never bring your assumptions to a knife fight: advice from "no-one important"

The Traceless Warrior is a blog written by a man named Mushtaq Ali, who has been teaching "an obscure martial art that has its origins in Indonesia called Pencak Silat" for twenty-five years. It's only been online for a few days but it has already started intriguing me. I especially liked this post about a spar in which he schooled some cocky young guy:

"How do you overcome the limitation? Free your body and breath, balance drills with sparring with an uncooperative opponent, learn to let breath power movement, live at the level of constant suprise as often as you can so that you can learn to be comfortable with it."