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Your brain doesn’t always understand what your eyes see. Training is the only option to unlock the many facets to the martial arts.
Your brain doesn’t always understand what your eyes see. Training is the only option to unlock the many facets to the martial arts.
In ikkyo the hand on the elbow must travel in the same direction as the hand on the wrist.
The study of being held strong reinforces & teaches Koichi Tohei’s 4 principles of Aikido. Relax completely (Physical) Keep one point (Spiritual) keep weight underside (Physical) Extend ki (Spiritual)
As there are opposites such as, positive and negative, yin and yang, war and peace. We should always strive to seek the art of peace.
We are all of this earth, do not fight or lay greed. The earth is plentiful if we can all learn to share it.
To train a life time acquiring skills of self-defence only to seek retribution in the destruction of others becomes a wasted journey; a path of self-destruction.
To hate is to know love. Strive to love over hate, if we are all to survive.
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.
It takes greater courage to lead by truth than to lead with fear and deception.