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I love it when generic meaningless quotes contradict each other: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

followed by:

"Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it."

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The martial arts deal with training, not knowledge. Doing a kick 10,000 times is training, you're working the body and not the mind.

When a student is obsessed with technique, he is attempting to avoid having to train, believing that having knowledge about the technique can make up for having to actually train it. These sorts of students learn martial arts, but never really practice it.

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