There are no "secret" techniques
There is no such thing as a "secret" in martial arts. All a "secret" is is something you're not yet ready to learn. I'm not trying to get all Kung Fu Panda mystical on the subject either but the basic idea is this:
At any point along your training journey, there are aspects of your art that you simply won't yet understand given your current level of expertise. This doesn't make them "secrets", this just makes them more advanced than your level at that moment.
The reason why these "secrets" aren't shown to you yet is because either 1) they won't make any sense or be of any significance to you at the moment, or 2) learning them might actually be detrimental to your development and/or understanding.
In a teacher-student relationship, the teacher calling something a "secret" is equivalent to dangling the carrot. It's for the purpose of motivating you as the student to strive to improve yourself to be "ready" for it when the time comes. I'm not a fan of this approach because as the student, you are aware that the teacher is purposefully withholding knowledge from you, and you may or may not be given parameters around which when you'll be made privy to it.
From a more preferable practical developmental standpoint, "secrets" are only called as such because you don't know really know about them until they're actually made known to you (at which point they're no longer "secrets").
Often when you learn a "secret", it's generally a major paradigm shift in whatever it is. It's a "eureka!" or "duh" moment, when what seemed complicated before suddenly becomes (sometime ridiculously) simple. So "secrets" and your realizations of them are essentially tools that represent evolutionary, progressive steps in your growth as a martial artist.
An effective teacher will know how to show you what you need to know, when you need to know it - this is the "secret" to "secrets."
At any point along your training journey, there are aspects of your art that you simply won't yet understand given your current level of expertise. This doesn't make them "secrets", this just makes them more advanced than your level at that moment.
The reason why these "secrets" aren't shown to you yet is because either 1) they won't make any sense or be of any significance to you at the moment, or 2) learning them might actually be detrimental to your development and/or understanding.
In a teacher-student relationship, the teacher calling something a "secret" is equivalent to dangling the carrot. It's for the purpose of motivating you as the student to strive to improve yourself to be "ready" for it when the time comes. I'm not a fan of this approach because as the student, you are aware that the teacher is purposefully withholding knowledge from you, and you may or may not be given parameters around which when you'll be made privy to it.
From a more preferable practical developmental standpoint, "secrets" are only called as such because you don't know really know about them until they're actually made known to you (at which point they're no longer "secrets").
Often when you learn a "secret", it's generally a major paradigm shift in whatever it is. It's a "eureka!" or "duh" moment, when what seemed complicated before suddenly becomes (sometime ridiculously) simple. So "secrets" and your realizations of them are essentially tools that represent evolutionary, progressive steps in your growth as a martial artist.
An effective teacher will know how to show you what you need to know, when you need to know it - this is the "secret" to "secrets."