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Instructions to a Samurai
Even if wonderful things like sudden enlightenment or immediate illumination could happen by sitting as if dead in silent awareness, still the lords, grandees, knights, and common people have all sorts of public duties and family affairs to attend to where can they find even a little free time to sit? Even if you take time off from your job and leave household duties undone on the pretext of illness, then shut yourself in a room for three, five, or seven days with a pile of cushions and a stick of incense to sit, you’ll be so tired from your everyday worldly duties that for every inch you sit you’ll sleep ten feet, and in every three cups of sitting meditation you’ll collect ten million bushels of wandering thought. Now if you glare and grit your teeth, clench your fists and straighten your spine and sit, all sorts of hallucinations will crowd your head.
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This guy has a whole series on Youtube (aka Shaolin Temple v.3030)

From Mike Patterson.

Tactical Training
The 24 stems are based on my 26 years of experience both as a fighter and a coach/trainer.

1. Distance should be such that when the combatant’s hands are stretched outward, the fingers may interlace. When the wrists touch, attack!
2. Observe the nine gates of attack and learn to utilize them in combination.
3. Movement and stillness are one in the same; both are suitable defenses.
4. Never more than two complete steps in any single direction. Do not chase. A smart fighter will time the third step and use it against you.
5. There are four ranges of combat: foot, hand, trap and grapple. Know them well and be able to shift easily from one to another.
6. The best fighters always attack, even when defending. Learn to exploit your opponent’s habits.
7. When given a choice between inside and outside closing, always choose outside.
8. Fold from hand to elbow to shoulder and back again.
9. Once the closing is met, stick like glue until conclusion.
10. The best time to kick is when the opponent is moving forward or back, immediately after a bridge has been attempted.
11. The limbs are usually vulnerable.
12. Pyan always at a 45-degree angle off the centerline of attack.
13. Speed should be varied with purpose to lead the opponent’s mind.
14. Never telegraph – strikes must be delivered from the present position.
15. Look at the opponent’s eyes (or throat) in a single match. In situations of multiple threat, look downward.
16. Strength used wisely is an asset, but be ever wary of the “trap.”
17. Pain is an effective way to lead the opponent’s mind.
18. When “leading the body,” be alert, sensitive, and maintain your sphere.
19. While easier to employ, defense will not win the battle.
20. All true attacks initiate from the feet.
21. Box a “kicker,” kick a “boxer.”
22. Sweep a high stance, attack a low stance.
23. Study the double strike and the four methods of employment. It is unexpected.
24. Explore technique to grasp principle, holding principle, forget technique.

“I’m not claiming those who have a never-say-die attitude are superior to those who don’t, because in some cases it can actually be detrimental, but when it comes to fighting, it can be one of your most important tools. If an opponent lands fifteen hard punches to your face, and you smile as though you enjoyed the ride, it fucks with his head. After all, the majority of people are equipped with an easily accessible lever in their head that, when pulled, switches them from “fight mode” to “flight mode.” We’ve all seen what flight mode looks like in the Octagon — it can come in the form of severe backpedaling, clinging to your opponent on the ground, or even giving your opponent your arm so he can finish you off with quick submission.”

– Forrest Griffin, Got Fight?

Leung Ting on Fight Quest

“oh poor boy… oh poor boy”

Like Bomb the Ears, Blind the Eyes and other similar hospitalizing moves.
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