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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.
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.
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.
Without some form of understanding of “ki”, the brain will always interpret technique from a physical perspective.
Respect should always be offered to the opponent first. Often this can lead an attitude of dis-harmony into a peaceful resolution.
The study of one’s posture within Aikido is as much spiritual as it is physical.
While performing the shomen uchi Ikkyo technique you must enter in first then raise your arms, not raise your arms then enter in.
After a life time study in martial arts you may come to the realization that fighting or not fighting, is really the same.
To seek the path of ego within the martial arts will seed jealousy and corruption.
There are constant messages guiding our paths through life. To hear we must stop our busy lives a moment and listen.
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.