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Visualizing an opponent is a good mental exercise for learning how to focus a maneuver to a specific point in space. By visualizing, one can pretend to be blocking an incoming attack, giving the blocks more urgency and focus. But, as in all American Kenpo forms, there is no intention for there to be an imaginary opponent. Rather, that the form demonstrates: the rules and principles of motion, that everything has a reverse and an opposite, and gives and example. Visualizing an opponent can detract from this goal and lead the practitioner into treating the form as a preordained imaginary fight, rather than a demonstration of motion study and analysis.