Masaaki Hatsumi Quotes - Page 2

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• You've got to learn to utilize the space (between you and
  your opponent). Distancing is very important.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Space, Important, Opponents

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• From now on you must strive to cut out unnecessary
  movement. Waste in movement is wrong and will get you
  killed.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Cutting, Movement, Waste

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• Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Art, Past, Focus

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• Breathe life into the weapon, don't take life away from it.
  Keep walking, because walking is life.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Weapons, Breathe, Walking

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• You can only understand if you've had the technique done to
  you. It's like food. You can't describe the taste, but if you've
  tasted it, you know what it is. You have to personally
  experience it to understand.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Technique, Done, Taste

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• You are not punching them; it is your going into kamae that
  punches them.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Punching

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• Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use
  this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until
  now.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Ideas, Technique, Use

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• Don't think that any one technique is the end. there is no end.
  There is no perfect technique. Just when you think you've got
  them, you're dead because you didn't.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Thinking, Perfect, Technique

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• Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice
  since there are lots of good and respectable people in the
  world.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Men, Should Have, People

  Masaaki Hatsumi (1988). “Essence of Ninjutsu”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• Remember that for every technique you think you can fall back
  on, there is a counter for it, or there are times when it cannot
  be used. When real battle comes, you must remember that
  some things will not be applicable. Don't think that any one
  technique is quintessential.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• You must be on your toes constantly, yet be relaxed.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Toes, Martial Arts, Relaxed

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• Budo is simply the study of the best ways to kill.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Way, Study, Best Way

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• Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the
  first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their
  blade, the length of their arms, etc.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Encounters, Needs, Use

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• There are times to kill and times not to kill. Please bear this in
  mind with grave consideration.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Mind, Bears, Consideration

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• If you do not let go of thinking about forms, you will not understand what I am showing.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Letting Go, Thinking, Form

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