This is not a martial art.
This is TATE.
Breaths moving as one.
Hearts connected.
Neither too close,
nor too far.
Within that perfect maai,
there is beauty.
Maai is the Japanese art of space, timing, and connection.
If you study human nature long enough, you begin to see that most people aren’t malicious, they’re simply inconsistent, impulsive, or ruled by emotions they refuse to understand; once you accept this, disappointment turns into clarity instead of bitterness.