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Recommended Reading List |
| Although there are many good books available
about martial arts, we have found these three books to be
some of the most useful and insightful.
These selections will add to your martial arts
understanding and training.
We recommend that all aikidoka read each one of these
books.
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-A. Westbrook and O. Ratti
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One of the most comprehensive books ever written
on Aikido. Includes
combat, defense theory, and neutralization techniques.
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-K. Ueshiba
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Instead of just detailing techniques, this book
revels the essence of Aikido – the philosophy of unifying
mind, body, and ki through Aikido and character development.
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-J. Hyams
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Composed of insightful anecdotes relating the
author’s experience with world famous masters such as:
Bruce Lee, Ed Parker, Jim Lau, and Gichin Funakoshi.
This book gives great insight into the proper martial
art mind set and attitude.
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