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The use of aggression for the martial artist is to cover up there anger and or fear. This contributes to their miss-understanding to truly know themselves.
The use of aggression for the martial artist is to cover up there anger and or fear. This contributes to their miss-understanding to truly know themselves.
Learning to receive holds like nikkyo, sankyo, kotegashi etc. Is the study of extending ki out of an arm that is constantly flexible.
In ikkyo the hand on the elbow must travel in the same direction as the hand on the wrist.
There are constant messages guiding our paths through life. To hear we must stop our busy lives a moment and listen.
Look for a Sensei that can inspire you to search beyond technique. The longer you study the martial arts, clearer will be your understanding within the applied techniques.
Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.
The enlightened martial artist sees no enemy but the one within.
After a life time study in martial arts you may come to the realization that fighting or not fighting, is really the same.
When performing Nikkyo to the wrist, enter and then apply the pressure to the wrist, don’t apply pressure to the wrist first.
Compassion is a powerful word. In it contains all of what is martial and what is art. Yet without the years in its study one may not come to understand its true meaning.