Bruce motherfucking Lee.
“I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once. But I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times.”
Fuckin legendary
“Be water, my friend”.
Having taken Tai Chi and having discussed Bruce Lee with the teacher rather frequently, I can honestly say that the distance involved with his hand and the other persons chest is literally just for show.
Also, having been tossed by a hit the teacher called “Soft Water” (ie, I was lifted up and sent backwards by at least five feet, landing on my arse and laughing from the sheer novelty of not having felt the initial hit) I can point out that those guys who end up in the chairs are probably blinking and thinking “but I didn’t even feel anything… how’d I end up back here?”