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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.
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.
Don’t be attracted only to powerful techniques within a martial art you do see, but more in the peaceful path of what you don’t see.
The true martial artist has a caring spirit that sees all as one.
Why do we bear arms at the slightest miscommunication? Our relationship with our ego craves always to be right.
The study of one’s posture within Aikido is as much spiritual as it is physical.
When performing Nikkyo to the wrist, enter and then apply the pressure to the wrist, don’t apply pressure to the wrist first.
To view one as an enemy is to see ourselves without having any wrong.
Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.
A martial artist should always train the mind as well as the body, but not always moving in synchronization.
Without some form of understanding of “ki”, the brain will always interpret technique from a physical perspective.