  • and be flooded with a cocky feeling and then feel, like pretty cool and all that.

  • Or l can make all kinds of phony things, you see what l mean?

  • And be blinded by it. Or l can show you some really fancy movement,

  • but, to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself...

  • and to express myself honestly, that, my friend, is very hard to do.

  • And you have to train. You have to keep your reflexes so that when you want it... it's there!

  • When you want to move, you are moving and when you move you are determined to move.

  • Not taking one inch, not anything less than that!

  • If l want to punch, l'm going to do it man, and l'm going to do it!

  • So that is the type of thing you gave to train yourself into it

  • to become one with...

  • You think.... ....it is.

  • "empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water.

  • Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.

  • You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.

  • Now water can flow, or it can crash...

  • Be water, my friend"...

It might sound too philosophical, but it's an unacting acting or acting unacting... if you...

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