tricks and secret techniques

“Thinking in terms of tricks and secret techniques is not compatible at all with the true mind-set needed for combat.” - Peyton Quinn, Book of Five Rings: Explained in Plain English

Comment: So many assume the entire discipline is made up of particular skills that require highly developed motor skills and the mystically emotionally satisfying fictional belief in the ultimate secret techniques guaranteed to get the job done under combat/fighting/defensive circumstances. I will stand over here to watch and wait for those special tricks and secret techniques to kick in and stop the threat.