Aikido is 70 percent atemi and 30 percent waza.
– – – reported inter alia by Gozo Shioda Shihan, Aikido Shugyo, p. 19
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On Atemi (2)
– – – by Kimbal Anderson Sensei
So one of the things we covered in the first Atemi Workshop was the idea of ‘a catalyst’. It’s basically something that tips a balance. If the universe is very perfectly balanced, a tiny thing can create a great change. For instance: how many molecules of a match catch on fire first? One. But you can melt steel from this tiny thing. If you keep it rolling. You also can reach Mars, as best I can tell. It’s pretty good what we can do with just a spark.
So you can think of atemi as a creative spark…
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