AIM High

A martial artist, regardless of style, must master a variety of basic skills and methods, and must be flexible to meet the circumstances...as the great O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba put it, "depending on the circumstances, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space."

We need to be flexible in order to SURVIVE- a potentially dangerous encounter or situation, and the big test- SURVIVE LIFE...but SURVIVAL is only the first level...beyond this is growing as a person, call that what you will- Self Realization, Enlightenment, Union With God...my teacher had a simple slogan which encapsulates this, " Survive and THRIVE in your world."

Aim High.