“I chose and took my name on the day that Kwan Chie told me I was to be the Society’s new head Wushu instructor. I felt it had to be then, for it was the first time I would take a title which truly defined me. A couple of months ago I was the leader of a small village of nomads. I anchored them, inspired them to prosper, and I did love that role, but the business of government never suited me so closely as the pursuit of philosophy and principle -- rooted in action. This is what White Face Wushu is all about.

“First, let us discuss Wushu. In my view, there are two parts: the ‘how’ and the ‘why.’ The ‘why’ is more important. Sometimes I look out my window and I think about the world, and I wonder why, in a time when so many different arts are emerging, arts so fundamentally based in the mind, so thoroughly based upon control, grace and balance, why are those people who are even more capable of such fundamentals, people in even greater need of such arts, shunned away from those arts? Why are they forbidden by some unwritten divine law, by some unquestioned sanctified rule, to be set below and deemed incapable of being human and having human strength? Why, when they are even more capable of such strength? More strength than any known to man -- because man only has man to hold as an example.

“‘Why’ is no problem for us. Being right makes ‘why’ very easy. Never forget the why. Why you do, speak and act is how well you do, speak and act. Why is behind your control, grace and balance. It is your mind. We study why as hard as we practice how, so we never forget.

“‘How’ is the result. It is the action. I’ll put down a few basics right now to wet your appetite, but when the tears you cry at night fall for all those women out there in the world to whom our principles so apply, then you’ll realize that these basics are perfect extensions of what we represent. Specific to our bodies, to our strengths, to our philosophy. And then, you won’t have to think about ‘how’ anymore -- you’ll just think about ‘why’…”