Persimmon Wind Quotes

“To be firm without a complementary flexibility is to be a corpse. Conservative self-confidence without a liberal broad-mindedness becomes chauvinism, pedantry.”
― Dave Lowry, Persimmon Wind: A Martial Artist's Journey in Japan

“Adherence to established values, an affinity to creativity. Perseverance and innovation. The dualities of a hardness like stone and the pliancy of the wind-bent bamboo, these twin qualities flux and twine through the persona of the master and give him the presence and personality by which we know him.”
― Dave Lowry, Persimmon Wind: A Martial Artist's Journey in Japan