A practitioner whose knowledge is such that he can analyze, dissect, and assemble techniques. With this ability he not only gains a greater understanding of their principles and counterparts, but can teach as well. - Ed Parker Sr.'s Encyclopedia of Kenpo
"My main purpose in breaking things down, and that's why even during a course of a technique I want you to visualize the principle that occur during the course of your actions. Because if you understand principle but most importantly the tailoring of the principles, then what I wish for you to become (as I pointed out to Frank Trejo over there) is to make Mechanics of Motion out of it. Which means you can then go into motions, dissect it, take a part and put it back together again so that it works. Hopefully when you are doing up with this you end up becoming engineers of motion, where by you can go in there and say, "hey?" If I make this slight modification I can do this, this and that."
-Ed Parker Sr.
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