{"quotes":[{"text":"On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["attacker","avenge","blood","budoka","bully","bushido","chin-na","consequences-life-lessons","control","culture","expert","familiarity-and-attitude","families","folklore","grapplinf-tudi","history","injury","karate","kenpo","kill","killing","kin","martial-arts","master","opportunity","people","pkinawa","punching","quotes","reaction","ryukyu","seize","sensei","shinshii","shorinjiryu","teach-a-lesson","technique","torite","warrior"],"id":1327,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"Real Martial Arts is Mathematics, Physics, Poetry; Meditation in Action.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["action","buddha","budo","combat-training","karate","kenpo","martial-arts","mathematics","meditation","okinawa","physics","poetry","real","sensei","shorinjiryu","wisdom"],"id":16913,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"Karate is many things, but mainly it's about synergy, ebb and flow, trial and error, action and reaction, rhythm of life, progress . . .","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["action","boldness-and-attitude","ebbs-and-flow","essence-of-things","fighting-spirit","karate","kenpo","martial-arts","meaning-of-life","okinawa","progress","reaction","rhythm","sensei","shorinjiryu","synergy","trial-and-error","wisdom"],"id":29027,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["bushido","character","common-good","decency","dojo","execution","fighting-spirit","integrity","justice","karate","kenpo","man","martial-arts","okinawa","sensei","shorinjiryu","techniques","truth"],"id":46123,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"Patience and Forgiveness are at the heart of A warrior's success, they help engender necessary intervals of space and time to evaluate difficult encounters.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["battle","calming-the-mind","combat","difficulties","forgiveness","heart","heart","improvement","interval","karamiti","karate","lethal-pragmatist","life-lessons","necessary","okinawa","old-style","patience","peace-of-mind","planning","practical","pressure","quotes","ryukyu","shinshii","shorinjiryu","solutions","space","strategy","success-in-life","thinking-positive","time","victory","warrior","way-of-life","wisdom"],"id":104622,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"To react, is to be A slave to someone else's actions. Sometimes, A warrior is faced with the decision to strike pre-emptively, trusting his intuition, wisdom and years of training.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["action","karate","pre-emptive","about-life","reaction","shorinjiryu","slave","strike"],"id":112225,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["action","boxing","budo","calming-the-mind","combat","enemy","fighting-spirit","intentions","karate","martial-arts","okinawa","refrain","sensei","shorinjiryu","speaking-your-mind","strategy","threat","warrior"],"id":147977,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":". . . There are two types of fighters, the former strike all over the place hoping one would land, the latter, assured of their prowess and capabilities, hit once and destroy the opponent's desire to continue the fight.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["assured","attitude","boxing","capabilities","close-quarters","combat","continue","defeated","desire","desires","destroy","expert","fighter","former","hit","kenpo","latter","martial-arts","motobu","okinawa","once","precision","prowess","punching","shorinjiryu","soke","strike","will","willingness"],"id":170903,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":". . In Old Karate, you learned you Art through pain. You learned quickly that your techniques had to be fast or powerful or both. If you did not embrace pain and it's lessons adequately, you simply did not survive.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["assailent","bo","boxing","combat-training","defence","fast","fighting","jutsu","karate","kobudo","kobudo","kung-fu","martial-arts","okinawa","old-karate","pain","powerful","prowess","quotes","ryukyu","sensei","shorinjiryu","tanbo","teacher","teachers-and-learners","teaching","tegumi","toifa","torite","tudi","wrestling-practice"],"id":172520,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"True Martial Arts is universal, simple and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["attack","battle","boxer","buds","bushido","combat","complex","defense-expert","dojo","fighting-spirit","karate","kobudo","life","martial-arts-training","okinawa","protection","reality","sensei","shorinjiryu","simple","teacher"],"id":173546,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}