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While performing the shomen uchi Ikkyo technique you must enter in first then raise your arms, not raise your arms then enter in.
While performing the shomen uchi Ikkyo technique you must enter in first then raise your arms, not raise your arms then enter in.
Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.
Learning to be soft when intimidated is the key to progress. If the ego will not yield to the attackers physical aggression a conflict of the physical to co-exist takes place. This restricts the true concepts of Aikido to be realised.
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.
To win over an enemy with love is a far greater reward than to conquer the enemy with hate.
If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.
In ikkyo the hand on the elbow must travel in the same direction as the hand on the wrist.
There are constant messages guiding our paths through life. To hear we must stop our busy lives a moment and listen.
To view one as an enemy is to see ourselves without having any wrong.