... beat him and win!" My instructor at the time, Professor Yip Man, head of the wing chun school of gung fu, would come up to me and say "Leung(Lee's Chinese nickname was Lee Siu Leung), relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow the opponent's movement. Let your mind, the basic reality, do the counter-movement without any ... to "try" to do but be purposeless and formless like water. Nothingness prevails; he no longer is confined. These three stages also apply to the various methods being practiced in Chinese gung fu. Some methods are rather primitive with basic jerky bloc...

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