Yi Chao Shen - You can conquer the world with just "ONE" technique.

Having heard people be famous by his "technique" and have not heard anybody got famous by his "principle".

George Bush

How about Newton?

Maciej, that's only if that one technique embodies the correct principle

Don't forget, observers can see your technique, they can't 'see' the principles behind the technique.

Don't forget Tim in that list. Tim is just like my grade school Principal. He had good technique based on principles which proved more often than not, quite painful and effective.

But Bagua, taiji, and hsing yi although share the same principles, rely on different techniques correct?

That is incorrect, the three big internals share SOME principles in common byt each also has principles unique to that art. AFAIK

maciej's post was copied directly from the emptyflower board:

http://www.emptyflower.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=Xing;action=display;num=1071365844;start=18

Maciej does that a lot. S/he has a hard-on for plagerism, insecurity out the ass, and a penchant for asking what Tim thinks about someone else's opinion constantly.

He or she would be a decent poster aside from that.

If you can do "one" technique better than anybody else on this planet then you are the master of that technique. Anybody on earth want to learn that technique will have to come to you.

does it matter if you are the best on the planet at one technique and no one knows of you?

hardly the point

Is SC_Guy John Wang from Emptyflower? I think so. Welcome.

apply the correct principles to a trained technique and youre not far from perfection.