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The true martial artist has a caring spirit that sees all as one.
The true martial artist has a caring spirit that sees all as one.
With shomen uchi ikkyo don’t meet at the top – the person may perceive this as you defending and change the attack.
There really are no throws in Aikido only the art of leading your partners ki with your ki in a unified direction. Anything other than this opposes harmony and will inevitably be a throw.
Love never destroys; hate in itself bears the scars of countless battles.
You can own a sword, display a sword or collect to sell swords. But the way of the samurai sword is only revealed to the user.
To train a life time acquiring skills of self-defence only to seek retribution in the destruction of others becomes a wasted journey; a path of self-destruction.
Those who only seek destruction within the martial arts are disconnected to themselves and all fragile life.
The enlightened martial artist sees no enemy but the one within.
While performing the shomen uchi Ikkyo technique you must enter in first then raise your arms, not raise your arms then enter in.
Why is there so much energy given to the art of war? The art of peace requires so little!