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Martial arts are not studied to enhance aggression, but to train the spirit to reveal flaws for ones own self correction.
Martial arts are not studied to enhance aggression, but to train the spirit to reveal flaws for ones own self correction.
To show compassion is one of the highest values. Strive within your martial art to make this your priority.
While performing the shomen uchi Ikkyo technique you must enter in first then raise your arms, not raise your arms then enter in.
The study of one’s posture within Aikido is as much spiritual as it is physical.
Your brain doesn’t always understand what your eyes see. Training is the only option to unlock the many facets to the martial arts.
Why is there so much energy given to the art of war? The art of peace requires so little!
To hate is to know love. Strive to love over hate, if we are all to survive.
Have patience while walking the path of Aikido there really is no final destination. Study sincerely in the moment for today is what matters. Tomorrow will come all too soon. Reflect in the journey this is the ultimate goal.
In ikkyo the hand on the elbow must travel in the same direction as the hand on the wrist.
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.