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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.
To have no compassion in your martial art, shows a cover up of our most natural instinct; “fear”.
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.
Respect should always be offered to the opponent first. Often this can lead an attitude of dis-harmony into a peaceful resolution.
Why do we bear arms at the slightest miscommunication? Our relationship with our ego craves always to be right.
To view one as an enemy is to see ourselves without having any wrong.
A martial artist should not be measured on their ability to hurt or destroy an enemy but how they can change aggression into the art of peace.
With shomen uchi ikkyo don’t meet at the top – the person may perceive this as you defending and change the attack.
Love never destroys; hate in itself bears the scars of countless battles.