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17/09/2026

Being fast for the sake of being fast is not fight IQ.

Speed without timing, rhythm, and awareness of what is happening around is just mechanical speed.

The main idea here is Hyōshi (拍子), related to rhythm, timing, cadence, or the proper flow of an action.

Every fighter has a rhythm, your opponent has a rhythm as well; even the situation itself develops a rhythm.

The idea is to recognize all three and act at the right moment, when they align in your favor, or to disrupt your opponent’s rhythm and force them out of sync.

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29/08/2026

What Bruce Lee meant here, is that the same idea applies to martial arts, as you can understand distance, timing, pressure, composure, and counterattacking intellectually, you can even know exactly what you are “supposed” to do, but then a sparring sessions becomes a reality check.

Suddenly distance feels different, openings seem to disappear, and your body becomes tense. In simple words, plans collapse, while reality exposes the difference between what you think you know and what you can actually express under pressure.

This does not mean mindset, visualization or theory are useless. Of course, they can prepare you, but they cannot replace contact with reality.

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Zanshin, without letting it turn into paranoia.
28/08/2026

Zanshin, without letting it turn into paranoia.

22/08/2026

This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t seek knowledge.

Pursing knowledge is our mind’s way to make sense of this world.

But even knowledge can become a burden
when we start clinging to it.

We learn something.
It helps us.
It gives structure to the world.
And then, slowly, we begin to identify with it.

When this happens, there is the risk we stop asking questions because we assume that we already “know.”

We stop listening because we are busy comparing everything to what we learned before.

That is where knowledge
can become another kind of limitation.

And that is when we must empty the cup because our mind (the cup) is filled with too much certainty.

It is a kind of certainty that comes from prejudice, rather than real understanding.

To be free from your knowledge
doesn’t mean forgetting what you’ve learned.
It means not becoming imprisoned by it.

You can use what you know without needing reality to always fit inside it.

You can hold an idea without turning it into rigid identity.

Don’t let that beginner’s mind (Shoshin, as they call it in Zen), atrophy.

A free mind keeps asking:

“What am I still not seeing?”

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