It is not aggression from the martial artist that you should fear! It’s the calm from the lack of aggression you should fear the most.
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!
To view one as an enemy is to see ourselves without having any wrong.
When performing Nikkyo to the wrist, enter and then apply the pressure to the wrist, don’t apply pressure to the wrist first.
Without some form of understanding of “ki”, the brain will always interpret technique from a physical perspective.
Aikido is a means of self-correction of Intention through reflection.
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.
To win over an enemy with love is a far greater reward than to conquer the enemy with hate.
Learning to receive holds like nikkyo, sankyo, kotegashi etc. Is the study of extending ki out of an arm that is constantly flexible.
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