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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.
To show compassion is one of the highest values. Strive within your martial art to make this your priority.
All techniques must blend with your partner. If felt by their physical they will be resisted by their physical.
Respect should always be offered to the opponent first. Often this can lead an attitude of dis-harmony into a peaceful resolution.
To have no compassion in your martial art, shows a cover up of our most natural instinct; “fear”.
Why do we study a lifetime of fighting within the martial arts? To seek a peaceful path to enlightenment.
Aikido is a means of self-correction of Intention through reflection.
The study of one’s posture within Aikido is as much spiritual as it is physical.
To view one as an enemy is to see ourselves without having any wrong.
In ikkyo the hand on the elbow must travel in the same direction as the hand on the wrist.