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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.
If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.
It takes greater courage to lead by truth than to lead with fear and deception.
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.
Your brain doesn’t always understand what your eyes see. Training is the only option to unlock the many facets to the martial arts.
When performing Nikkyo to the wrist, enter and then apply the pressure to the wrist, don’t apply pressure to the wrist first.
Martial Arts should not focus entirely on the destruction of an enemy but in ways it can strive to embrace the enemy.
Do not view martial arts as mere self-defence! You could miss out on so much more they offer.
Aikido is a means of self-correction of Intention through reflection.
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.