Like the figure skater or the jazz musician, it is the disciplined drills and constraints that eventually gives you the freedom. Very Yin and Yang. Whether it is the free skate or improvising with the saxophone, one must first practice the figure eights or the music scales. This concept directly applies to the martial arts.
Expression is not practiced through the practice of form, yet form is part of expression. The greater is not found in the lesser but the lesser is found within the greater. Having “no form” then does not mean having no “form”. Having “no form” evolves from having form. “No form” is the higher individual expression.
Bruce Lee