Your brain doesn’t always understand what your eyes see. Training is the only option to unlock the many facets to the martial arts.

If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.

Treat others in the way you would like to be treated and a harmony shall exist.

Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.

To understand Aikido’s many layers-consistency is the “ki”

To live only in today or the past leaves no room for tomorrow.

Within the martial arts, while competition in the form of sport exists, the art of Budo, a way of love may never be truly understood.

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.

Why do we study a lifetime of fighting within the martial arts? To seek a peaceful path to enlightenment.

To understand compassion one must first live compassionately.