Calisthenics Unity

So i've been thinking lately that being super huge is whatever. It would be nice but i'd rather have a defined core and striations even if my overall body was not that sizeable. kind of like bruce lee in his hay day (maybe a little more muscle, he was pretty small, but powerful). Anyways I was wondering how I would obtain that. Should i just go on a calorie deficit and pray I don't lose all my muscle (of course i'd still be training during the cut). Is there a special amount of calories I cut that will make this work or should any deficit within a moderate cut work? any tips on this would help!

Note: bruce lee was at 6-7% body fat most of his career from what i've heard. I'd be happy with 10-12% i'm probably around 15-16% { I have visible abs but they are better in some lighting than others etc}

Also just want to say thanks for anyone and everyone who has helped me on my journey so far! It took a while but I am finally able to do muscle ups and dragon flies! the sky is the limit now!

There's no need to pray. Go on a moderate deficit (depends on the persons BMR and TDEE and overall metabolism, but 300-500 deficit is pretty slow to moderate), keep your workout intensity the same (although you will be able to do more stuff because you will weigh less), do some cardio if you want to, try to hit 1g of protein per lb of bodyweight (don't go for perfection because you will be fine with a range of 0.7-1g), and that's pretty much all you can do.

Few things about muscle loss:
Muscle loss happens if you have too big of a deficit and on top of that you do cardio (cardio will not burn muscle itself).
Muscle loss will happen if you don't eat enough protein to maintain it or even gain some muscle if you're a beginner-intermediate. The less time you've been training, the easier it will be to gain muscle on a cut.
Muscle loss will be negligible if you're going to go to 10-12%. It only happens seriously if you're trying to go to single digits.
There's a thing called muscle memory. You will regain your lost muscle a lot quicker than the first time you gained it. So if it took you 6 months to gain it, and you lost it all, it will take you 2 months to regain it or something like that. This works for people who are injured and take a break and lose some muscle.

awesome! that is some really solid advice gligor! you are super helpful on these forums and have some great insight on a lot of these questions. keep up the great work :) and thanks again for answering my question so quickly