‘BE WATER’
Nov 25, 2021
3 minutes
THERE is a tattoo etched on Teófimo López’s forearm. ‘Be water, my friend’ the thin words read. The phrase come from Bruce Lee. “Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup,” the legendary martial artist originally said. “You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” It’s a mantra that López, who thinks seriously about his style of fighting and his approach to the form, uses to inspire him.
“We all are
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