More from Morihei Ueshiba

  1. Atemi accounts for 99% of Aikido.
  2. Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage.
  3. Kicking leaves you momentarily on one foot, and for that moment you are in a very weak position. If you were to be swept off your feet, you…
  4. In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.
  5. Aikido is Love.
  6. As your Bujutsu [Martial Technique] training approaches perfection you will be able to detect the suki [opening/weakness] [in your enemy's …
  7. True Budo is practiced not only to destroy an enemy, it must also make him, or his own will, gladly lose his spirit (seishin) to oppose you…
  8. True Budo is done for the sake of 'building peace'. Train every day so as to make peace between this spirit [Budo] and all things manifeste…

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