“Many have asked me why Ki Rata insists on flashiness. There are certainly more conservative styles that focus on efficient and useful practice of internal force. The answer is simple: the lower ranked techniques must be slow enough to be observed by the naked eye, and ferocious enough to completely obliterate thought of opposition. They are exceedingly gentle, and aimed at the conservation of life for those remaining. If you were targeted by a higher ranked technique, you would have not have time to even feel fear.”

– Musko Reeve, Manual of Hands and Feet , pp 405