Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .

. . in Old Karate, you learned you Art through pain. You learned quickly that your techniques had to be fast or powerful or both. If you did not embrace pain and it's lessons adequately, you simply did not survive

True Martial Arts is universal, simple and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.

A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego

. . . for any worthwhile martial arts skill to be pragmatic, it has to be done live, otherwise it is of limited or no use in actual combat