“Every day, I practiced with bokken and jo. I did the 22-count kata that Koichi Tohei Sensei taught. I practiced pokes, blocks, and cuts—hundreds and hundreds of them. I practiced my breathing.
It’s surprising how many people don’t know how to breathe. When under stress, many people stop breathing. But, if you can’t breathe, you can’t do anything. If you do learn to breathe deeply—and learn to breathe deeply naturally—you don’t stop breathing. If you can poke, block, and cut, you can apply this to all other aspects of Aikido.
I would also go to Milwaukee to teach and train with the students, and to Chicago, training with the instructors who were there then–Hirata Sensei, I. Takahashi Sensei, and Akira Tohei Sensei.”
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