More from Morihei Ueshiba

  1. In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.
  2. As your Bujutsu [Martial Technique] training approaches perfection you will be able to detect the suki [opening/weakness] [in your enemy's …
  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. 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…
  5. Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage.
  6. 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…
  7. I am the Universe.
  8. When facing the realm of life and death in the form of an enemy's sword, one must be firmly settled in mind and body, and not at all intimi…

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