[font="]YELLOW BELT Sayings[/font]
* Distance is your best friend.
*Whatever the attitude, so is the response.
*When blocking on the inside of an opponent's arm, do so below the
elbow, never above it.
*When blocking on the outside of an opponent's arm, do so at or above the
elbow, never below it.
*The ankle is the wrist of the foot.
*A knife‑edge kick is a chop with the foot.
*Deflection; then infliction of pain.
[font="]ORANGE BELT Sayings[/font]
* Let time be your measurement to skill and experience.
* To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.
* In every offense there is a defense and in every defense is an offense.
* Forms and sets are expressions of basic skills.
* One becomes humble when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.
*Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.
*When circular moves end, linear begin; when linear moves end, circular moves reoccur again.
*Many answers lie in a single move, but many moves do not necessarily give a single answer.
*There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh no matter who delivers or receives.
* He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position.
[font="]PURPLE BELT Sayings[/font]
* To beat action, meet it.
* Fair play is when your opponent's definition of fair play is equally matched with yours.
* It is not the size of a man, but the size of fear that has been the cause of many a defeat.
* Slow to learn, slow to forget.
* Anger can often constipate your retaliatory efforts.
* While there is a difference between the terms "opposite" and "reverse", both provide answers to thoroughly understanding the effects of motion.
* Always strike from where the natural weapons are found during the time of an attack.
* Wasted inches are wasted time.
* Knowledge is bound when one is compelled to tradition. Knowledge is endless when tradition is bound.
[font="]BLUE BELT Sayings[/font]
* Reaction can beat action if the target to be reached last is the first object to move out of the way.
* To aid your action, feed it with your opponent's reaction.
* A check, in most cases, is an application of, whereas a cover is used in anticipation of.
* Shuffles and crossovers are movements of adjustments.
* Flow first, power later.
* Guts are the anesthesia that deaden the pain of fear.
* The ultimate aim of Kenpo is to elongate circles and round off corners.
* Low kicks are excellent weapons to neutralize your opponent's aggression. Knock out his support, and you weaken his aggressive abilities and desires.
* An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.
* Refinement ‑‑ too much time and often too little progress.
* Never send an opponent's weapon into orbit to only have it re‑orbit back to you.
* Devote time with a particular move before deciding whether it does or does not work for you.
[font="]GREEN BELT Sayings[/font]
* Action with effect keeps an opponent in check.
* Accuracy must accompany speed, for it takes both to secure victory.
* Although belt colors show, it is no proof that you know.
* To desire something does not mean to accomplish it. To perspire for it makes accomplishment a reality.
* The man who knows "how" will always be a student, but the man who knows "why" will continue to be the instructor.
* When a man's mind is occupied with his own injury, he is not apt to think of retaliation.
* Principles of motion take precedent over the sequence of motion.
* Whether it is a big ship or a little ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.
* Sophistication is no more than simplicity compounded.
* Will‑power is the hammer that drives action.
[font="]3rd BROWN BELT Sayings[/font]
* There are only a set number of basic moves ‑‑ all else are variations of the same.
* What is truth for one may not be truth for another. The real truth for both lies in the moment of actual combat.
* When you exaggerate a move you can build an offense into a defense. When you condense a move the reverse holds true.
* You must earn what you learn.
* Environment involves what is around you, on you, and in you at the time of confrontation.
* While practice locks in our knowledge of basics, instinct is what makes it free.
* Mastery of the Art comes when the tiger is seen, but the dragon prevails.
* A leg that kicks can be hurt just as easily as it can hurt.
* The Kenpo system is based on the outer limits of simplicity and the starting point of complexity.
* Principles are the roots of a technique. Unless you have a thorough understanding of them your boundaries of limitations will always be restricted.
[font="]2nd BROWN BELT Sayings[/font]
* Strikes are intermissions of relaxation.
* The ears are the eyes of darkness.
* Transitions are the conjunctions that bridge techniques.
* Not until the brain shifts into gear with the body will the intangible become tangible.
* While the term approximately does not mean exactly, it can lead to exact findings applicable to you.
* Explosion from within is really implosion to without.
* Separating your direction can also mean separating your power.
* Never discard knowledge that is not applicable to you, but store it.
[font="]1st BROWN BELT Sayings[/font]
* Deprivation breeds appreciation.
* Desperation often hinders inspiration.
* Don't look for answers beyond your realm of understanding for
more often than not, many answers are before you that have
been overlooked.
* Logic, as it applies to the times, is the key.
* Motion is the language of the body; properly executed, it can
be used to save your life.
* Glory disrupts, power corrupts.
* There are three types of motion: MOTION, EMOTION and
COMMOTION. All three can be effective, depending upon how
they are used.
* Style is what an individual eventually molds for himself.
* Categorize your moves as either: useful, unuseful, or useless.
* First control the use of the weapon, then take control of the
weapon.
[font="]1st BLACK BELT Sayings[/font]
* A true martial artist is not one who fears change, but one who causes it to happen.
* As one gets older he learns to become a magician with motion; therein lies the secret of wisdom over youth.
* Creativity should be bound within the realm of true principles.
* There are no degrees of death, for it comes but once.
* Fear no man, but respect all.
* A true measure of humility is when you remain being what you are regardless of the success that you have become.
* Kenpo is for the man who has everything and wants to protect it.
* When one willingly and continuously boasts of his loyalty, anticipate toasting his departure.
* In motion, is motion that is often over looked.
* It is not important how long you have been IN the arts, but how long you have been AT it.
