. . . For any worthwhile martial arts skill to be pragmatic, it has to be done live, otherwise it is of limited or no use in actual combat

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

. . In Old Karate, you learned your Art through pain. You learned quickly that your techniques had to be fast or powerful or both. If you did not embrace pain and it's lessons adequately, you simply did not survive

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Karate is many things, but mainly it's about synergy, ebb and flow, trial and error, action and reaction, rhythm of life, progress. . .

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Karate is not A religion, cult or dogma. It is incumbent on every generation of martial artists, to find the weaknesses of the previous generations, not to revere it. . .

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Karate training will make you strong and confident, but restraint will make you respected

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Karate without heart is just A corpse

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Most inherent beauties are hidden, as are precious stones in the rocks

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi