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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.
With shomen uchi ikkyo don’t meet at the top – the person may perceive this as you defending and change the attack.
Without some form of understanding of “ki”, the brain will always interpret technique from a physical perspective.
Love never destroys; hate in itself bears the scars of countless battles.
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 win over an enemy with love is a far greater reward than to conquer the enemy with hate.
Why do we study a lifetime of fighting within the martial arts? To seek a peaceful path to enlightenment.
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)
To have no compassion in your martial art, shows a cover up of our most natural instinct; “fear”.
In ikkyo the hand on the elbow must travel in the same direction as the hand on the wrist.