Morris speaks…

“The bottom line is, it’s no good being ‘principle based’ if you don’t have a first-hand understanding of the principle, and that comes through fighting. People in the martial arts often use words and terms so as to appear to be an authority on a subject, when in fact they have no real-life experience of it.” Steve Morris

Morris says…

“Forget the form as a starting point, but rather seek to extract from fighting those skill patterns that keep appearing again and again. These can serve as your reference point, rather than the templates handed down by the tradition. All martial arts traditions would have obviously started as ‘backyard’ or family systems, but once they’d begun to be widely propagated, nearly all of them have been standardized.” Steve Morris