Gentle Way of
Self Defence
柔道 武術 自衛
Redlands Qld
Practical Self Defence
Suitable Older Adults
- Be Like Water -
- Go with the Flow -
- Relaxation & Calmness -
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Ethical Principles
of Gentle Way
Minimum Effort
Maximum Efficiency
Seiryoko Zenyo
The key component of the Ju
or yielding principle
found in the Japanese Internal Martial Arts
(Judo, Jujitsu and GoJu Ryu Karate)
in the Chinese internal styles of Kung Fu
(Tai Chi, Pa Qua & Xing I)
represent disciplined and
highly effective forms
of hand to hand fighting
- Seiryoko Zenyo -
Minimum Effort Maximum Efficiency
Dr Jigaro Kano
Mutual Respect &
Co-operation - Jita Kyoei
Training the mind and the body
should go hand in-hand
and not remain divided entities.
The expression Jita Kyoei reflects
the ideal that we train
half for ourselves and half for others.
Jita Kyoei - mutual benefit, respect
and co operation in helping each other
in the learning process - Dr Jigaro Kano
"Go with the flow - More power to you"
"Study the old, understand the new"
温故知新 On-Ko Chi-Shin
"The Art of Fighting, without Fighting"
Patrick McCarthy, Tino Ceberano
and Deane Lawler.
Japanese Proverb
One thousand days to learn,
ten thousand days to refine
Miyamoto Musashi
"Five Book of Rings"
Principles of Neutrality
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The hottest places in Hell are reserved
for those who in time of great moral crises
maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference,
which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. Chesterton
I swore never to be silent whenever and
wherever human beings endure
suffering and humiliation.
We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor,
never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor,
never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel
If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
If an elephant has its foot
on the tail of a mouse
and you say that you are neutral,
the mouse will not appreciate
your neutrality.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Not enough! - It is not enough
to prove something,
one also has to seduce
or elevate people to it.
That is why the man of knowledge
should learn
how to speak his wisdom:
and often in such a way
that it sounds like folly!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kenshin
謙 (ken) "modest" and
信 (shin) "truth"
No matter how you may excel
in the art of Te (Karate),
and in your scholastic endeavors,
nothing is more important
than your behaviour and your humanity
as observed in daily life.
Tei Junsuko (Nago Oyakata)
To win one hundred victories
in one hundred battles
is not the highest skill.
To subdue the enemy
without fighting
is the highest skill.
Sun Tsu The Art of War
There is no first strike in Karate.
Master Gichin Funakoshi
Karate begins and ends with courtesy
Master Gichin Funakoshi
Even after many years,
kata practice is never finished,
for there is always something
new to be learned
about executing a movement.
Master Shoshin Nagamine
Nothing in the world
can be compared to water
for its weak and yielding nature;
yet in attacking the hard and the strong
nothing proves better than it.
For there is no alternative to it.
The weak can overcome the strong and
the yielding can overcome the hard.
This all the world knows
but does not practice.
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
