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Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.
Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.
To hate or to not hate an enemy! It starts within your mind! Train to see all from the same perspective.
Be more attracted to the less aggressive side within the martial arts, control without destruction is the key.
Without some form of understanding of “ki”, the brain will always interpret technique from a physical perspective.
To care for others is the real martial art. To not care shows a disregard for yourself and the universe.
With shomen uchi ikkyo don’t meet at the top – the person may perceive this as you defending and change the attack.
The study of one’s posture within Aikido is as much spiritual as it is physical.
In ikkyo the hand on the elbow must travel in the same direction as the hand on the wrist.
Learning to receive holds like nikkyo, sankyo, kotegashi etc. Is the study of extending ki out of an arm that is constantly flexible.