Quote Originally Posted by frymantis
I know he is a genius and a very talented fighter, but it's because he can run over poeple that he does not really need to feint, trick, and etc, 99% of the time, he can just be very direct, so the last 10 techinque are very useless to him.
I don't think the last 10 stances are useless to XF. There clearly was "good" parts within these 10 trickery stances. The 3rd edition says that XZ and XF both took the "good" parts of the last 10 stances and incorparated them into the first 18 stances.