Experts look for the subtleties, while laymen enjoy the spectacle.
Whenever martial artists compete, the ordinary people watching mostly focus on how powerful a strike is, claiming it could split the stage by three inches, or how elegant a sword move appears, with the steps leaving afterimages. When it comes to the critical moment, it's usually about how someone couldn't dodge a move and was killed on the spot. While this is entertaining, if martial artists themselves only watched like this, they would accomplish nothing. The more one delves into martial arts, the more they set aside moves and techniques, focusing on the hands, arms, waist, legs, and spirit—these five elements. Every move involves these five elements, and watching them can be boring. Yet, just as most money-making ventures are tedious, it's because these five elements are unexciting that one can make progress.
