Capítulo 73: 071 Ritual (3)

Gale showed Xiaolin the basic stances one after another, while also explaining their advantages and disadvantages. Although these were basic stances, they were at the heart of all combat skills. You could implement them on the battlefield no matter what weapon you have.

"I don't want you to learn from my stances," Gale said after finishing his explanation. "Do you know why?"

"Because I'm not skillful enough to learn them?"

Gale shook his head. "You aren't absolutely wrong, but that's not the point," Gale said. "When you learn from another individual, it's pretty easy to take in flaws from their movies. You'll learn the moves, thinking they were the most perfect in the world, but unwittingly, you'll be practising the flawed moves.