Peace
Principle: Intention: Listen: Shortest Path
The fighting outcome is largely determined by courage. However, courage alone doesn't work. Top-quality sparring skills are indispensable. A brave fighter with first-rate skills is a tiger with wings.
In training, we are supposed to be coordinated and flexible in every single move of the forms. We must be very familiar with the moves. We should be able to discharge energy like an automatic weapon. A strike should take the shortest path. It must be fast, powerful, fierce, and accurate. It takes such qualities to handle a strong opponent. Training hard is the only way to acquire those qualities. Emphasis is placed on moving fast and slowly, striking like steel and maneuvering like water, closing and opening,
being relaxed and fluid, and bouncing and shuddering.
Emphasis on slow moves only leads to slow strikes, which an opponent can counter easily. But the emphasis on fast moves alone makes it difficult to feel the path of your energy and makes it easy to strike along a longer path than necessary. Being fast refers to the speed that is built up through familiarity with the energy path. It is a speed without loss of quality.