If you’ve spent much time in the internal martial arts world (or the Chinese martial arts world, or the “Traditional” martial arts world in general)… you might have noticed that many people refuse to relax their grip on heated – and ultimately fruitless – arguments against reality.
People want things to be a certain way, even when they’re not.
People want to be more powerful, more adept, more skillful, and more privy to secret knowledge than everyone else. Just because you want something, doesn’t mean you have it.
Just because you believe you’re a badass fighter, doesn’t mean you are.
There is no invincible style. Nobody wins them all.
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