Excellence is an art won by training and
habituation. We do not act rightly because
we have virtue or excellence, but rather we
have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act but a habit.
-- Aristotle
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The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here - it is slow and cold, and it is theirs. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous, marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes- between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal.
Well, fuck them. Make it personal.'
Quellcrist Falconer,
Things I Should Have Learned By Now Vol II
Especially when preparing for actual combat, these few seconds of preamble allow you to settle your equilibrium, to draw upon your self-confidence, to face without emotion that sword point which threatens you, and to allay the first involuntary movement of anxiety which, in such cases, the strongest nature must endure for a moment. Moreover, you have been able to entrap your adversary in a comprehensive glance of observation, and to draw your own conclusions from his position, from his handling of the sword, and from the general way in which he offers battle.
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This renders it worth your while to stand for a few minutes even out of pistol shot.
From Sentiments of the Sword by Sir Richard Burton
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Thanx for your understanding .
The complete process consists of five steps:
1. Ting – listen: feel or detect what the opponent want to do,
2. Hua – melt or dissolve: neutralize the attacking force,
3. Yin – lure: give the opponent false impressions, making him feel like
he can get you, and leading him to go where you want him to go,
4. Nia - hold or control: get the opponent under your control
(usually means keep him off-balanced), and
5. Fa - release a throwing force: attack.
The great Master Wu Yu hsiang is to have said: " In advancing and returning, there must be folding". It is a true, folding when you close in, extending when you retreat out - to know the way of near and far designates one as a master of weapons, ranges and footwork. To hold and root, to absorb and release, know when to rhythmically enter and exit. Be spontaneous and move only when the opponent moves. Fist and foot together - like the tidal actions, in and out, ocean-like waves of power from the legs up through the arms and hands. To fold or extend with authority one must generally keep the head upright and use the spine as central axis. Raise, lower and rotate the body as you perform the serpents dance, you will see the value of knowing how to extend and when to fold. Conduct energy through the sinew, relaxed, yet strong as steel.
